Harold Urey
Harold Urey (born April 29, 1893, Walkerton, United States; died 1981), was an American physical chemist. Urey's honours include Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Davy Medal and Willard Gibbs Award.
Harold Urey’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Snake, with 
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Harold Urey’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Harold in the U.S.?
#993
US rank in 2025
~554,280
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Harold’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
White · Blush · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Harold, according to the stars
Core essence
Harold is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Harold is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Harold wants to be loved
Harold wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Harold is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Harold creates
How Harold makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Harold creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Harold is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Harold is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Harold scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Harold's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Harold sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Harold Urey's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 29, 1893, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Water Snake
Water SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Harold Urey was born on April 29, 1893, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Harold Urey's birth date, April 29, 1893, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Harold’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Harold Urey's date-only chart is Venus opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Harold Urey combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Harold’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Harold Urey, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Harold’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 1.1° orb
Harold’s affections and growth act as one.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.2° to 0.5° orb
Harold’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunoppositionUranus0.4° to 1.4° orb
Harold’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.6° to 0.8° orb
Harold’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.9° to 1.6° orb
Harold’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto1.2° orb
Harold’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrinePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
Harold’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb
Harold’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
Harold’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextilePluto3.7° to 4.7° orb
Harold’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.1° to 6.1° orb
Harold’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Harold’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironLeo 27°30′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Harold performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresGemini 17°05′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Harold feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosPisces 17°29′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Harold is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaLeo 7°40′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Harold at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 2°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Harold leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 0.7°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.2°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.2°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Harold’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Harold is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Harold’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.1°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.7°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 2.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Harold Urey, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Harold’s cards
Every card is computed from April 29, 1893, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Harold Urey, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Harold’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q179777, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Flickr: ENERGY.GOV - Unknown photographer. Restored by Creator:Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Harold Urey’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Harold Urey?
- Harold Urey was a Taurus: born April 29, 1893, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Snake.
- What was Harold Urey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 29, 1893 birth.
- What time was Harold Urey born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Harold Urey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 29, 1893 birth date.
- What was Harold Urey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 29, 1893 birth date.
- Where was Harold Urey's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Harold Urey's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
