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, Chinese zodiac was Water Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Harold
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
Harold ranked 34th among boys and 1,342nd among girls in 1893, the year of this birth, with 566 American boys and 6 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Harold’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
6
Soul Urge · being needed
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Harold’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Harold apart
Anggun (1974) and Uma Thurman (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Harold sits
Six lines
Harold’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Harold Urey
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Walkerton on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Walkerton that night
Computed for 41.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Walkerton at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.6° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Walkerton on any night.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.
How unusual Harold's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Taurus · A leaning bowl
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.6° to 0.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.9° to 1.6° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto1.2° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn5.1° to 6.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 27°30′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 17°05′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 17°29′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 7°40′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 2°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Harold’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Harold’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on April 29
- Anggun1974
- Uma Thurman1970
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Fellow Yang Fire day masters
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- Colin KaepernickAmerican football player (born 1987)
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Other Radiant Lightkeepers
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Famous people with Life Path 9
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Harold’s cards
Computed from April 29, 1893. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Harold’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q179777 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Flickr: ENERGY.GOV - Unknown photographer. Restored by Creator:Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Harold Urey at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Harold Urey.
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.
- 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 was Harold Urey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Harold Urey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
