Harvey J. Alter
Harvey J. Alter (born September 12, 1935, New York City, United States), aged 91, is an American medical researcher. Alter's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award and Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award.
Harvey J. Alter’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Harvey
Harvey J. Alter’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Harvey in the U.S.?
#251
US rank in 2025
~128,792
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,958 American boys and 10 girls named Harvey in 1935: 99th among boys and 2,815th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Harvey’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Harvey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Harvey apart
The Public Health Service Distinguished Service Medal came in 1977, when Harvey J. Alter was 42.
The schooling ran through University of Rochester.
Wikipedia files Harvey J. Alter under American medical researchers, University of Rochester alumni and National Institutes of Health people.
Stanisław Lem (1921) and Paul Walker (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Rochester
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2020), Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (2000) and Canada Gairdner International Award (2013)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 57
What the chart says
Harvey, according to the stars
Core essence
Harvey notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Harvey is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Harvey is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Harvey needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Harvey wants to be loved
Harvey wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Harvey and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Harvey creates
How Harvey makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Harvey creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Harvey is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Harvey is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Harvey runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Harvey's birth date. Working below.
Where Harvey sits
Six lines
Harvey’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Harvey J. Alter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 85.0° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 20° down.
How unusual Harvey's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · 1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets
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 →Harvey J. Alter at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Harvey J. Alter's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 12, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Harvey J. Alter was born on September 12, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Harvey J. Alter's birth date, September 12, 1935, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Harvey’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Harvey J. Alter's date-only chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Harvey J. Alter combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Harvey’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 24° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb
Harvey’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMarstrinePluto0.1° to 0.8° orb
Harvey’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.8° orb
Harvey’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune2.0° to 2.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.0° to 7.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn6.0° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Harvey’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 16°15′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 23°25′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 18°41′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 12°20′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 16°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.2°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.3°
- Chiron square Sun 2.7°
Harvey’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Harvey’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.8°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
More people like Harvey
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Born in United States
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- Stanisław Lem1921
- Paul Walker1973
- Jesse Owens1913
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- David Møller WolfeNorwegian footballer (born 2002)
- Sander TangvikNorwegian association football goalkeeper (born 2002)
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Other Gilded Healers
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Famous people with Life Path 3
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Harvey’s cards
Computed from September 12, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Harvey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5677307 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Harvey J. Alter’s chart
- How old is Harvey J. Alter?
- Harvey J. Alter is 91 years old, born September 12, 1935 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Harvey J. Alter?
- Harvey J. Alter is a Virgo: born September 12, 1935, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Harvey J. Alter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 12, 1935 birth.
- What is Harvey J. Alter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Harvey J. Alter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Harvey J. Alter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Harvey J. Alter's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
