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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Pig, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Harvey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Harvey J. Alter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 24° Pisces 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.
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
Harvey’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 4.9° orb
Harvey’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
Harvey’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.0° to 7.6° orb
Harvey’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn6.0° to 6.5° orb
Harvey’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 16°15′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Harvey turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresVirgo 23°25′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Harvey caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 18°41′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Harvey is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 12°20′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Harvey is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 16°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Harvey exacting with themselves first.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Harvey’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Harvey is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Harvey’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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Harvey J. Alter, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Harvey’s cards
Every card is computed from September 12, 1935, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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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
No birth time is on public record for Harvey J. Alter, 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
Harvey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5677307, 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.
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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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Pig.
- 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 time was Harvey J. Alter 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 is Harvey J. Alter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 12, 1935 birth date.
- What is Harvey J. Alter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 12, 1935 birth date.
- 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.
