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Henry Taube

Henry Taube (born November 30, 1915, Neudorf, Canada; died 2005), was a Canadian-born American chemist. Taube's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, National Order of Scientific Merit and National Medal of Science.

Henry Taube’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Henry Taube’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Healer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Henry in the U.S.?

#5

US rank in 2025

~773,564

Americans share it since 1880

2025

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1915, Henry came 14th among boys and 779th among girls, carried by 10,138 American boys and 72 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Henry’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

5

Soul Urge · freedom

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Henry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid

Gold · Rose-gold · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1915, 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 Henry apart

Henry Taube took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955, at 40.

Luther College and University of Saskatchewan shaped the training.

The family line: raised one child.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Henry Taube: People from Neudorf, Saskatchewan, Luther College (Saskatchewan) alumni and Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Winston Churchill (1874) and Ben Stiller (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Luther College, University of Saskatchewan and University of California, Berkeley
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1983), National Medal of Science (1976) and Priestley Medal (1985)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
59

What the chart says

Henry, according to the stars

Core essence

Henry is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Henry is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Henry is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Henry needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Henry wants to be loved

Henry wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Henry and watch them fall for you again.

How Henry creates

How Henry makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Henry creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Henry is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Henry 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Henry fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Henry's birth date. Working below.

Where Henry sits

Six lines

Henry’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Henry

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Henry

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Henry

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Henry

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Henry

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Henry

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Neudorf on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Henry’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 80.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 56° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Neudorf that night

Computed for 50.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Almach stood nearest the zenith over Neudorf at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.8° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 50.7°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −39.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Neudorf on any night.

The Moon, 37% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Neudorf, Canada

The death is recorded at Palo Alto, Santa Clara County in 2005.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Henry Taube: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Henry's chart is

Chart pattern score

25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Earth planets · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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Henry Taube in 15 seconds

Sagittarius Sun

Blunt, cheerful, gone by morning.

Henry Taube's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 30, 1915, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Wood Rabbit

Gentle, and never cornered.

Henry Taube was born on November 30, 1915, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Henry Taube's birth date, November 30, 1915, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Henry’s chart

Henry’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.3° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.2° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 3° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.4° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.5° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 4.6° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.9° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 5° orbSun in Sagittarius · 7°30′☉7°Moon in Virgo · 17°46′☽17°Mercury in Scorpio · 29°04′☿29°Venus in Sagittarius · 27°31′♀27°Mars in Leo · 24°29′♂24°Jupiter in Pisces · 19°03′♃19°Saturn in Cancer · 15°35′ · retrograde♄℞15°Uranus in Aquarius · 12°23′♅12°Neptune in Leo · 2°30′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Cancer · 2°45′ · retrograde♇℞2°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.1° to 7.7° orb

    Henry’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableVenustrineMars2.6° to 3.5° orb

    Henry’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune2.7° to 4.2° orb

    Henry’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn3.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars4.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune4.5° to 5.5° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto4.6° to 5.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 3.8° to 15.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 4.3° to 16.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileUranusorb from 4.4° to 5.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Henry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 18°07′

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 19°09′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 28°23′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 9°49′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 21°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.9°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 0.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 2.3°
  • Chiron trine Saturn 2.5°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.8°

Henry’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☽ Moon3 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Henry’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus semi-square Uranus 0.1°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
  • Venus biquintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.5°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°

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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained

Henry’s cards

Computed from November 30, 1915. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Healer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Henry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235983 (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.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Henry Taube.

Quick answers about Henry Taube’s chart

What zodiac sign was Henry Taube?
Henry Taube was a Sagittarius: born November 30, 1915, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Henry Taube's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 30, 1915 birth.
What was Henry Taube's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Henry Taube's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Henry Taube's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Henry Taube's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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