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Henry Way Kendall

Henry Way Kendall (born December 9, 1926, Boston, United States; died 1999), was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Kendall's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Panofsky Prize and Leo Szilard Lectureship Award.

Henry Way Kendall’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Henry Way Kendall’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Healer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Henry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange

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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 needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Henry needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Henry creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Henry is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Henry is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Henry's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Henry sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Henry

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

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

Dedicate a star to Henry Way Kendall

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston 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, 84.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 13.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Henry Way Kendall's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 9, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Fire Tiger

Leads by moving.

Henry Way Kendall was born on December 9, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Henry Way Kendall's birth date, December 9, 1926, 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 Henry’s chart

Henry’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Henry Way Kendall, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.4° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.1° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 3.7° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.8° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4.2° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.2° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 4.4° orbSun in Sagittarius · 16°53′☉16°Moon in Aquarius · 13°10′☽13°Mercury in Scorpio · 26°35′☿26°Venus in Sagittarius · 21°19′♀21°Mars in Taurus · 4°34′♂4°Jupiter in Aquarius · 22°14′♃22°Saturn in Sagittarius · 0°48′♄0°Uranus in Pisces · 25°32′♅25°Neptune in Leo · 26°58′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Cancer · 15°25′ · retrograde♇℞15°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune0.1° to 0.7° orb

    Henry’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter0.4° to 1.5° orb

    Henry’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus0.8° to 1.4° orb

    Henry’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareUranus3.6° to 4.8° orb

    Henry’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb

    Henry’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.9° to 4.4° orb

    Henry’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.1° to 4.6° orb

    Henry’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus4.3° to 4.6° orb

    Henry’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb

    Henry’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune5.0° to 6.3° orb

    Henry’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.2° to 5.3° orb

    Henry’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Henry’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°56′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Henry may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 16°13′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Henry is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 13°01′ (moves 0.55° 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. Henry is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 5°03′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Henry is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 20°27′ (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 Henry 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.

  • Ceres trine Pluto 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.9°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.0°

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°).

Henry’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. 1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Henry is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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 Henry’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, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Venus, SaturnThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Neptune, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Mars quintile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.4°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 1.5°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.7°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Henry Way Kendall, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Henry’s cards

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The World

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The Tidal Healer

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Henry Way Kendall, 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

Henry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190495, 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 Tom Frost, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Henry Way Kendall at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

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 Henry Way Kendall’s chart

What zodiac sign was Henry Way Kendall?
Henry Way Kendall was a Sagittarius: born December 9, 1926, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
What was Henry Way Kendall's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 9, 1926 birth.
What time was Henry Way Kendall 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 Henry Way Kendall's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the December 9, 1926 birth date.
What was Henry Way Kendall's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 9, 1926 birth date.
Where was Henry Way Kendall's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Henry Way Kendall's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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