Herbert Spencer Gasser
Herbert Spencer Gasser (born July 5, 1888, Platteville, United States; died 1963), was an American physiologist. Gasser's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Foreign Member of the Royal Society and doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris.
Herbert Spencer Gasser’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rat, with 
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Herbert Spencer Gasser’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
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US rank in 2025
~229,383
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
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Herbert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Herbert, according to the stars
Core essence
Herbert feels the room before entering it. The core of Herbert is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Herbert, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Herbert wants to be loved
Herbert wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Herbert gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Herbert creates
How Herbert makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Herbert creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Herbert is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Herbert is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Herbert leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Herbert fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Herbert's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Herbert Spencer Gasser's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 5, 1888, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Earth Rat
Earth RatResourceful is an understatement.
Herbert Spencer Gasser was born on July 5, 1888, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Herbert Spencer Gasser's birth date, July 5, 1888, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Herbert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Herbert Spencer Gasser's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Herbert Spencer Gasser combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Herbert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Herbert Spencer Gasser, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.0° to 6.9° orb
Herbert’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareUranus0.2° to 1.5° orb
Herbert’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareUranus0.4° to 1.3° orb
Herbert’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
Herbert’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.5° to 1.8° orb
Herbert’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareMars2.4° to 3.4° orb
Herbert’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.0° orb
Herbert’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
Herbert’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.7° to 6.3° orb
Herbert’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareUranus6.0° to 6.6° orb
Herbert’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Herbert’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.
⚷ ChironCancer 4°53′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Herbert is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresGemini 21°30′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Herbert feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosGemini 8°51′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Herbert is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaLibra 0°16′ (moves 0.27° 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. Herbert is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 16°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Herbert is read as immovable on those points.
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 Mars 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.1°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.9°
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°).
Herbert’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. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Herbert is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Herbert’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 Cancer · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Herbert Spencer Gasser, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Herbert’s cards
Every card is computed from July 5, 1888, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Herbert Spencer Gasser, 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
Herbert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q273201, 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 Esselte, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 Herbert Spencer Gasser’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Herbert Spencer Gasser?
- Herbert Spencer Gasser was a Cancer: born July 5, 1888, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat.
- What was Herbert Spencer Gasser's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 5, 1888 birth.
- What time was Herbert Spencer Gasser 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 Herbert Spencer Gasser's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 5, 1888 birth date.
- What was Herbert Spencer Gasser's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 5, 1888 birth date.
- Where was Herbert Spencer Gasser's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Herbert Spencer Gasser's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
