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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Herbert
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.
How common is the name Herbert in the U.S.?
#2656
US rank in 2025
~229,383
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
In 1888, 485 American boys were registered Herbert — 43rd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Herbert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on H (8) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Herbert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Herbert apart
Hernán Crespo (1975) and Susan Wojcicki (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Herbert sits
Six lines
Herbert’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Platteville 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 Platteville that night
Computed for 42.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Platteville at 9 p.m. that evening, 73.5° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
Platteville sits at 42.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 9% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 11° below the horizon.
How unusual Herbert's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · No Earth 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.
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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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Taurus or Gemini 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
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
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.5° to 1.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.7° to 6.3° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus6.0° to 6.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 4°53′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 21°30′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 8°51′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 0°16′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 16°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Herbert’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Herbert’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.2°
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Herbert’s cards
Computed from July 5, 1888. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Herbert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q273201 (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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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.
- 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 was Herbert Spencer Gasser's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Herbert Spencer Gasser's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
