Howard Temin
Howard Temin (born December 10, 1934, Philadelphia, United States; died 1994), was an American geneticist. Temin's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Medal of Science and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Howard Temin’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Howard
Howard Temin’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 Howard in the U.S.?
#1004
US rank in 2025
~348,342
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 5,068 American boys and 22 girls named Howard in 1934: 37th among boys and 1,626th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Howard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on H (8) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Howard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1934, 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 Howard apart
The NAS Award in Molecular Biology came in 1972, when Howard Temin was 38.
The schooling ran through Swarthmore College and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The record gives lung cancer as the cause, and Forest Hill Cemetery as the resting place.
Wikipedia files Howard Temin under Deaths from lung cancer in Wisconsin, Central High School (Philadelphia) alumni and Biotechnologists.
Ada Lovelace (1815) and Gonzalo Higuaín (1987) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Swarthmore College, University of Wisconsin-Madison and California Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975), National Medal of Science (1992) and Canada Gairdner International Award (1974)
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Buried at
- Forest Hill Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 52
What the chart says
Howard, according to the stars
Core essence
Howard is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Howard 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, Howard 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 Howard 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 Howard wants to be loved
Howard 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 Howard and watch them fall for you again.
How Howard creates
How Howard 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. Howard 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: Howard is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Howard 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Howard channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Howard's birth date. Working below.
Where Howard sits
Six lines
Howard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Howard Temin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Philadelphia was Almach, in Andromeda, 86.4° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 108 catalog stars above the horizon.
Philadelphia sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −50.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Philadelphia on any night.
The Moon, 24% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Philadelphia, United States
The death is recorded at Madison, Dane County in 1994.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Howard Temin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Howard's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
Howard Temin's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 10, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Howard Temin was born on December 10, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Howard Temin's birth date, December 10, 1934, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Howard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Howard Temin's date-only chart is Venus sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Howard Temin combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Howard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussextileSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb
Howard’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.6° to 1.8° orb
Howard’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquarePluto2.1° orb
Howard’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareNeptune2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.7° to 4.2° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.9° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.2° to 5.4° orb
stableVenussquareMars6.0° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Howard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 6°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 1°32′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 28°12′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 29°40′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 16°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Mercury 0.1°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.9°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.5°
Howard’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Howard’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · 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.
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.9°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.4°
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Born in United States
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on December 10
- Ada Lovelace1815
- Gonzalo Higuaín1987
- Teyana Taylor1990
- Raven-Symoné1985
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Sylvia SidneyAmerican actress
- Patricia ClarksonAmerican actress
- Howard ShoreCanadian film score composer (born 1946)
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Other Evergreen Healers
- Kyra SedgwickAmerican actress (born 1965)
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Famous people with Life Path 3
- Lars HörmanderSwedish mathematician
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Howard’s cards
Computed from December 10, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Howard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q243536 (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.
Portrait by Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Howard Temin at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Howard Temin.
Quick answers about Howard Temin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Howard Temin?
- Howard Temin was a Sagittarius: born December 10, 1934, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Howard Temin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 10, 1934 birth.
- What was Howard Temin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Howard Temin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Howard Temin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Howard Temin's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
