Irwin Rose
Irwin Rose (born July 16, 1926, Brooklyn, United States; died 2015), was an American biologist. Rose's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Irwin Rose’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Irwin
Irwin Rose’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Irwin in the U.S.?
#6600
US rank in 2025
~15,958
Americans share it since 1880
1925
its peak year
In 1926, 463 American boys were registered Irwin — 265th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Irwin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
2
Soul Urge · closeness
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on I (9) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Irwin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1926, 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 Irwin apart
The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1971, when Irwin Rose was 45.
The schooling ran through Lewis and Clark High School and New York University.
Irwin Rose lies at Jewish Community Association of Amherst Cemetery.
On Wikipedia the categories read Military personnel from Spokane, Washington, Scientists from Spokane, Washington and University of California, Irvine School of Medicine faculty.
Will Ferrell (1967) and Margaret Court (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Lewis and Clark High School, New York University and University of Chicago
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1971)
- Buried at
- Jewish Community Association of Amherst Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
What the chart says
Irwin, according to the stars
Core essence
Irwin feels the room before entering it. The core of Irwin 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 Irwin, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Irwin cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Irwin needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Irwin wants to be loved
Irwin wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Irwin like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Irwin creates
How Irwin makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Irwin creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Irwin 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 5 is the free spirit. Irwin is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Irwin gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Irwin's birth date. Working below.
Where Irwin sits
Six lines
Irwin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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
Dedicate a star to Irwin Rose
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 76.2° up.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 40% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 6° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at Deerfield, Franklin County in 2015.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Irwin Rose: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Irwin's chart is
Chart pattern score
59 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Saturn · T-square onto Saturn · 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.
Score your own chart →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Irwin Rose's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 16, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Irwin Rose was born on July 16, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Irwin Rose's birth date, July 16, 1926, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Irwin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Irwin Rose's date-only chart is Venus sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- Irwin Rose combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Irwin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Libra 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
stableVenussextileMars0.0° to 0.5° orb
Irwin’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.5° to 1.1° orb
Irwin’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenussextileNeptune1.8° to 3.0° orb
Irwin’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.0° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurytrineMars2.1° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune2.3° to 2.9° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableSunsquareMars2.4° to 2.7° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.9° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter4.2° to 5.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 4.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Irwin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°59′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 12°10′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 11°17′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 12°44′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 4°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Pluto 2.3°
Irwin’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Irwin’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Jupiter, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Saturn · Venus, Mars, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.0°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.0°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.5°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Irwin’s cards
Computed from July 16, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Irwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230652 (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 Photograph by Avi Blizovsky, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Irwin Rose at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Irwin Rose.
Quick answers about Irwin Rose’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Irwin Rose?
- Irwin Rose was a Cancer: born July 16, 1926, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Irwin Rose's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 16, 1926 birth.
- What was Irwin Rose's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Irwin Rose's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Irwin Rose's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Irwin Rose's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Aries; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
