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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Tiger, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Irwin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. 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.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Irwin Rose, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Libra 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.
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
Irwin’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineMars2.1° orb
Irwin’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineNeptune2.3° to 2.9° orb
Irwin’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb
Irwin’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsquareMars2.4° to 2.7° orb
Irwin’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.4° to 4.4° orb
Irwin’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.9° orb
Irwin’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineJupiter4.2° to 5.4° orb
Irwin’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 4.9° orb
Irwin’s mind and imagination act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°59′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Irwin building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresVirgo 12°10′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Irwin caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 11°17′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Irwin is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLeo 12°44′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Irwin at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 4°11′ (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 Irwin 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 sextile Pluto 2.3°
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°).
Irwin’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. ♂ 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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Irwin is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Irwin’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Irwin Rose, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Irwin’s cards
Every card is computed from July 16, 1926, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Irwin Rose, 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
Irwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230652, 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 Photograph by Avi Blizovsky, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Irwin Rose at Wikipedia.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
- 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 time was Irwin Rose 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 Irwin Rose's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the July 16, 1926 birth date.
- What was Irwin Rose's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 16, 1926 birth date.
- 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.
