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Jack Szostak

Jack Szostak (born November 9, 1952, London, United Kingdom), aged 73, is an American biologist. Szostak's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Great Immigrants Award and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.

Jack Szostak’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Jack Szostak’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Jack in the U.S.?

#15

US rank in 2025

~759,677

Americans share it since 1880

1927

its peak year

The SSA recorded 6,937 American boys and 9 girls named Jack in 1952: 52nd among boys and 3,937th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jack’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

8

Soul Urge · achievement

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on J (1) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Jack’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus

Gold · Crimson · Soft pink

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 1952, 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 Jack apart

The NAS Award in Molecular Biology came in 1994, when Jack Szostak was 42.

Jack Szostak was taught at McGill University and Cornell University.

Wikipedia files Jack Szostak under Canadian people of Polish descent, British people of Polish descent and McGill Faculty of Science alumni.

Sherrod Brown and John Megna shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
McGill University and Cornell University
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2009), NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1994) and Genetics Society of America Medal (2000)
Citizenship
Canada and United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
60

What the chart says

Jack, according to the stars

Core essence

Jack does not do surface. The core of Jack is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Jack is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Jack needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Jack needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Jack wants to be loved

Jack 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 Jack and watch them fall for you again.

How Jack creates

How Jack makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Jack creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Jack is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Jack 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 Jack leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Jack does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Jack's birth date. Working below.

Where Jack sits

Six lines

Jack’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Jack

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jack

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Jack

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jack

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Jack

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jack

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jack Szostak

Three stars chosen from the real sky above London on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Jack’s birth-night reference starSchedarwarm orange · CassiopeiaSchedar, in Cassiopeia. A warm orange star, 84.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Schedar →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 42.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Schedar stood nearest the zenith over London at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.2° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.

Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon down and 48% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Jack's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Saturn

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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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Jack Szostak's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 9, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Water Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Jack Szostak was born on November 9, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 1

Goes first. Works it out.

Jack Szostak's birth date, November 9, 1952, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Jack’s chart

Jack’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.1° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.4° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.9° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.9° orbSun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.3° orbSun in Scorpio · 17°02′☉17°Moon in Leo · 15°22′☽15°Mercury in Sagittarius · 9°51′☿9°Venus in Sagittarius · 22°18′♀22°Mars in Capricorn · 20°42′♂20°Jupiter in Taurus · 15°46′ · retrograde♃℞15°Saturn in Libra · 21°27′♄21°Uranus in Cancer · 18°25′ · retrograde♅℞18°Neptune in Libra · 22°23′♆22°Pluto in Leo · 23°13′♇23°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Jack’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMoonsquareJupiter0.1° to 6.4° orb

    Jack’s feelings grind against their growth.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn0.3° to 1.4° orb

    Jack’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenustrinePluto0.3° to 1.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn0.4° to 1.1° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter0.7° to 1.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus0.9° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune1.3° to 2.0° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus1.9° to 2.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Jack’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 8°55′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 15°23′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 18°29′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 21°40′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 25°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Mars 1.0°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.8°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 3.0°

Jack’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Jack’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mars, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.6°

Born the same day as Jack

4 other people here were born on November 9, 1952, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 51.5°N, London keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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Jack’s cards

Computed from November 9, 1952. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104600 (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 Prolineserver (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jack Szostak at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jack Szostak.

Quick answers about Jack Szostak’s chart

How old is Jack Szostak?
Jack Szostak is 73 years old, born November 9, 1952 in London, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Jack Szostak?
Jack Szostak is a Scorpio: born November 9, 1952, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Jack Szostak's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 9, 1952 birth.
What is Jack Szostak's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Jack Szostak's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jack Szostak's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jack Szostak's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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