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Jerome Karle

Jerome Karle (born June 18, 1918, New York City, United States; died 2013), was an American physical chemist. Karle's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Captain Robert Dexter Conrad Award and honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow.

Jerome Karle’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Jerome Karle’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Seeker

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#1257

US rank in 2025

~162,296

Americans share it since 1880

1954

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1918, Jerome came 136th among boys and 3,379th among girls, carried by 1,146 American boys and 9 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jerome’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Jerome’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Lilac · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, 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 Jerome apart

Jerome Karle took the Captain Robert Dexter Conrad Award in 1976, at 58.

Training came by way of University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Abraham Lincoln High School.

Cause of death is recorded as liver cancer; the grave is at Columbia Gardens Cemetery.

The family line: married Isabella Karle.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jerome Karle: Chemists from New York (state), Recipients of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award and Presidents of the International Union of Crystallography.

Paul McCartney (1942) and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Abraham Lincoln High School and City College of New York
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1985), Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award (2009) and Captain Robert Dexter Conrad Award (1976)
Cause of death
liver cancer
Buried at
Columbia Gardens Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
57

What the chart says

Jerome, according to the stars

Core essence

Jerome is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Jerome needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Jerome 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 Jerome 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 Jerome wants to be loved

Jerome wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Jerome is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Jerome creates

How Jerome 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. Jerome 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: Jerome is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Jerome is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Jerome 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 Jerome's birth date. Working below.

Where Jerome sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jerome

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jerome

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Jerome

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jerome

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

PracticalVisionary
Jerome

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jerome

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

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Jerome’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 80.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 14.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 9.1° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 73% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States
Lived in
New York City

Wikidata records New York City as Jerome Karle's home, New York City among them.

The death is recorded at Annandale, Fairfax County in 2013.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jerome Karle: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Jerome's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Gemini · 1 unaspected planet

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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Jerome Karle in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Four conversations, one person.

Jerome Karle's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 18, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Horse

Happiest halfway there.

Jerome Karle was born on June 18, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Jerome Karle's birth date, June 18, 1918, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Jerome’s chart

Jerome’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Uranus · Trine, 1° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 1.1° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.2° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.2° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 3.3° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.3° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4.7° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.8° orbSun in Gemini · 26°35′☉26°Moon in Libra · 19°45′☽19°Mercury in Gemini · 16°27′☿16°Venus in Taurus · 17°37′♀17°Mars in Virgo · 27°41′♂27°Jupiter in Gemini · 24°25′♃24°Saturn in Leo · 11°37′♄11°Uranus in Aquarius · 27°37′ · retrograde♅℞27°Neptune in Leo · 5°22′♆5°Pluto in Cancer · 4°49′♇4°

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

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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

  • stableSuntrineUranus0.5° to 1.5° orb

    Jerome’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsquareMars0.8° to 1.4° orb

    Jerome’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.8° to 2.5° orb

    Jerome’s core identity and growth act as one.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus3.1° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter3.2° to 3.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.5° to 6.5° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.2° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 1.3° to 12.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.9° to 13.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 2.2° to 14.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 3°20′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 4°07′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 3°49′ (moves 0.83° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 16°50′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 5°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.4°
  • Ceres opposition Pluto 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.7°
  • Chiron square Pluto 1.5°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.5°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.0°

Jerome’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Jerome’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.

  • Sun semi-square Saturn 0.0°
  • Mars quincunx Uranus 0.1°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.2°

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Jerome’s cards

Computed from June 18, 1918. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jerome’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106733 (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 United States Office of Naval Research, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Jerome Karle’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jerome Karle?
Jerome Karle was a Gemini: born June 18, 1918, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was Jerome Karle's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 18, 1918 birth.
What was Jerome Karle's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Jerome Karle's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Jerome Karle's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jerome Karle's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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