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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Horse, with 
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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
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Jerome’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour 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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Jerome Karle was born on June 18, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Jerome Karle's birth date, June 18, 1918, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Jerome’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jerome Karle's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Jerome Karle combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Jerome’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jerome Karle, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° 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.
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
Jerome’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareJupiter3.2° to 3.4° orb
Jerome’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareSaturn5.5° to 6.5° orb
Jerome’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.2° to 6.3° orb
Jerome’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 3°20′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Jerome may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 4°07′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Jerome caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosGemini 3°49′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Jerome is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaAries 16°50′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Jerome feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 5°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Jerome that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Jerome’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Jerome is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Jerome’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.
Stellium 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 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-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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jerome Karle, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Jerome’s cards
Every card is computed from June 18, 1918, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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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
No birth time is on public record for Jerome Karle, 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
Jerome’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106733, 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 United States Office of Naval Research, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jerome Karle 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
- 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 time was Jerome Karle 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 Jerome Karle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the June 18, 1918 birth date.
- What was Jerome Karle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 18, 1918 birth date.
- 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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