Julius Axelrod
Julius Axelrod (born May 30, 1912, New York City, United States; died 2004), was an American biochemist. Axelrod's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Julius Axelrod’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Julius
Julius Axelrod’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Julius in the U.S.?
#424
US rank in 2025
~85,038
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
The SSA recorded 758 American boys and 8 girls named Julius in 1912: 100th among boys and 2,249th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Julius’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Julius’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1912, 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 Julius apart
The Canada Gairdner International Award came in 1967, when Julius Axelrod was 55.
The schooling ran through Seward Park High School and George Washington University Medical School.
Julius Axelrod lies at Judean Memorial Gardens.
Wikipedia files Julius Axelrod under National Institutes of Health faculty, George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences alumni and American neuroscientists.
Hugh Griffith shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Seward Park High School, George Washington University Medical School and City College of New York
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1970), Ralph W. Gerard Prize (1992) and Schmiedeberg Badge (1978)
- Buried at
- Judean Memorial Gardens
- Citizenship
- United States and Poland
- Languages
- English and Polish
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
What the chart says
Julius, according to the stars
Core essence
Julius 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. Julius needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Julius wants to be loved
Julius 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 Julius is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Julius creates
How Julius 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. Julius 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: Julius is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Julius is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Julius fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Julius's birth date. Working below.
Where Julius sits
Six lines
Julius’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 Julius Axelrod
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 81.2° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City 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 New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
- Lived in
- New York City
Wikidata records New York City as Julius Axelrod's home, New York City among them.
The death is recorded at Bethesda, Montgomery County in 2004.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Julius Axelrod: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Julius's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Julius Axelrod's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 30, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Julius Axelrod was born on May 30, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Julius Axelrod's birth date, May 30, 1912, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Julius’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Julius Axelrod's date-only chart is Sun opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Julius Axelrod combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Julius’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.1° to 2.8° orb
Julius’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSunoppositionJupiter1.3° to 2.4° orb
Julius’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMarsoppositionUranus1.6° to 2.2° orb
Julius’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussextileMars2.1° to 2.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.8° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.7° to 4.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn4.8° to 6.4° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.1° to 6.1° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Julius’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 11°03′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 9°49′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 14°33′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 19°16′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 29°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.9°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 2.0°
- Chiron square Sun 2.2°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.6°
Julius’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Julius’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.5°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 2.0°
Born the same day as Julius
Hugh Griffith was born on May 30, 1912 too, 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. New York City sits at 40.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Julius’s cards
Computed from May 30, 1912. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Julius’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110106 (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.
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The same Julius Axelrod at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Julius Axelrod’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Julius Axelrod?
- Julius Axelrod was a Gemini: born May 30, 1912, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Julius Axelrod's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 30, 1912 birth.
- What was Julius Axelrod's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Julius Axelrod's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Julius Axelrod's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Julius Axelrod's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
