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Kary Mullis

Kary Mullis (born December 28, 1944, Lenoir, United States; died 2019), was an American biochemist. Mullis's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, National Inventors Hall of Fame and Robert Koch Prize.

Kary Mullis’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Kary Mullis’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 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

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~3,378

Americans share it since 1880

1972

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Kary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern

Frost white · Ivory · Forest

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Kary, according to the stars

Core essence

Kary is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Kary is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

How Kary wants to be loved

Kary wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Kary be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Kary creates

How Kary 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. Kary 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: Kary is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Kary is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Kary has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Kary's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Kary sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Kary

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kary

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

PrivateExpressive
Kary

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kary

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

PracticalVisionary
Kary

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kary

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Kary Mullis

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

Kary’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 83.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightBetelgeusedeep red · OrionBetelgeuse, in Orion. A deep red star, 30.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Betelgeuse →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Kary Mullis at a glance

Capricorn Sun

Climbs. Then climbs again.

Kary Mullis's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 28, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

Wood Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Kary Mullis was born on December 28, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

Kary Mullis's birth date, December 28, 1944, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Kary’s chart

Kary’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Kary Mullis, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.4° orbSun faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.5° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 0.5° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.7° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.9° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 1.1° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.1° orbSun in Capricorn · 6°49′☉6°Moon in Gemini · 25°04′☽25°Mercury in Sagittarius · 24°37′ · retrograde☿℞24°Venus in Aquarius · 20°37′♀20°Mars in Sagittarius · 23°57′♂23°Jupiter in Virgo · 27°10′♃27°Saturn in Cancer · 7°21′ · retrograde♄℞7°Uranus in Gemini · 10°05′ · retrograde♅℞10°Neptune in Libra · 6°24′♆6°Pluto in Leo · 9°47′ · retrograde♇℞9°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Kary’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Kary’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMoonoppositionMars0.0° to 7.5° orb

    Kary’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.0° to 1.5° orb

    Kary’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMoonoppositionMercury0.1° to 7.6° orb

    Kary’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.

  • stableUranussextilePluto0.3° orb

    Kary’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb

    Kary’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter2.1° to 3.0° orb

    Kary’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter2.9° to 3.6° orb

    Kary’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussextileMars3.1° to 3.6° orb

    Kary’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb

    Kary’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.7° orb

    Kary’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

Kary’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.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 3°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Kary is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 25°14′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Kary is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

  • ♡ ErosAries 28°12′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Kary is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 0°39′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Kary is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 5°03′ (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 Kary 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.

  • Ceres sextile Mercury 0.6°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 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°).

Kary’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. 1. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    4 major aspects

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Kary is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

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 Kary’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, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Sun, Saturn, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kary Mullis, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Kary’s cards

Every card is computed from December 28, 1944, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Kary Mullis, 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

Kary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q157224, 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 Dona Mapston, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kary Mullis at Wikipedia, karymullis.com and IMDb.

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 Kary Mullis.

Quick answers about Kary Mullis’s chart

What zodiac sign was Kary Mullis?
Kary Mullis was a Capricorn: born December 28, 1944, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Monkey.
What was Kary Mullis's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 28, 1944 birth.
What time was Kary Mullis 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 Kary Mullis's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the December 28, 1944 birth date.
What was Kary Mullis's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 28, 1944 birth date.
Where was Kary Mullis'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 Kary Mullis's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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