Katalin Karikó
Katalin Karikó (born January 17, 1955, Szolnok, Hungary), aged 71, is a Hungarian biochemist. Karikó's honours include Helmholtz Medal, Rosenstiel Award and Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research.
Katalin Karikó’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Horse, with 
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Katalin Karikó’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
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Katalin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Katalin, according to the stars
Core essence
Katalin is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Katalin 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Katalin feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Katalin needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Katalin wants to be loved
Katalin 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 Katalin and watch them fall for you again.
How Katalin creates
How Katalin makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Katalin creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Katalin 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Katalin is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Katalin gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Katalin's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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.
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Katalin Karikó at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Katalin Karikó's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 17, 1955, 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 Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Katalin Karikó was born on January 17, 1955, which falls in a Wood 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 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
Katalin Karikó's birth date, January 17, 1955, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Katalin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Katalin Karikó's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Katalin Karikó combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Katalin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Katalin Karikó, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Scorpio 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.
stableSunoppositionUranus0.4° to 1.5° orb
Katalin’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.4° to 1.1° orb
Katalin’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.9° to 1.0° orb
Katalin’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb
Katalin’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunoppositionJupiter1.3° to 2.4° orb
Katalin’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
Katalin’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquareNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
Katalin’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.4° to 3.6° orb
Katalin’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.9° to 5.1° orb
Katalin’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineUranus5.6° to 6.4° orb
Katalin’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.9° to 6.0° orb
Katalin’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.5° to 6.6° orb
Katalin’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Katalin’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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 29°07′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Katalin is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 24°29′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Katalin is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAquarius 20°01′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Katalin is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaLibra 17°41′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Katalin is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 24°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Katalin is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Eros square Saturn 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.6°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.5°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.5°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 2.6°
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°).
Katalin’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. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Katalin 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 Katalin’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 onto Neptune · Sun, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Neptune · Sun, Jupiter, 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.
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.6°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Katalin Karikó, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Katalin’s cards
Every card is computed from January 17, 1955, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Katalin Karikó, 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
Katalin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q88608397, 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 US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Katalin Karikó at Wikipedia, pennmedicine.org and X.
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 Katalin Karikó’s chart
- How old is Katalin Karikó?
- Katalin Karikó is 71 years old, born January 17, 1955 in Szolnok, Hungary.
- What zodiac sign is Katalin Karikó?
- Katalin Karikó is a Capricorn: born January 17, 1955, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse.
- What is Katalin Karikó's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 17, 1955 birth.
- What time was Katalin Karikó 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 is Katalin Karikó's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the January 17, 1955 birth date.
- What is Katalin Karikó's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 17, 1955 birth date.
- Where is Katalin Karikó's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Katalin Karikó's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
