Kenneth G. Wilson
Kenneth G. Wilson (born June 8, 1936, Waltham, United States; died 2013), was a Nobel prize winning US physicist. Wilson is best remembered for critical phenomena. Wilson's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Wolf Prize in Physics and Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
Kenneth G. Wilson’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Kenneth G. Wilson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Kenneth in the U.S.?
#294
US rank in 2025
~1,289,312
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Kenneth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Kenneth, according to the stars
Core essence
Kenneth 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. Kenneth needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Kenneth wants to be loved
Kenneth wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Kenneth like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Kenneth creates
How Kenneth makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Kenneth creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Kenneth 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Kenneth is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Kenneth scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Kenneth's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Kenneth sits
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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 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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Kenneth G. Wilson at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Kenneth G. Wilson's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 8, 1936, 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.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Kenneth G. Wilson was born on June 8, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Kenneth G. Wilson's birth date, June 8, 1936, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Kenneth’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kenneth G. Wilson's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Kenneth G. Wilson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Kenneth’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Kenneth G. Wilson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.5° to 0.8° orb
Kenneth’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.1° to 1.9° orb
Kenneth’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussquareNeptune1.5° to 2.7° orb
Kenneth’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunoppositionJupiter1.6° to 2.7° orb
Kenneth’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.1° to 2.3° orb
Kenneth’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareNeptune3.1° to 4.1° orb
Kenneth’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.4° to 4.0° orb
Kenneth’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsquareSaturn3.9° to 4.8° orb
Kenneth’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareNeptune3.9° to 4.6° orb
Kenneth’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrinePluto3.9° orb
Kenneth’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.1° to 6.6° orb
Kenneth’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.5° to 5.8° orb
Kenneth’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Kenneth’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 17°01′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Kenneth turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 17°59′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Kenneth is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosLeo 0°48′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Kenneth loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 9°59′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Kenneth needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°55′ (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 Kenneth 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.
- Chiron conjunction Sun 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.7°
- Chiron conjunction Mars 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.0°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.9°
- Chiron square Neptune 3.0°
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°).
Kenneth’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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune7 pts
disposes Saturn; 6 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Kenneth 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 Kenneth’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, Venus, MarsThree 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.
Grand cross · Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, NeptuneTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.- Grand cross · Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, NeptuneTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
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.
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kenneth G. Wilson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Kenneth’s cards
Every card is computed from June 8, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Kenneth G. Wilson, 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
Kenneth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193503, 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 The Nobel Prize, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kenneth G. Wilson 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 Kenneth G. Wilson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Kenneth G. Wilson?
- Kenneth G. Wilson was a Gemini: born June 8, 1936, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
- What was Kenneth G. Wilson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 8, 1936 birth.
- What time was Kenneth G. Wilson 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 Kenneth G. Wilson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the June 8, 1936 birth date.
- What was Kenneth G. Wilson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 8, 1936 birth date.
- Where was Kenneth G. Wilson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Kenneth G. Wilson's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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