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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Kenneth
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
Of the names registered in 1936, Kenneth came 14th among boys and 1,238th among girls, carried by 12,486 American boys and 34 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Kenneth’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on K (2) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Kenneth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Kenneth apart
Tim Berners-Lee (1955) and Kanye West (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Kenneth sits
Six lines
Kenneth’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 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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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Waltham on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Waltham that night
Computed for 42.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Waltham at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.1° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 42.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 85% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 6° below the horizon.
How unusual Kenneth's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · 4-planet stellium in Gemini
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.
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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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn3.4° to 4.0° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn3.9° to 4.8° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.1° to 6.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.5° to 5.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 17°01′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 17°59′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 0°48′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 9°59′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Kenneth’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Kenneth’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
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Kenneth’s cards
Computed from June 8, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Kenneth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193503 (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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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.
- 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 was Kenneth G. Wilson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Kenneth G. Wilson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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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