Kip S. Thorne
Kip S. Thorne (born June 1, 1940, Logan, United States), aged 86, is an American physicist (born 1940). Thorne is best known for The Science of Interstellar and Black Holes and Time Warps. Thorne's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Albert Einstein Medal and Shaw Prize.
Kip S. Thorne’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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Kip S. Thorne’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Kip in the U.S.?
#1626
US rank in 2025
~8,722
Americans share it since 1880
1965
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Kip’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Kip, according to the stars
Core essence
Kip 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. Kip needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Kip runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Kip needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Kip wants to be loved
Kip wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Kip gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Kip creates
How Kip makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Kip creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Kip is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Kip 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Kip does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Kip's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 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.
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Kip S. Thorne at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Kip S. Thorne's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 1, 1940, 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.
Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Kip S. Thorne was born on June 1, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Kip S. Thorne's birth date, June 1, 1940, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Kip’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kip S. Thorne's date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Kip S. Thorne combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
Kip’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Kip S. Thorne, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Aries 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.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.2° to 2.2° orb
Kip’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.4° to 1.0° orb
Kip’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.4° orb
Kip’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.4° to 2.6° orb
Kip’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.0° to 3.5° orb
Kip’s affections and drive act as one.
stableVenussextileSaturn4.0° orb
Kip’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.4° to 5.5° orb
Kip’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 3.0° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 3.2° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 5.6° to 17.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 6.7° to 18.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Kip’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.
⚷ ChironCancer 17°59′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Kip is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 12°20′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Kip caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 1°37′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Kip is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaPisces 27°49′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Kip needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 28°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Kip is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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 Venus 0.7°
- Ceres square Sun 1.2°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Mars 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°).
Kip’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn3 pts
3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Kip 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 Kip’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 semi-square Saturn 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kip S. Thorne, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Kip’s cards
Every card is computed from June 1, 1940, 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 Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Kip S. Thorne, 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
Kip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q323320, 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 Keenan Pepper, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 Kip S. Thorne’s chart
- How old is Kip S. Thorne?
- Kip S. Thorne is 86 years old, born June 1, 1940 in Logan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Kip S. Thorne?
- Kip S. Thorne is a Gemini: born June 1, 1940, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
- What is Kip S. Thorne's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 1, 1940 birth.
- What time was Kip S. Thorne 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 Kip S. Thorne's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the June 1, 1940 birth date.
- What is Kip S. Thorne's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 1, 1940 birth date.
- Where is Kip S. Thorne's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Kip S. Thorne's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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