Lee Hartwell
Lee Hartwell (born October 30, 1939, Los Angeles, United States), aged 87, is an American biologist. Hartwell's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Genetics Society of America Medal and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Lee Hartwell’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Lee
Lee Hartwell’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Lee in the U.S.?
#727
US rank in 2025
~295,926
Americans share it since 1880
1951
its peak year
Lee ranked 78th among boys and 286th among girls in 1939, the year of this birth, with 2,589 American boys and 477 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lee’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on L (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lee’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Crimson · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Lee apart
Lee Hartwell took the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize in 1991, at 52.
The classrooms behind this chart: Herbert Hoover High School and Glendale High School (California).
Wikipedia's editors put Lee Hartwell under Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center people, American scientists and Arizona State University faculty.
Diego Maradona (1960) and Ivanka Trump (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Herbert Hoover High School, Glendale High School (California) and California Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2001), Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1995) and Canada Gairdner International Award (1992)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 50
What the chart says
Lee, according to the stars
Core essence
Lee does not do surface. The core of Lee is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Lee is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Lee processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Lee needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Lee wants to be loved
Lee wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Lee even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Lee creates
How Lee makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Lee creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Lee is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Lee is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Lee goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Lee's birth date. Working below.
Where Lee sits
Six lines
Lee’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Lee Hartwell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Los Angeles was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 82.7° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 93 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Los Angeles on any night.
The Moon, 91% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.
How unusual Lee's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · Grand trine · T-square onto Mars
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Lee Hartwell's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 30, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Lee Hartwell was born on October 30, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Lee Hartwell's birth date, October 30, 1939, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Lee’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lee Hartwell's date-only chart is Venus opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Lee Hartwell combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Lee’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Lee’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercurytrineJupiter1.1° to 2.5° orb
Lee’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareUranus2.2° to 2.9° orb
Lee’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareMars2.6° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.9° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableSunsquarePluto3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune3.1° to 4.3° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto4.1° to 5.4° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Lee’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 20°04′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 2°05′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 11°53′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 13°48′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 4°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Chiron trine Venus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.5°
Lee’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Lee’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 trine · Mercury, Jupiter, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Mars · Venus, Uranus, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.0°
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on October 30
- Diego Maradona1960
- Ivanka Trump1981
- Devin Booker1996
- Nia Long1970
- Ashley Graham1987
- Simon Doonan1952
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Igor ThiagoBrazilian footballer (born 2001)
- Petar MusaCroatian footballer
- Thelo AasgaardNorwegian footballer (born 2002)
Other Scorpio Rabbit charts
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- Tara ReidAmerican actress (born 1975)
- Tatum O'NealAmerican actress (born 1963)
Other Gilded Scholars
- VitinhaPortuguese footballer (born 2000)
- Ismail JakobsSenegalese-German association football player
- Emiliano MartínezUruguayan footballer (born 1999)
- Sander TangvikNorwegian association football goalkeeper (born 2002)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Paul GrahamEnglish-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
- Françoise Bettencourt MeyersFrench businesswoman, billionaire
- Domenico DolceItalian fashion designer
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Lee’s cards
Computed from October 30, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lee’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295869 (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.
The same Lee Hartwell at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lee Hartwell.
Quick answers about Lee Hartwell’s chart
- How old is Lee Hartwell?
- Lee Hartwell is 87 years old, born October 30, 1939 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Lee Hartwell?
- Lee Hartwell is a Scorpio: born October 30, 1939, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Lee Hartwell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 30, 1939 birth.
- What is Lee Hartwell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Lee Hartwell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Lee Hartwell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lee Hartwell's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
