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Lee Hartwell

Lee Hartwell (born October 30, 1939, Los Angeles, United States), aged 86, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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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

US Social Security Administration public records

Lee’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Lee sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Lee

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Lee

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Lee

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lee

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Lee

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Lee

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

Reads 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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Earth Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Lee Hartwell was born on October 30, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Lee Hartwell's birth date, October 30, 1939, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Lee’s chart

Lee’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Lee Hartwell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.4° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.8° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.6° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 2.9° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 3° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.6° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.6° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.7° orbSun in Scorpio · 6°30′Moon in Gemini · 6°49′Mercury in Scorpio · 28°09′28°Venus in Scorpio · 20°52′20°Mars in Aquarius · 17°57′17°Jupiter in Pisces · 29°56′ · retrograde29°Saturn in Aries · 27°07′ · retrograde27°Uranus in Taurus · 20°30′ · retrograde20°Neptune in Virgo · 24°35′24°Pluto in Leo · 2°55′

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • 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

    Lee’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune2.9° to 4.2° orb

    Lee’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb

    Lee’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableSunsquarePluto3.1° to 4.1° orb

    Lee’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune3.1° to 4.3° orb

    Lee’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb

    Lee’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto4.1° to 5.4° orb

    Lee’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.3° to 5.4° orb

    Lee’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto5.8° orb

    Lee’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

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

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 20°04′

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Lee is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • CeresVirgo 2°05′ (moves 0.36° 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 Lee caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ErosVirgo 11°53′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Lee is read as slow to start and exact once started.

  • HygieaCapricorn 13°48′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Lee is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

  • Black Moon LilithPisces 4°58′ (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. Lee is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron sextile Uranus 0.4°
  • Chiron trine Venus 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.5°

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°).

Lee’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. 1. Pluto10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. Mercury5 pts

    disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. Venus5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Lee is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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 Lee’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, the shape it makesStellium 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, the shape it makesGrand 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, the shape it makesT-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 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.

  • Uranus quintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
  • Mars biquintile Neptune 0.6°
  • Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.0°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Lee Hartwell, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Lee’s cards

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The Gilded Scholar

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

yin Earth

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yang Wood

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Metal

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Lee Hartwell, 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

Lee’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295869, 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.

The same Lee Hartwell at Wikipedia 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lee Hartwell.

Quick answers about Lee Hartwell’s chart

How old is Lee Hartwell?
Lee Hartwell is 86 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit.
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 time was Lee Hartwell 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 Lee Hartwell's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 30, 1939 birth date.
What is Lee Hartwell's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 30, 1939 birth date.
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.

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