Linda B. Buck
Linda B. Buck (born January 29, 1947, Seattle, United States), aged 79, is an American biologist. Buck's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award and Rosenstiel Award.
Linda B. Buck’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Linda
Linda B. Buck’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Linda in the U.S.?
#902
US rank in 2025
~1,458,899
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
In 1947, 99,692 American girls and 216 boys were registered Linda — 1st among girls and 458th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Linda’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on L (3) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 3: tact against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Linda’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1946, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Linda apart
The Rosenstiel Award came in 1996, when Linda B. Buck was 49.
The schooling ran through Roosevelt High School and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
On the family side, Linda B. Buck was married Roger Brent.
On Wikipedia the categories read American women neuroscientists, Olfactory system and Biologists from Washington (state).
Oprah Winfrey (1954) and Olga Tokarczuk (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Roosevelt High School, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Columbia University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2004), Rosenstiel Award (1996) and Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2015)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 83
What the chart says
Linda, according to the stars
Core essence
Linda is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Linda is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Linda is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Linda needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Linda wants to be loved
Linda wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Linda and watch them fall for you again.
How Linda creates
How Linda makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Linda creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Linda is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Linda 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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Linda 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 Linda's birth date. Working below.
Where Linda sits
Six lines
Linda’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 Linda B. Buck
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Seattle 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 Seattle that night
Computed for 47.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Seattle was Capella, in Auriga, 87.3° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 47.6°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −42.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Seattle on any night.
The Moon, 52% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.
How unusual Linda's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets
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 →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Linda B. Buck's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 29, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Linda B. Buck was born on January 29, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Linda B. Buck's birth date, January 29, 1947, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Linda’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Linda B. Buck's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Linda B. Buck combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Linda’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Taurus 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
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.5° to 2.3° orb
Linda’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb
Linda’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn1.3° to 2.2° orb
Linda’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.0° to 3.8° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto2.7° to 3.7° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.5° to 5.3° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.2° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars5.6° to 5.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Linda’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 8°12′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 2°33′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 21°43′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 24°10′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius or Capricorn during this date
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.9°
Linda’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Linda’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Linda’s cards
Computed from January 29, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Linda’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q200136 (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.
Portrait by Royal Society uploader, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Linda B. Buck at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Linda B. Buck.
Quick answers about Linda B. Buck’s chart
- How old is Linda B. Buck?
- Linda B. Buck is 79 years old, born January 29, 1947 in Seattle, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Linda B. Buck?
- Linda B. Buck is an Aquarius: born January 29, 1947, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Linda B. Buck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 29, 1947 birth.
- What is Linda B. Buck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Linda B. Buck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Linda B. Buck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Linda B. Buck's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
