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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Pig, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Linda’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Linda sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Linda B. Buck, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Taurus 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.
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
Linda’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.0° to 3.8° orb
Linda’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSunoppositionPluto2.7° to 3.7° orb
Linda’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.4° to 4.5° orb
Linda’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineUranus3.5° to 5.3° orb
Linda’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionUranus3.7° to 4.7° orb
Linda’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.2° to 4.9° orb
Linda’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMars5.6° to 5.8° orb
Linda’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto7.1° orb
Linda’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 8°12′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Linda carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresPisces 2°33′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Linda is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosScorpio 21°43′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Linda is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaAries 24°10′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Linda feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius or Capricorn during this date
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Linda leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Chiron square Sun 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.9°
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°).
Linda’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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Linda is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Linda’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 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 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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Linda B. Buck, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Linda’s cards
Every card is computed from January 29, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Linda B. Buck, 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
Linda’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q200136, 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 Royal Society uploader, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Linda B. Buck at Wikipedia.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- 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 time was Linda B. Buck 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 Linda B. Buck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the January 29, 1947 birth date.
- What is Linda B. Buck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 29, 1947 birth date.
- 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.
