Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling (born February 28, 1901, Portland, United States, 22:00; died 1994), was an American scientist. Pauling served as professor. Pauling's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and National Medal of Science.
Linus Pauling’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
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Linus Pauling’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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Americans share it since 1880
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Linus’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Linus, according to the stars
Core essence
Linus feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Linus is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Linus is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Linus needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Linus wants to be loved
Linus wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Linus be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Linus creates
How Linus makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Linus creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Linus is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Linus is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Linus channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Linus's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Linus Pauling's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Metal Ox
Metal OxSlow, steady, never quits.
Linus Pauling was born on February 28, 1901, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Linus Pauling's birth date, February 28, 1901, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Linus’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Linus Pauling's timed chart: Moon in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 4th house and Saturn in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Linus Pauling's timed chart is Uranus opposition Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Linus Pauling combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Linus’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
UranusoppositionPlutoseparating · 1.0° orb
Linus’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MoontrineMercuryseparating · 1.3° orb
Linus’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
VenustrineNeptuneapplying · 1.9° orb
Linus’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunsextileJupiterseparating · 2.2° orb
Linus’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
MarssextileNeptuneapplying · 3.8° orb
Linus’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SunsextileSaturnapplying · 4.0° orb
Linus’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MercurysquareUranusapplying · 4.8° orb
Linus’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 5.0° orb
Linus’s mind grinds against their imagination.
SunsquarePlutoapplying · 5.7° orb
Linus’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenusoppositionMarsapplying · 5.7° orb
Linus’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
MercurysquarePlutoapplying · 5.8° orb
Linus’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
JupiterconjunctionSaturnapplying · 6.2° orb
Linus’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunsquareUranusapplying · 6.7° orb
Linus’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Linus’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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 4°03′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Linus is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresPisces 15°53′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Linus is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosGemini 21°34′ · House 9
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Linus is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 26°09′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Linus is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 21°39′ · House 1
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Linus that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Eros square Mercury 0.1°
- Ceres square Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Ascendant 0.7°
- Ceres square Uranus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Moon 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.9°
- Eros trine Venus 3.0°
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°).
Linus’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; angular in the tenth house; 1 major aspect
2. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Linus is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Linus’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
T-square onto Sun · Uranus, Pluto, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mercury · Uranus, Pluto, MercuryAn 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 biquintile Uranus 0.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.3°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.7°
- Moon quincunx Venus 1.8°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.8°
Linus’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 5 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Scorpio | Pluto in Gemini, house 9 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 4 | Uranus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 4 | Jupiter, Saturn | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aquarius | Uranus in Sagittarius, house 3 | Venus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Pisces | Neptune in Gemini, house 9 | Sun, Mercury | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 12 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 5 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Gemini | Mercury in Pisces, house 6 | Neptune, Pluto | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Cancer | Moon in Cancer, house 10 | Moon | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Leo | Sun in Pisces, house 6 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Virgo | Mercury in Pisces, house 6 | Mars | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Linus’s cards
Every card is computed from February 28, 1901, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Linus’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q48983, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Linus Pauling at Wikipedia, scarc.library.oregonstate.edu and MusicBrainz.
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 Linus Pauling’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Linus Pauling?
- Linus Pauling was a Pisces: born February 28, 1901, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Ox.
- What was Linus Pauling's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 28, 1901 birth.
- What time was Linus Pauling born?
- 22:00 local time in Portland, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Linus Pauling's rising sign?
- Libra rising, calculated from the documented 22:00 birth time in Portland, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Linus Pauling's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the February 28, 1901 birth date.
- What was Linus Pauling's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 4°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 28, 1901 birth time.
- Where was Linus Pauling's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 21°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Linus Pauling's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; angular in the tenth house; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
