Louis Ignarro
Louis Ignarro (born May 31, 1941, Brooklyn, United States), aged 85, is an American physiologist. Ignarro's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Louis Ignarro’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Snake, with 
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Louis Ignarro’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Louis in the U.S.?
#249
US rank in 2025
~409,317
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Louis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Lilac · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Louis, according to the stars
Core essence
Louis is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Louis needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Louis needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Louis needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Louis wants to be loved
Louis wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Louis like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Louis creates
How Louis makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Louis creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Louis is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Louis 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Louis slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Louis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Louis Ignarro's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 31, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Louis Ignarro was born on May 31, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Louis Ignarro's birth date, May 31, 1941, 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 Louis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Louis Ignarro's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Louis Ignarro combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Louis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Louis Ignarro, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Leo 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.
stableSunsquareMars0.4° to 0.7° orb
Louis’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.2° to 1.4° orb
Louis’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.1° orb
Louis’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareNeptune3.3° to 4.5° orb
Louis’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
Louis’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb
Louis’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus6.1° orb
Louis’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.2° to 6.4° orb
Louis’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.3° to 15.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 3.0° to 14.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 3.2° to 16.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Louis’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 28°26′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Louis is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 6°09′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Louis caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosGemini 5°53′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Louis is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 13°48′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Louis is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 9°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Louis is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.8°
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°).
Louis’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Louis is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Louis’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 Gemini · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Louis Ignarro, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Louis’s cards
Every card is computed from May 31, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Louis Ignarro, 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
Louis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309820, 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 Zé Carlos Barretta from São Paulo, Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Louis Ignarro 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Louis Ignarro.
Quick answers about Louis Ignarro’s chart
- How old is Louis Ignarro?
- Louis Ignarro is 85 years old, born May 31, 1941 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Louis Ignarro?
- Louis Ignarro is a Gemini: born May 31, 1941, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake.
- What is Louis Ignarro's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 31, 1941 birth.
- What time was Louis Ignarro 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 Louis Ignarro's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the May 31, 1941 birth date.
- What is Louis Ignarro's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 31, 1941 birth date.
- Where is Louis Ignarro's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Louis Ignarro's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
