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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Louis
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
The SSA recorded 4,447 American boys and 30 girls named Louis in 1941: 50th among boys and 1,434th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Louis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Louis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Louis apart
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine came in 1998, when Louis Ignarro was 57.
Louis Ignarro was taught at Columbia University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Long Beach High School.
Wikipedia files Louis Ignarro under Academic staff of King Saud University, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy alumni and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA faculty.
Clint Eastwood (1930) and Colin Farrell (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Columbia University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Long Beach High School and University of Minnesota
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 48
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. Working below.
Where Louis sits
Six lines
Louis’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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 Louis Ignarro
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.9° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 31% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
How unusual Louis's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Gemini · 1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl
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.
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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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus6.1° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.2° to 6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 28°26′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 6°09′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 5°53′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 13°48′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 9°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.8°
Louis’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Louis’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Louis’s cards
Computed from May 31, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Louis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309820 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
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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.
- 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 is Louis Ignarro's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Louis Ignarro's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
