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Portrait of Luis Federico Leloir

Luis Federico Leloir

Luis Federico Leloir (born September 6, 1906, Paris, France; died 1987), was an Argentine biochemist. Leloir's honours include Legion of Honour, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and Canada Gairdner International Award.

Luis Federico Leloir’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

Your match with Luis

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Luis Federico Leloir’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Explorer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Luis in the U.S.?

#144

US rank in 2025

~294,500

Americans share it since 1880

2007

its peak year

In 1906, 19 American boys were registered Luis — 534th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Luis’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

3

Soul Urge · being heard

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Luis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

22 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet

The record

What sets Luis apart

Idris Elba (1972) and Max George (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Luis, according to the stars

Core essence

Luis notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Luis is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Luis wants to be loved

Luis wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Luis gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Luis creates

How Luis makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Luis creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Luis is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Luis is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Luis fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Luis's birth date. Working below.

Where Luis sits

Six lines

Luis’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Luis

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Luis

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Luis

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Luis

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Luis

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Luis

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Luis Federico Leloir

Three stars chosen from the real sky above 16th arrondissement of Paris 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 16th arrondissement of Paris that night

Computed for 48.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at 16th arrondissement of Paris at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 5.0° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 48.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Nothing below −41.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from 16th arrondissement of Paris on any night.

The Moon, 85% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.

How unusual Luis's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Luis Federico Leloir's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 6, 1906, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Fire Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Luis Federico Leloir was born on September 6, 1906, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 22

Builds what others only dream about.

Luis Federico Leloir's birth date, September 6, 1906, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Luis’s chart

Luis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.7° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.8° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.4° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.4° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 1.6° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.2° orbSun in Virgo · 12°58′☉12°Moon in Aries · 24°37′☽24°Mercury in Leo · 27°36′☿27°Venus in Libra · 28°48′♀28°Mars in Leo · 26°10′♂26°Jupiter in Cancer · 6°45′♃6°Saturn in Pisces · 11°32′ · retrograde♄℞11°Uranus in Capricorn · 4°32′ · retrograde♅℞4°Neptune in Cancer · 12°12′♆12°Pluto in Gemini · 23°43′♇23°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.3° to 1.2° orb

    Luis’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb

    Luis’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn0.9° to 2.0° orb

    Luis’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.9° to 1.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.9° to 1.9° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto2.1° to 2.8° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars2.4° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto3.1° to 4.7° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto4.6° to 5.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn4.7° to 4.9° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 5.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Luis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 8°21′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 15°13′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLibra 7°22′ (moves 0.81° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 8°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Jupiter 0.6°
  • Ceres square Sun 2.2°
  • Eros square Uranus 2.8°

Luis’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Luis’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
  • Mars semi-square Neptune 1.0°

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Luis’s cards

Computed from September 6, 1906. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Death

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Luis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q233985 (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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Luis Federico Leloir.

Quick answers about Luis Federico Leloir’s chart

What zodiac sign was Luis Federico Leloir?
Luis Federico Leloir was a Virgo: born September 6, 1906, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Luis Federico Leloir's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 6, 1906 birth.
What was Luis Federico Leloir's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What was Luis Federico Leloir's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Luis Federico Leloir's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Luis Federico Leloir's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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