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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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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

US Social Security Administration public records

Luis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Luis sits

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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.

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

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. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.

What stands out in Luis’s chart

Luis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Luis Federico Leloir, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Aries or 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.

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′Saturn in Pisces · 11°32′ · retrograde11°Uranus in Capricorn · 4°32′ · retrogradeNeptune 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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Conjunction
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

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.

  • 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

    Luis’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.9° to 1.9° orb

    Luis’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarssextilePluto2.1° to 2.8° orb

    Luis’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb

    Luis’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenussextileMars2.4° to 2.8° orb

    Luis’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto3.1° to 4.7° orb

    Luis’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrinePluto4.6° to 5.6° orb

    Luis’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn4.7° to 4.9° orb

    Luis’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 5.5° orb

    Luis’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

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

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.

  • ChironAquarius 8°21′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Luis making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

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

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Luis feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

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

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Luis is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • HygieaAquarius 8°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    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. Luis is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Luis that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Eros square Jupiter 0.6°
  • Ceres square Sun 2.2°
  • Eros square Uranus 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°).

Luis’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. 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

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Luis 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 Luis’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Luis Federico Leloir, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Luis’s cards

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Death

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The Tidal Explorer

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

yang Fire

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

yang Fire

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Water

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Luis Federico Leloir, 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

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

The same Luis Federico Leloir 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse.
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 time was Luis Federico Leloir 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 was Luis Federico Leloir's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the September 6, 1906 birth date.
What was Luis Federico Leloir's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 6, 1906 birth date.
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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