Mario Capecchi
Mario Capecchi (born October 6, 1937, Verona, Italy), aged 89, is a Molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate. Capecchi's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology and Wolf Prize in Medicine.
Mario Capecchi’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Mario
Mario Capecchi’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Mario in the U.S.?
#438
US rank in 2025
~152,403
Americans share it since 1897
1980
its peak year
In 1937, 271 American boys were registered Mario — 330th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mario’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on M (4) and closes on O (6). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mario’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1937, 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 Mario apart
The Canada Gairdner International Award came in 1993, when Mario Capecchi was 56.
Mario Capecchi was taught at George School and Antioch University.
On Wikipedia the categories read Scientists from Salt Lake City, George School alumni and Antioch College alumni.
Ernest Walton (1903) and Riccardo Giacconi (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- George School, Antioch University and Antioch College
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2007), March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology (2005) and National Medal of Science (2001)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
What the chart says
Mario, according to the stars
Core essence
Mario makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Mario is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Mario wants to be loved
Mario wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Mario and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Mario creates
How Mario makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Mario creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Mario 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Mario is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Mario does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Mario's birth date. Working below.
Where Mario sits
Six lines
Mario’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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Mario Capecchi
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Verona 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 Verona that night
Computed for 45.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Verona at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.6° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
At 45.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −44.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 5% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 33° below the horizon.
How unusual Mario's chart is
Chart pattern score
36 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · 2 planets at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Mario Capecchi's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 6, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Mario Capecchi was born on October 6, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Mario Capecchi's birth date, October 6, 1937, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Mario’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mario Capecchi's date-only chart is Saturn trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mario Capecchi combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Mario’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrineUranus0.3° to 1.6° orb
Mario’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturntrinePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb
Mario’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineNeptune1.3° orb
Mario’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextilePluto2.3° to 3.8° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn2.9° to 3.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.1° to 4.7° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter4.0° to 5.1° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.1° to 6.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune5.3° to 6.4° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 6.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Mario’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 1°13′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 16°07′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 6°58′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 6°08′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 10°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.8°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.9°
Mario’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Mario’s chart
Grand trine · Venus, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.0°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.6°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.3°
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Mario’s cards
Computed from October 6, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mario’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q215574 (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 Thaler Tamas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mario Capecchi at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mario Capecchi.
Quick answers about Mario Capecchi’s chart
- How old is Mario Capecchi?
- Mario Capecchi is 89 years old, born October 6, 1937 in Verona, Italy.
- What zodiac sign is Mario Capecchi?
- Mario Capecchi is a Libra: born October 6, 1937, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Mario Capecchi's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 6, 1937 birth.
- What is Mario Capecchi's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mario Capecchi's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mario Capecchi's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mario Capecchi's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
