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Mario Molina

Mario Molina (born March 19, 1943, Mexico City; died 2020), was a Mexican chemical engineer. Molina's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Heinz Award.

Mario Molina’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Water Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Mario Molina’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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

The SSA recorded 331 American boys named Mario in 1943: 337th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Mario’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

5

Soul Urge · freedom

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on M (4) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as 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

3 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement came in 1983, when Mario Molina was 40.

Study took Mario Molina to National Autonomous University of Mexico and University of California, Berkeley.

Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction.

The family line: married Luisa T Molina.

Wikipedia files Mario Molina under Mexican chemists, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead authors and Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

Bruce Willis (1955) and Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of California, Berkeley and University of Freiburg
Awards
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1995) and Willard Gibbs Award (1998)
Cause of death
myocardial infarction
Citizenship
United States and Mexico
Languages
Spanish and English
Wikipedia editions
71

What the chart says

Mario, according to the stars

Core essence

Mario feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Mario is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Mario wants to be loved

Mario wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Mario is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Mario goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Mario

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Mario

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

PrivateExpressive
Mario

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Mario

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Mario

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Mario

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Mario Molina

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mexico City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Mario’s birth-night reference starAsellus Australiswarm orange · CancerAsellus Australis, in Cancer. A warm orange star, 82.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Asellus Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 44.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Mexico City that night

Computed for 19.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Mexico City at 9 p.m. that evening: Asellus Australis of Cancer, within 7.4° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

Mexico City sits at 19.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The Moon, 97% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Mexico City, Mexico

The death is recorded at Mexico City, Mexico in 2020.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Mario Molina: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Mario's chart is

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Earth planets · 1 planet 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.

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The quick version

Pisces Sun

Soft edges, deep pull.

Mario Molina's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 19, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Water Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Mario Molina was born on March 19, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Mario Molina's birth date, March 19, 1943, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Mario’s chart

Mario’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.5° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.2° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.3° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 2° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.5° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3° orbMars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.3° orbSun in Pisces · 28°16′☉28°Moon in Virgo · 3°12′☽3°Mercury in Pisces · 14°04′☿14°Venus in Aries · 27°20′♀27°Mars in Aquarius · 8°24′♂8°Jupiter in Cancer · 15°16′♃15°Saturn in Gemini · 7°09′♄7°Uranus in Gemini · 1°15′♅1°Neptune in Libra · 0°46′ · retrograde♆℞0°Pluto in Leo · 5°06′ · retrograde♇℞5°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
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

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter0.3° to 2.1° orb

    Mario’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune0.5° orb

    Mario’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn0.9° to 1.6° orb

    Mario’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune2.0° to 3.0° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus2.5° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto2.9° to 3.7° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.9° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 23°58′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 23°17′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 9°54′ (moves 0.84° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 1°11′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 22°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.4°
  • Eros square Mars 1.5°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 2.9°

Mario’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Mario’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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.7°

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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?

Mario’s cards

Computed from March 19, 1943. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Mario’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19045 (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 Janwikifoto, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Mario Molina 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 Molina.

Quick answers about Mario Molina’s chart

What zodiac sign was Mario Molina?
Mario Molina was a Pisces: born March 19, 1943, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Mario Molina's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 19, 1943 birth.
What was Mario Molina's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Mario Molina's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Mario Molina's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Mario Molina's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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