Martin Evans
Martin Evans (born January 1, 1941, Stroud, United Kingdom), aged 85, is an English developmental biologist. Evans's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Knight Bachelor and Copley Medal.
Martin Evans’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Martin
Martin Evans’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Martin in the U.S.?
#335
US rank in 2025
~317,037
Americans share it since 1880
1963
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,605 American boys and 10 girls named Martin in 1941: 85th among boys and 2,977th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Martin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Martin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
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 1940, 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 Martin apart
The William Bate Hardy Prize came in 1993, when Martin Evans was 52.
Martin Evans was taught at University College London and St Dunstan's College.
Wikipedia files Martin Evans under Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales, People from Orpington and English geneticists.
Alicia Keys (1981) and Hailee Steinfeld (1996) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University College London, St Dunstan's College and Christ's College
- Awards
- Copley Medal (2009), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2007) and Clarivate Citation Laureates (2006)
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
What the chart says
Martin, according to the stars
Core essence
Martin is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Martin is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Martin wants to be loved
Martin wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Martin and watch them fall for you again.
How Martin creates
How Martin 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. Martin 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: Martin is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Martin is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Martin runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Martin's birth date. Working below.
Where Martin sits
Six lines
Martin’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Martin Evans
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Stroud 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 Stroud that night
Computed for 51.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Miram stood nearest the zenith over Stroud at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.8° above the horizon in Perseus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
At 51.7°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Stroud at all: they sit past the −38.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 17% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 34° down.
How unusual Martin's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · No Air planets
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 →Martin Evans at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Martin Evans's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 1, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Martin Evans was born on January 1, 1941, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Martin Evans's birth date, January 1, 1941, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Martin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Martin Evans' date-only chart is Mars sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Martin Evans combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Martin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableMarssextileNeptune0.0° to 0.4° orb
Martin’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.1° to 1.7° orb
Martin’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.0° orb
Martin’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.2° to 3.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.3° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.4° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.3° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter4.5° to 5.5° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus4.9° to 5.6° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.6° to 6.1° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.6° to 6.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Martin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 29°40′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 7°22′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 18°32′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 27°44′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.0°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 0.0°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 2.0°
Martin’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Martin’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.
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.5°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.1°
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on January 1
- Alicia Keys1981
- Hailee Steinfeld1996
- Kendrick Lamar1987
- Rivelino1946
- Ludacris1977
- Chad Michael Murray1981
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Frederic ForrestAmerican actor
- Paul WinfieldAmerican actor
- Diane KeatonAmerican actress and film director
Other Capricorn Dragon charts
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- Vinnie JonesBritish footballer and actor
- Graham ChapmanEnglish actor, comedian and writer
- Faye DunawayAmerican actress
Other Steadfast Strategists
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- Austen ChamberlainBritish politician
Famous people with Life Path 8
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Martin’s cards
Computed from January 1, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Martin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q207719 (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 Cardiff University, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Martin Evans at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Martin Evans.
Quick answers about Martin Evans’s chart
- How old is Martin Evans?
- Martin Evans is 85 years old, born January 1, 1941 in Stroud, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Martin Evans?
- Martin Evans is a Capricorn: born January 1, 1941, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Martin Evans's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 1, 1941 birth.
- What is Martin Evans's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Martin Evans's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Martin Evans's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Martin Evans's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
