Martin Rodbell
Martin Rodbell (born December 1, 1925, Baltimore, United States; died 1998), was an American biochemist. Rodbell's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award and Richard Lounsbery Award.
Martin Rodbell’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Martin
Martin Rodbell’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
Of the names registered in 1925, Martin came 83rd among boys and 2,722nd among girls, carried by 2,417 American boys and 13 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Martin’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 M (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest
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 1925, 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
Martin Rodbell took the Canada Gairdner International Award in 1984, at 59.
Johns Hopkins University shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Martin Rodbell was married Barbara Ledermann.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Martin Rodbell: Anne Frank, Scientists from Baltimore and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty.
Andrew Tate (1986) and Zoë Kravitz (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Johns Hopkins University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1994), Canada Gairdner International Award (1984) and Richard Lounsbery Award (1987)
- Cause of death
- multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 49
What the chart says
Martin, according to the stars
Core essence
Martin is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Martin is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Martin wants to be loved
Martin wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Martin you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Martin 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: 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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Rodbell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Baltimore 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 Baltimore that night
Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Almach stood nearest the zenith over Baltimore at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.7° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 39.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Baltimore at all: they sit past the −50.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 49° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Baltimore, United States
The death is recorded at Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1998.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Martin Rodbell: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Martin's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Uranus · 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.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Martin Rodbell's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 1, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Martin Rodbell was born on December 1, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Martin Rodbell's birth date, December 1, 1925, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Martin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Martin Rodbell's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Martin Rodbell combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Martin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableJupitersextileUranus0.6° to 0.8° orb
Martin’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrinePluto1.9° to 2.6° orb
Martin’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
Martin’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.4° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.5° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.1° to 5.3° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus5.6° to 5.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn7.2° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Martin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°17′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 24°14′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 25°14′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 23°05′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 8°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.1°
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.8°
- Eros square Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.5°
- Chiron square Venus 1.9°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.0°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.0°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.9°
- Ceres trine Mercury 3.0°
- Eros square Jupiter 3.0°
Martin’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 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.
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.1°
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on December 1
- Andrew Tate1986
- Zoë Kravitz1988
- Chanel Iman1990
- Robert Irwin2003
- Bette Midler1945
- Janelle Monáe1985
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
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- Charles R. MacauleyAmerican illustrator and editorial cartoonist
- Warren L. LerudeAmerican journalist and professor of journalism
Other Sagittarius Ox charts
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Other Steadfast Healers
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- Minka KellyAmerican actress
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Famous people with Life Path 3
- Artturi Ilmari VirtanenFinnish chemist and professor
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Martin’s cards
Computed from December 1, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Martin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q60031 (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 authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Martin Rodbell 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 Rodbell.
Quick answers about Martin Rodbell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Martin Rodbell?
- Martin Rodbell was a Sagittarius: born December 1, 1925, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Martin Rodbell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 1, 1925 birth.
- What was Martin Rodbell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Martin Rodbell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Martin Rodbell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Martin Rodbell's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
