Mary E. Brunkow
Mary E. Brunkow (born April 23, 1961, Portland, United States), aged 65, is an American molecular biologist and immunologist. Brunkow's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Mary E. Brunkow’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Mary
Mary E. Brunkow’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Mary in the U.S.?
#125
US rank in 2025
~4,156,654
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
In 1961, 47,682 American girls and 168 boys were registered Mary — 1st among girls and 611th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mary’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mary’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Mary apart
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine came in 2025, when Mary E. Brunkow was 64.
Mary E. Brunkow was taught at Princeton University.
On Wikipedia the categories read American women molecular biologists, St. Mary's Academy (Portland, Oregon) alumni and Scientists from Portland, Oregon.
George Lopez shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2025)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Mary, according to the stars
Core essence
Mary is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Mary is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Mary needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Mary needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Mary wants to be loved
Mary 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 Mary creates
How Mary 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. Mary 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: Mary 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Mary 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Mary does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Mary's birth date. Working below.
Where Mary sits
Six lines
Mary’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Mary E. Brunkow
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Portland 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 Portland that night
Computed for 45.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Portland at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 45.5°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 −44.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 62% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.
How unusual Mary's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · Venus retrograde · 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.
Score your own chart →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Mary E. Brunkow's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 23, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Mary E. Brunkow was born on April 23, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Mary E. Brunkow's birth date, April 23, 1961, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Mary’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mary E. Brunkow's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Venus, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Mary E. Brunkow combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Mary’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Leo 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
stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 1.3° orb
Mary’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMoontrineVenus0.1° to 6.8° orb
Mary’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareJupiter1.7° to 2.6° orb
Mary’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.7° to 3.7° orb
stableSuntrinePluto1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.3° to 6.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.6° to 6.0° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.9° to 6.0° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune6.2° to 7.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Mary’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 5°40′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 15°35′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 11°49′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 29°06′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 9°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.0°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.2°
Mary’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Mary’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.1°
Born the same day as Mary
George Lopez was born on April 23, 1961 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Portland, at 45.5°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Mary
Other immunologists
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Born in United States
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on April 23
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Other Radiant Scholars
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- Jon RahmSpanish professional golfer
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Mary’s cards
Computed from April 23, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mary’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q114564137 (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 US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mary E. Brunkow at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mary E. Brunkow.
Quick answers about Mary E. Brunkow’s chart
- How old is Mary E. Brunkow?
- Mary E. Brunkow is 65 years old, born April 23, 1961 in Portland, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Mary E. Brunkow?
- Mary E. Brunkow is a Taurus: born April 23, 1961, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Mary E. Brunkow's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 23, 1961 birth.
- What is Mary E. Brunkow's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mary E. Brunkow's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mary E. Brunkow's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mary E. Brunkow's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
