Maurice Wilkins
Maurice Wilkins (born December 15, 1916, Pongaroa, New Zealand; died 2004), was a New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist. Wilkins's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Maurice Wilkins’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Maurice
Maurice Wilkins’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Maurice in the U.S.?
#1020
US rank in 2025
~138,943
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1916, Maurice came 100th among boys and 884th among girls, carried by 1,584 American boys and 59 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Maurice’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (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
Maurice’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
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 1916, 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 Maurice apart
Maurice Wilkins took the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1960, at 44.
The classrooms behind this chart: St John's College and King Edward's School.
The family line: married Patricia Ann Chidgey and Ruth Wilkins.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Maurice Wilkins: New Zealand fellows of the Royal Society, Academics of King's College London and British molecular biologists.
Keylor Navas (1986) and Adam Brody (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- St John's College, King Edward's School and University of Birmingham
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962) and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1960)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and New Zealand
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 71
What the chart says
Maurice, according to the stars
Core essence
Maurice is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Maurice 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Maurice 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 Maurice 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 Maurice wants to be loved
Maurice wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Maurice even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Maurice creates
How Maurice 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. Maurice 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: Maurice 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Maurice 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Maurice 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 Maurice's birth date. Working below.
Where Maurice sits
Six lines
Maurice’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 Maurice Wilkins
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pongaroa 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 Pongaroa that night
Computed for 40.54°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Pongaroa was Acamar, in Eridanus, 89.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.5°S, Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Sun 16° below the horizon, Moon down and 72% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Pongaroa, New Zealand
The death is recorded at Blackheath, Royal Borough of Greenwich in 2004.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Maurice Wilkins: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Maurice's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Venus · 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 →Maurice Wilkins at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Maurice Wilkins's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 15, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Maurice Wilkins was born on December 15, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Maurice Wilkins's birth date, December 15, 1916, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Maurice’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maurice Wilkins' date-only chart is Mercury opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Maurice Wilkins combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Maurice’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° 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
stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 5.4° orb
Maurice’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.0° to 1.5° orb
Maurice’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineJupiter2.2° to 3.3° orb
Maurice’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableVenussquareUranus3.6° to 4.8° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.5° to 6.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto6.2° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 5.0° to 16.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Maurice’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 21°52′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 17°04′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 0°29′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 18°22′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 4°12′ (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 conjunction Neptune 0.3°
- Chiron square Sun 0.9°
- Chiron trine Venus 0.9°
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.6°
Maurice’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Maurice’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 quincunx Neptune 0.3°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.9°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
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- Orkun KökçüTurkish-Dutch association football player (born 2000)
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- Keylor Navas1986
- Adam Brody1979
- Charlie Cox1982
- Ronnie Radke1983
- Maude Apatow1997
- Grant Ellis1993
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- Mark StevensAmerican art critic
- Hua HsuAsian-American writer
Other Sagittarius Dragon charts
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- Lawrence H. GipsonAmerican writer
- Marcus Lee HansenAmerican historian
Other Radiant Storytellers
- Jean SimmonsBritish-American actress
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- Kathleen TurnerAmerican actress (born 1954)
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Famous people with Life Path 8
- Iker CasillasSpanish association football player
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Maurice’s cards
Computed from December 15, 1916. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Maurice’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q184659 (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 Maurice Wilkins at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maurice Wilkins.
Quick answers about Maurice Wilkins’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Maurice Wilkins?
- Maurice Wilkins was a Sagittarius: born December 15, 1916, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Maurice Wilkins's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 15, 1916 birth.
- What was Maurice Wilkins's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Maurice Wilkins's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Maurice Wilkins's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Maurice Wilkins's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
