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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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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.
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its peak year
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Maurice’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Maurice sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Maurice Wilkins, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Maurice’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.1° to 4.2° orb
Maurice’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.9° orb
Maurice’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.5° to 6.3° orb
Maurice’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionPluto6.2° to 7.0° orb
Maurice’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 21°52′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Maurice absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresVirgo 17°04′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Maurice caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosLibra 0°29′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Maurice is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 18°22′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Maurice is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 4°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Maurice is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Maurice’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Maurice is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Maurice’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Maurice Wilkins, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Maurice’s cards
Every card is computed from December 15, 1916, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Maurice Wilkins, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Maurice’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q184659, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Maurice Wilkins at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
- 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 time was Maurice Wilkins born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Maurice Wilkins's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the December 15, 1916 birth date.
- What was Maurice Wilkins's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 15, 1916 birth date.
- 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.
