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Michael Rosbash

Michael Rosbash (born March 7, 1944, Kansas City, United States), aged 82, is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Rosbash's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and Canada Gairdner International Award.

Michael Rosbash’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Michael Rosbash’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Storyteller

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Michael in the U.S.?

#21

US rank in 2025

~4,448,633

Americans share it since 1880

1957

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

1 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green

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What the chart says

Michael, according to the stars

Core essence

Michael feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Michael is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Michael 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 Michael 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 Michael wants to be loved

Michael wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Michael be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Michael creates

How Michael makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Michael creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Michael is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Michael is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Michael leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Michael scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Michael's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Michael sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Michael

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Michael

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Michael

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Michael

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Michael

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Michael

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Michael Rosbash

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kansas City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Michael’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 79.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 71.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Michael Rosbash in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Soft edges, deep pull.

Michael Rosbash's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 7, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Wood Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Michael Rosbash was born on March 7, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Michael Rosbash's birth date, March 7, 1944, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Michael’s chart

Michael’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Michael Rosbash, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 27° 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.3° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 0.6° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.9° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.2° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.5° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.7° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.8° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 1.8° orbSun in Pisces · 17°01′☉17°Moon in Leo · 21°59′☽21°Mercury in Pisces · 8°01′☿8°Venus in Aquarius · 18°26′♀18°Mars in Gemini · 20°13′♂20°Jupiter in Leo · 19°02′ · retrograde♃℞19°Saturn in Gemini · 19°55′♄19°Uranus in Gemini · 5°05′♅5°Neptune in Libra · 3°19′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Leo · 6°47′ · retrograde♇℞6°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter0.0° to 1.3° orb

    Michael’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.1° to 0.5° orb

    Michael’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn0.8° to 1.0° orb

    Michael’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn0.9° to 2.1° orb

    Michael’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssextileJupiter0.9° to 1.4° orb

    Michael’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrineMars1.4° to 2.2° orb

    Michael’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb

    Michael’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.7° orb

    Michael’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus2.0° to 3.8° orb

    Michael’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn2.4° to 3.4° orb

    Michael’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsquareMars2.9° to 3.5° orb

    Michael’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb

    Michael’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Michael’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 12°18′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Michael turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 26°49′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Michael feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 12°00′ (moves 0.57° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Michael is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 11°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Michael carrying stress in the body until it is named.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 2°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Michael exacting with themselves first.

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°).

Michael’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. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Michael is read as tuned to what is not said.

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 Michael’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.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.1°
  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.7°
  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.2°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
  • Mars semi-square Pluto 1.6°
  • Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.9°
  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.0°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Michael Rosbash, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Michael’s cards

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The Gilded Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Michael Rosbash, 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

Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1297741, 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 John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Michael Rosbash 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 Michael Rosbash.

Quick answers about Michael Rosbash’s chart

How old is Michael Rosbash?
Michael Rosbash is 82 years old, born March 7, 1944 in Kansas City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Michael Rosbash?
Michael Rosbash is a Pisces: born March 7, 1944, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey.
What is Michael Rosbash's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 7, 1944 birth.
What time was Michael Rosbash 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 is Michael Rosbash's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the March 7, 1944 birth date.
What is Michael Rosbash's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 7, 1944 birth date.
Where is Michael Rosbash's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Michael Rosbash's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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