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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, Chinese zodiac is 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

Michael ranked 9th among boys and 563rd among girls in 1944, the year of this birth, with 26,717 American boys and 168 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Michael’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Michael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1944, 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 Michael apart

Michael Rosbash took the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007, at 63.

Newton North High School and California Institute of Technology shaped the training.

Wikipedia's editors put Michael Rosbash under Scientists from Kansas City, Missouri, American chronobiologists and Brandeis University faculty.

Sanae Takaichi (1961) and Rachel Weisz (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Newton North High School, California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2017), Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2011) and Canada Gairdner International Award (2012)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
47

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. Working below.

Where Michael sits

Six lines

Michael’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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

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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Kansas City that night

Computed for 39.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Kansas City at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.2° above the horizon in Auriga.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 39.0°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 Kansas City at all: they sit past the −51.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 20° down.

How unusual Michael's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Earth 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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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.

What Pisces means →

Wood Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Michael Rosbash was born on March 7, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

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.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Michael’s chart

Michael’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 27° Leo depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableMarssextileJupiter0.9° to 1.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars1.4° to 2.2° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus2.0° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn2.4° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars2.9° to 3.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Michael’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Michael’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.

  • 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°

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Michael’s cards

Computed from March 7, 1944. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Storyteller

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

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

The same Michael Rosbash at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Michael Rosbash's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Michael Rosbash's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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