Michael W. Young
Michael W. Young (born March 28, 1949, Miami, United States), aged 77, is an American geneticist, chronobiologist. Young's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Gruber Prize in Neuroscience and Canada Gairdner International Award.
Michael W. Young’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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Michael W. Young’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Michael, according to the stars
Core essence
Michael leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Michael is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Michael wants to be loved
Michael 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 Michael creates
How Michael makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Michael creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Michael 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Michael is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Michael gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Michael's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Michael sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Michael W. Young's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 28, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Michael W. Young was born on March 28, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Michael W. Young's birth date, March 28, 1949, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Michael’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michael W. Young's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Michael W. Young combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Michael’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Michael W. Young, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableMoonsquareUranus0.0° to 6.8° orb
Michael’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb
Michael’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMars2.3° to 2.5° orb
Michael’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.3° to 2.8° orb
Michael’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMercurysquareUranus3.0° to 4.8° orb
Michael’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.5° to 3.6° orb
Michael’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.8° to 5.1° orb
Michael’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareUranus5.4° to 6.6° orb
Michael’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.8° to 6.8° orb
Michael’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 6.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
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 ℞Sagittarius 9°03′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Michael building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresLeo 11°26′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Michael is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosCapricorn 26°36′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Michael is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 5°07′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Michael is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 27°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Michael is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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 sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.1°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.9°
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. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Michael is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Venus, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Yod onto Jupiter · Saturn, Uranus, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Mars biquintile Saturn 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.3°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 1.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.2°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 2.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Michael W. Young, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Michael’s cards
Every card is computed from March 28, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Michael W. Young, 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 Q1929672, 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 Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michael W. Young at Wikipedia and rockefeller.edu.
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 W. Young.
Quick answers about Michael W. Young’s chart
- How old is Michael W. Young?
- Michael W. Young is 77 years old, born March 28, 1949 in Miami, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Michael W. Young?
- Michael W. Young is an Aries: born March 28, 1949, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- What is Michael W. Young's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 28, 1949 birth.
- What time was Michael W. Young 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 W. Young's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the March 28, 1949 birth date.
- What is Michael W. Young's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 28, 1949 birth date.
- Where is Michael W. Young's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Michael W. Young's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
