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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Michael
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
Michael ranked 5th among boys and 602nd among girls in 1949, the year of this birth, with 60,047 American boys and 188 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
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
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
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 1949, 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 W. Young took the Gruber Prize in Neuroscience in 2009, at 60.
Training came by way of L. D. Bell High School and University of Texas at Austin.
Wikipedia's editors put Michael W. Young under University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni, Scientists from Miami and American chronobiologists.
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) and Amancio Ortega (1936) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- L. D. Bell High School and University of Texas at Austin
- 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 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. Working below.
Where Michael sits
Six lines
Michael’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Michael W. Young
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Miami 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 Miami that night
Computed for 25.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Miami at 9 p.m. that evening: Asellus Australis of Cancer, within 9.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 25.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.
How unusual Michael's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Jupiter · 3-planet stellium in Aries · 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 →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Pisces or Aries 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
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
stableMercurysquareUranus3.0° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.8° to 5.1° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.4° to 6.6° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.8° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 9°03′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 11°26′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 26°36′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 5°07′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 27°50′ (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 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°
Michael’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Michael’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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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
Computed from March 28, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1929672 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Michael W. Young's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Michael W. Young's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
