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Moungi Bawendi

Moungi Bawendi (born March 15, 1961, Paris, France), aged 65, is an American chemist of French and Tunisian descent. Bawendi's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and Clarivate Citation Laureates.

Moungi Bawendi’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Moungi Bawendi’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.

What Moungi’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

6

Soul Urge · being needed

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on M (4) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Moungi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver

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 1961, 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 Moungi apart

Moungi Bawendi took the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering in 1991, at 30.

University of Chicago and Harvard University shaped the training.

Moungi Bawendi was born to M. Salah Baouendi.

Wikipedia's editors put Moungi Bawendi under Tunisian Nobel laureates, Colloid chemists and French physical chemists.

The same date carries Andrei Kosogov. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
University of Chicago and Harvard University
Awards
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (2006), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002) and Clarivate Citation Laureates (2020)
Citizenship
United States and France
Languages
French and English
Wikipedia editions
44

What the chart says

Moungi, according to the stars

Core essence

Moungi feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Moungi 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.

How Moungi wants to be loved

Moungi 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 Moungi creates

How Moungi 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. Moungi 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: Moungi 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Moungi 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Moungi does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Moungi's birth date. Working below.

Where Moungi sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Moungi

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Moungi

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

PrivateExpressive
Moungi

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Moungi

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

PracticalVisionary
Moungi

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Moungi

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 Moungi Bawendi

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

Moungi’s birth-night reference starTalithawhite · Ursa MajorTalitha, in Ursa Major. A white star, 77.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Talitha →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 65° 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 Paris that night

Computed for 48.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Talitha stood nearest the zenith over Paris at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 48.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −41.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 20° below the horizon.

How unusual Moungi's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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.

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The quick version

Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Moungi Bawendi's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 15, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Metal Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Moungi Bawendi was born on March 15, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 8

Turns effort into standing.

Moungi Bawendi's birth date, March 15, 1961, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Moungi’s chart

Moungi’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.1° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 0.6° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.7° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 1° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.5° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.5° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.9° orbSun in Pisces · 24°38′☉24°Moon in Pisces · 6°30′☽6°Mercury in Aquarius · 27°38′☿27°Venus in Aries · 28°32′♀28°Mars in Cancer · 7°08′♂7°Jupiter in Aquarius · 0°01′♃0°Saturn in Capricorn · 27°29′♄27°Uranus in Leo · 22°30′ · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Scorpio · 11°02′ · retrograde♆℞11°Pluto in Virgo · 6°25′ · 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

  • stableMoonoppositionPluto0.1° to 7.4° orb

    Moungi’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMarssextilePluto0.5° to 0.9° orb

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

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.6° to 1.1° orb

    Moungi’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn1.0° to 1.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter1.5° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.4° to 3.3° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune3.7° to 4.1° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.8° to 5.5° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus5.9° to 6.1° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Moungi’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 3°31′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries or Pisces during this date

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 20°50′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 0°20′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 4°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.0°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Eros square Uranus 1.7°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 2.6°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 2.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.8°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 2.9°

Moungi’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune6 pts

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

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Moungi’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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 0.4°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 2.1°

Born the same day as Moungi

Andrei Kosogov was born on March 15, 1961 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 48.9°N, Paris keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Moungi’s cards

Computed from March 15, 1961. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Storyteller

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Moungi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15433043 (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 US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Moungi Bawendi at Wikipedia, nanocluster.mit.edu and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Moungi Bawendi.

Quick answers about Moungi Bawendi’s chart

How old is Moungi Bawendi?
Moungi Bawendi is 65 years old, born March 15, 1961 in Paris, France.
What zodiac sign is Moungi Bawendi?
Moungi Bawendi is a Pisces: born March 15, 1961, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Moungi Bawendi's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 15, 1961 birth.
What is Moungi Bawendi's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Moungi Bawendi's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Moungi Bawendi'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 is Moungi Bawendi's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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