Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug (born March 25, 1914, Cresco, United States; died 2009), was an American biologist. Borlaug's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Peace Prize and Padma Vibhushan in science & engineering.
Norman Borlaug’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Norman
Norman Borlaug’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Norman in the U.S.?
#1200
US rank in 2025
~254,762
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1914, Norman came 54th among boys and 1,985th among girls, carried by 2,335 American boys and 13 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Norman’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on N (5) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Norman’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1914, 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 Norman apart
Norman Borlaug took the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, at 56.
Training came by way of University of Minnesota.
Cause of death is recorded as non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The family line: married Margaret Gibson.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Norman Borlaug: Deaths from lymphoma in Texas, Lutherans from Iowa and Development specialists.
Elton John (1947) and Aretha Franklin (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Minnesota
- Awards
- Nobel Peace Prize (1970), National Medal of Science (2004) and Congressional Gold Medal (2006)
- Cause of death
- non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and Spanish
- Wikipedia editions
- 82
What the chart says
Norman, according to the stars
Core essence
Norman 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 Norman 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Norman is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Norman needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Norman wants to be loved
Norman 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 Norman creates
How Norman makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Norman 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: Norman is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Norman is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Norman 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 Norman's birth date. Working below.
Where Norman sits
Six lines
Norman’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Norman Borlaug
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cresco 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 Cresco that night
Computed for 43.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Cresco at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 4.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 43.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −46.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cresco, United States
The death is recorded at Dallas, Dallas County in 2009.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Norman Borlaug: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Norman's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No Earth planets · 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 SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Norman Borlaug's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 25, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Norman Borlaug was born on March 25, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Norman Borlaug's birth date, March 25, 1914, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Norman’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Norman Borlaug's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- Norman Borlaug combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Norman’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Pisces 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
stableVenussextileJupiter0.1° to 1.2° orb
Norman’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenussquareMars0.2° to 1.1° orb
Norman’s affections grind against their drive.
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.1° to 1.2° orb
Norman’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.2° to 2.4° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus2.3° orb
stableMercurytrineMars2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.5° to 4.7° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.7° to 5.6° orb
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Norman’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 15°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 12°40′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 15°27′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 27°18′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 13°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Eros sextile Venus 0.9°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 1.3°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.5°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 2.1°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.8°
Norman’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Norman’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.
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 0.0°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.1°
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Norman’s cards
Computed from March 25, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Norman’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q154824 (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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Norman Borlaug at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Norman Borlaug.
Quick answers about Norman Borlaug’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Norman Borlaug?
- Norman Borlaug was an Aries: born March 25, 1914, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Norman Borlaug's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 25, 1914 birth.
- What was Norman Borlaug's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Norman Borlaug's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Norman Borlaug's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Norman Borlaug's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
