Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies (born June 23, 1925, Halifax, United Kingdom; died 2017), was a Biochemistry, genetics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007. Smithies's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Clarivate Citation Laureates and Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research.
Oliver Smithies’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Oliver
Oliver Smithies’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Oliver in the U.S.?
#3
US rank in 2025
~270,680
Americans share it since 1880
2024
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1925, Oliver came 151st among boys and 2,737th among girls, carried by 1,049 American boys and 13 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Oliver’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on O (6) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Oliver’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Pearl · Forest
The record
What sets Oliver apart
Alan Turing (1912) and Zinedine Zidane (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Oliver, according to the stars
Core essence
Oliver feels the room before entering it. The core of Oliver is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Oliver, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Oliver wants to be loved
Oliver wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Oliver gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Oliver creates
How Oliver makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Oliver creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Oliver 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Oliver 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 Oliver leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Oliver 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 Oliver's birth date. Working below.
Where Oliver sits
Six lines
Oliver’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Oliver Smithies
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Halifax 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 Halifax that night
Computed for 53.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Halifax was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 85.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.
Halifax sits at 53.7°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −36.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Halifax on any night.
Sun -4° below the horizon, Moon up and 6% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Oliver's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Cancer · 1 unaspected planet · No Air 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Oliver Smithies's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 23, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Oliver Smithies was born on June 23, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Oliver Smithies's birth date, June 23, 1925, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Oliver’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Oliver Smithies' date-only chart is Venus opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Oliver Smithies combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Oliver’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Cancer or Leo 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
stableMoontrineUranus0.1° to 6.0° orb
Oliver’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.4° to 3.6° orb
Oliver’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter1.5° to 2.8° orb
Oliver’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMarstrineUranus2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.4° to 4.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.2° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.5° to 6.5° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn6.0° to 7.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.9° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water8 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Oliver’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 27°42′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 26°07′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 1°25′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 20°20′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Chiron square Mars 0.5°
- Ceres square Uranus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 1.2°
Oliver’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Oliver’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.2°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.1°
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Also born on June 23
- Alan Turing1912
- Zinedine Zidane1972
- Melissa Rauch1980
- Lee Jae-yong1968
- Clarence Thomas1948
- Selma Blair1972
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- Juan PerónPresident of Argentina
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Other Steadfast Strategists
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Oliver’s cards
Computed from June 23, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Oliver’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q216318 (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 Douglas A. Lockard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Oliver Smithies at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Oliver Smithies.
Quick answers about Oliver Smithies’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Oliver Smithies?
- Oliver Smithies was a Cancer: born June 23, 1925, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Oliver Smithies's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 23, 1925 birth.
- What was Oliver Smithies's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Oliver Smithies's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Oliver Smithies's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Oliver Smithies's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
