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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Ox, with 
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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.
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Oliver’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Oliver Smithies, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Cancer or Leo 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.
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
Oliver’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.4° to 4.6° orb
Oliver’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.2° to 5.4° orb
Oliver’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
Oliver’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareUranus5.5° to 6.5° orb
Oliver’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineSaturn6.0° to 7.0° orb
Oliver’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.9° to 7.0° orb
Oliver’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 27°42′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Oliver may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresGemini 26°07′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Oliver feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosGemini 1°25′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Oliver is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaGemini 20°20′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Oliver needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Oliver guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Chiron square Mars 0.5°
- Ceres square Uranus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 1.2°
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°).
Oliver’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. ☽ 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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Oliver is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Oliver’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 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 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.
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.2°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Oliver Smithies, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Oliver’s cards
Every card is computed from June 23, 1925, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Oliver Smithies, 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
Oliver’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q216318, 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 Douglas A. Lockard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Oliver Smithies at Wikipedia.
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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
- 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 time was Oliver Smithies 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 was Oliver Smithies's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the June 23, 1925 birth date.
- What was Oliver Smithies's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 23, 1925 birth date.
- 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.
