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Omar M. Yaghi

Omar M. Yaghi (born February 9, 1965, Amman, Jordan), aged 61, is an American chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965). Yaghi's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Albert Einstein World Award of Science and Wilhelm Exner Medal.

Omar M. Yaghi’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Omar M. Yaghi’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Omar in the U.S.?

#260

US rank in 2025

~106,894

Americans share it since 1880

2007

its peak year

Omar ranked 621st in 1965, the year of this birth, with 150 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Omar’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

8

Soul Urge · achievement

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on O (6) and closes on R (9).

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

Omar’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Ivory · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1965, 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 Omar apart

Omar M. Yaghi took the Newcomb Cleveland Prize in 2007, at 42.

The classrooms behind this chart: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and State University of New York at Albany.

Wikipedia's editors put Omar M. Yaghi under People from Amman, Jordanian Nobel laureates and Palestinian Nobel laureates.

J. M. Coetzee (1940) and Tom Hiddleston (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and State University of New York at Albany
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2025), Wilhelm Exner Medal (2023) and Gregori Aminoff Prize (2019)
Citizenship
United States and Jordan
Languages
English and Arabic
Wikipedia editions
48

What the chart says

Omar, according to the stars

Core essence

Omar is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Omar is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Omar is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Omar needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Omar wants to be loved

Omar wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Omar be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Omar creates

How Omar makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Omar builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Omar is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Omar is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Omar channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Omar's birth date. Working below.

Where Omar sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Omar

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Omar

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

PrivateExpressive
Omar

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Omar

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

PracticalVisionary
Omar

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Omar

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 Omar M. Yaghi

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

Omar’s birth-night reference starMebsutayellow · GeminiMebsuta, in Gemini. A yellow star, 83.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mebsuta →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 68° 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 Amman that night

Computed for 31.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Amman was Mebsuta, in Gemini, 83.2° up.

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

From 31.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −58.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Amman on any night.

Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon up and 55% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Omar's chart is

Chart pattern score

65 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Sun · 1 unaspected planet

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

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Omar M. Yaghi's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 9, 1965, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Wood Snake

Says less than it knows.

Omar M. Yaghi was born on February 9, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Omar M. Yaghi's birth date, February 9, 1965, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Omar’s chart

Omar’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.5° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 0.6° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.1° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.9° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 2° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.4° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.9° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3.4° orbSun in Aquarius · 20°27′☉20°Moon in Taurus · 21°03′☽21°Mercury in Aquarius · 9°39′☿9°Venus in Aquarius · 5°07′♀5°Mars in Virgo · 27°12′ · retrograde♂℞27°Jupiter in Taurus · 17°36′♃17°Saturn in Pisces · 5°32′♄5°Uranus in Virgo · 13°44′ · retrograde♅℞13°Neptune in Scorpio · 19°58′♆19°Pluto in Virgo · 15°39′ · retrograde♇℞15°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Omar’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 7.0° orb

    Omar’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 7.9° orb

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

  • stableJupitertrinePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto1.9° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter2.4° to 3.3° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.3° to 4.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° orb

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 16°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 15°50′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 15°11′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 5°33′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 13°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Saturn 0.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.1°
  • Eros trine Pluto 0.5°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.0°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 1.0°
  • Eros trine Uranus 1.4°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.0°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 2.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.9°

Omar’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Omar’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Neptune, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.0°
  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.1°
  • Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
  • Sun biquintile Mars 0.7°

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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?

Omar’s cards

Computed from February 9, 1965. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Omar’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q743252 (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 File:Yaghi3.jpg: Boasap (talk) derivative work: Michał Ski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Omar M. Yaghi at Wikipedia and chemistry.berkeley.edu.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Omar M. Yaghi.

Quick answers about Omar M. Yaghi’s chart

How old is Omar M. Yaghi?
Omar M. Yaghi is 61 years old, born February 9, 1965 in Amman, Jordan.
What zodiac sign is Omar M. Yaghi?
Omar M. Yaghi is an Aquarius: born February 9, 1965, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Omar M. Yaghi's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 9, 1965 birth.
What is Omar M. Yaghi's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Omar M. Yaghi's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Omar M. Yaghi's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Omar M. Yaghi's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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