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Patrick Blackett

Patrick Blackett (born November 18, 1897, London, United Kingdom; died 1974), was a British physicist. Blackett served as member of the House of Lords and Langworthy Professor. Blackett's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of Merit and honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg.

Patrick Blackett’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Patrick Blackett’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#235

US rank in 2025

~689,424

Americans share it since 1880

1964

its peak year

In 1897, 210 American boys were registered Patrick — 87th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Patrick’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

7

Soul Urge · understanding

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on P (7) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.

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

Patrick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Crimson · Scarlet

The record

What sets Patrick apart

Margaret Atwood (1939) and Chloë Sevigny (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Patrick, according to the stars

Core essence

Patrick does not do surface. The core of Patrick is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Patrick is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Patrick is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Patrick needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Patrick wants to be loved

Patrick wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Patrick even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Patrick creates

How Patrick makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Patrick 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: Patrick is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Patrick is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Patrick runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Patrick's birth date. Working below.

Where Patrick sits

Six lines

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Intimate circleWide network
Patrick

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Patrick

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Patrick

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Patrick

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Patrick

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Patrick

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

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

Patrick’s birth-night reference starSchedarwarm orange · CassiopeiaSchedar, in Cassiopeia. A warm orange star, 84.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Schedar →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 48.6° 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 London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at London at 9 p.m. that evening: Schedar of Cassiopeia, within 5.2° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.

London sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from London on any night.

Sun 44° below the horizon, Moon down and 37% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Patrick's chart is

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · No Earth 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.

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Patrick Blackett at a glance

Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Patrick Blackett's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 18, 1897, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Fire Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Patrick Blackett was born on November 18, 1897, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Patrick Blackett's birth date, November 18, 1897, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Patrick’s chart

Patrick’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.2° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.5° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.7° orbMars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.8° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.3° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.7° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.2° orbSun in Scorpio · 26°27′☉26°Moon in Virgo · 7°21′☽7°Mercury in Sagittarius · 2°21′☿2°Venus in Scorpio · 5°02′♀5°Mars in Scorpio · 27°21′♂27°Jupiter in Libra · 4°00′♃4°Saturn in Sagittarius · 2°30′♄2°Uranus in Scorpio · 29°08′♅29°Neptune in Gemini · 21°48′ · retrograde♆℞21°Pluto in Gemini · 14°03′ · retrograde♇℞14°

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Patrick’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars0.7° to 1.0° orb

    Patrick’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter1.0° to 2.4° orb

    Patrick’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.5° to 2.1° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn1.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus2.2° to 3.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.5° to 4.0° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.6° to 5.4° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus4.8° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.9° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.6° to 6.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 19°53′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 11°35′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 9°36′ (moves 0.77° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 8°46′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Patrick’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Neptune, Pluto; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Patrick’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, Mars, UranusThree 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.

  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.0°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°

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Patrick’s cards

Computed from November 18, 1897. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Patrick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q184499 (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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Patrick Blackett at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Patrick Blackett.

Quick answers about Patrick Blackett’s chart

What zodiac sign was Patrick Blackett?
Patrick Blackett was a Scorpio: born November 18, 1897, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Patrick Blackett's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 18, 1897 birth.
What was Patrick Blackett's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Patrick Blackett's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Patrick Blackett's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Patrick Blackett's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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