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Phillip Sharp

Phillip Sharp (born June 6, 1944, Falmouth, United States), aged 82, is an American biologist. Sharp's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award and Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.

Phillip Sharp’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Phillip Sharp’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

#651

US rank in 2025

~312,891

Americans share it since 1880

1960

its peak year

The SSA recorded 3,002 American boys and 8 girls named Phillip in 1944: 83rd among boys and 3,620th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Phillip’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

1

Soul Urge · independence

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on P (7) and closes on P (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 7 and 9: analysis against empathy.

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

Phillip’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern

Rose pink · Lilac · Forest

The record

What sets Phillip apart

Ryan Higa (1990) and QTCinderella (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Phillip, according to the stars

Core essence

Phillip is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Phillip needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Phillip is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Phillip needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Phillip wants to be loved

Phillip wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Phillip like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Phillip creates

How Phillip makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Phillip creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Phillip is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Phillip is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Phillip fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Phillip's birth date. Working below.

Where Phillip sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Phillip

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Phillip

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

PrivateExpressive
Phillip

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Phillip

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

PracticalVisionary
Phillip

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Phillip

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Phillip Sharp

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Falmouth 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 Falmouth that night

Computed for 38.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Falmouth was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 84.2° up.

Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Falmouth sits at 38.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −51.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Falmouth on any night.

Sun 0° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.

How unusual Phillip's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · No Water 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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Phillip Sharp in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Phillip Sharp's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 6, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Wood Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Phillip Sharp was born on June 6, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Phillip Sharp's birth date, June 6, 1944, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Phillip’s chart

Phillip’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.6° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.8° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.4° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 1.6° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.7° orbMars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.8° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.4° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.2° orbSun in Gemini · 15°47′☉15°Moon in Sagittarius · 14°14′☽14°Mercury in Taurus · 22°54′☿22°Venus in Gemini · 10°12′♀10°Mars in Leo · 8°46′♂8°Jupiter in Leo · 21°14′♃21°Saturn in Gemini · 28°14′♄28°Uranus in Gemini · 9°21′♅9°Neptune in Libra · 1°28′ · retrograde♆℞1°Pluto in Leo · 6°55′♇6°

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

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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

  • stableSunoppositionMoon0.0° to 7.8° orb

    Phillip’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus0.3° to 1.4° orb

    Phillip’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableMarssextileUranus0.3° to 0.9° orb

    Phillip’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter1.1° to 2.3° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars1.1° to 1.8° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.6° to 2.1° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto2.7° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.5° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus6.0° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

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

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo 10°11′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 26°20′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 0°50′ (moves 0.50° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 29°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 12°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Venus 0.0°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 0.6°
  • Chiron square Uranus 0.8°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.0°
  • Eros square Saturn 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.9°

Phillip’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Phillip’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Venus, Saturn, 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.

  • Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.1°
  • Venus quintile Jupiter 1.0°

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Phillip’s cards

Computed from June 6, 1944. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Phillip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312977 (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 Staff photographer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Phillip Sharp at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Phillip Sharp.

Quick answers about Phillip Sharp’s chart

How old is Phillip Sharp?
Phillip Sharp is 82 years old, born June 6, 1944 in Falmouth, United States.
What zodiac sign is Phillip Sharp?
Phillip Sharp is a Gemini: born June 6, 1944, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Phillip Sharp's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 6, 1944 birth.
What is Phillip Sharp's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Phillip Sharp's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Phillip Sharp's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Phillip Sharp's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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