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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Phillip’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Phillip sits

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Phillip’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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.

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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

Wood Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Phillip Sharp was born on June 6, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Phillip’s chart

Phillip’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Phillip Sharp, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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′Jupiter in Leo · 21°14′21°Saturn in Gemini · 28°14′28°Uranus in Gemini · 9°21′Neptune in Libra · 1°28′ · retrogradePluto in Leo · 6°55′

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.

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Conjunction
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

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.

  • 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

    Phillip’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussextileMars1.1° to 1.8° orb

    Phillip’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.6° to 2.1° orb

    Phillip’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb

    Phillip’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussextilePluto2.7° to 3.9° orb

    Phillip’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb

    Phillip’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.5° to 5.7° orb

    Phillip’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus6.0° to 6.9° orb

    Phillip’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Phillip turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.

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

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

    Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Phillip is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.

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

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

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Phillip is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • HygieaLibra 29°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Phillip is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Phillip exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Phillip’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. 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

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Phillip is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Phillip’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, 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 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.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Phillip Sharp, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Phillip’s cards

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The World

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The Gilded Healer

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

yang Wood

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yang Metal

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Metal

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Phillip Sharp, 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

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

The same Phillip Sharp 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey.
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 time was Phillip Sharp 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 is Phillip Sharp's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the June 6, 1944 birth date.
What is Phillip Sharp's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 6, 1944 birth date.
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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