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Ralph Steinman

Ralph Steinman (born January 14, 1943, Montreal, Canada; died 2011), was a Canadian immunologist and cell biologist. Steinman's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award and Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine.

Ralph Steinman’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Ralph Steinman’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Pioneer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

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

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

#1048

US rank in 2025

~415,858

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

Ralph ranked 40th among boys and 2,993rd among girls in 1943, the year of this birth, with 6,771 American boys and 11 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ralph’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on R (9) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

Ralph’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, 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 Ralph apart

Ralph Steinman took the Emil-von-Behring-Prize in 1996, at 53.

The classrooms behind this chart: The Rockefeller University and McGill University.

Cause of death is recorded as pancreatic cancer.

Wikipedia's editors put Ralph Steinman under Canadian immunologists, Posthumous Nobel laureates and Cell biologists.

The same date carries Holland Taylor. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
The Rockefeller University, McGill University and Harvard Medical School
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2011), Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine (2010) and Robert Koch Prize (1999)
Cause of death
pancreatic cancer
Citizenship
Canada and United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
59

What the chart says

Ralph, according to the stars

Core essence

Ralph is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Ralph is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Ralph 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 Ralph needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Ralph wants to be loved

Ralph 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 Ralph be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Ralph creates

How Ralph makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Ralph creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Ralph is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ralph 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Ralph has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Ralph's birth date. Working below.

Where Ralph sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Ralph

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ralph

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

PrivateExpressive
Ralph

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ralph

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

PracticalVisionary
Ralph

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ralph

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 Ralph Steinman

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

Ralph’s birth-night reference starMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 84.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirfak →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 73.9° 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 Montreal that night

Computed for 45.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Montreal was Mirfak, in Perseus, 84.7° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 110 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 45.5°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Montreal at all: they sit past the −44.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 67% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 35° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Montreal, Canada
Lived in
New York City

Wikidata records New York City as Ralph Steinman's home, against Montreal as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2011.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ralph Steinman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Ralph's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · Five planets retrograde · 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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Ralph Steinman in 15 seconds

Capricorn Sun

Climbs. Then climbs again.

Ralph Steinman's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 14, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Water Horse

Open road, open heart.

Ralph Steinman was born on January 14, 1943, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Ralph Steinman's birth date, January 14, 1943, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Ralph’s chart

Ralph’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 15° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.2° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 1.4° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 1.5° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.5° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.8° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.8° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.9° orbSun in Capricorn · 23°37′☉23°Moon in Taurus · 9°14′☽9°Mercury in Aquarius · 10°42′☿10°Venus in Aquarius · 7°50′♀7°Mars in Sagittarius · 21°15′♂21°Jupiter in Cancer · 19°45′ · retrograde♃℞19°Saturn in Gemini · 6°04′ · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Gemini · 0°50′ · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Libra · 2°02′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Leo · 6°23′ · retrograde♇℞6°

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

  • stableMoonsquareVenus0.0° to 7.0° orb

    Ralph’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto0.3° orb

    Ralph’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto0.8° to 2.1° orb

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

  • stableVenustrineSaturn1.1° to 2.4° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune1.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter3.3° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto4.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn4.5° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune5.2° to 6.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 28°28′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 0°45′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 21°33′ (moves 0.66° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 10°44′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 15°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea opposition Mercury 0.0°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 0.1°
  • Eros square Mars 0.3°
  • Ceres opposition Neptune 1.3°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 1.8°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.1°
  • Chiron square Uranus 2.4°
  • Hygiea opposition Venus 2.9°

Ralph’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Ralph’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Venus, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
  • Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.3°
  • Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.3°
  • Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.5°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 1.6°

Born the same day as Ralph

Holland Taylor was born on January 14, 1943 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Montreal, at 45.5°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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Ralph’s cards

Computed from January 14, 1943. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ralph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q105494 (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 Kupal123, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ralph Steinman at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ralph Steinman.

Quick answers about Ralph Steinman’s chart

What zodiac sign was Ralph Steinman?
Ralph Steinman was a Capricorn: born January 14, 1943, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Ralph Steinman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 14, 1943 birth.
What was Ralph Steinman's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Ralph Steinman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Ralph Steinman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Ralph Steinman's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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