Raymond Davis Jr.
Raymond Davis Jr. (born October 14, 1914, Washington, D.C., United States; died 2006), was an American scientist. Davis's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science and Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize.
Raymond Davis Jr.’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Raymond
Raymond Davis Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Raymond in the U.S.?
#395
US rank in 2025
~783,311
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
In 1914, 6,821 American boys and 26 girls were registered Raymond — 16th among boys and 1,220th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Raymond’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 R (9) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Raymond’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1914, 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 Raymond apart
The Comstock Prize in Physics came in 1978, when Raymond Davis Jr. was 64.
The schooling ran through Yale University.
The record gives Alzheimer's disease as the cause, and Blue Point Cemetery as the resting place.
Raymond Davis Jr. was raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Blue Point, New York, Winners of the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize and Scientists from Washington, D.C..
Usher (1978) and Ralph Lauren (1939) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2002), Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (1994) and Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics (1988)
- Cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- Buried at
- Blue Point Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 65
What the chart says
Raymond, according to the stars
Core essence
Raymond makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Raymond is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Raymond needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Raymond needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Raymond wants to be loved
Raymond wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Raymond and watch them fall for you again.
How Raymond creates
How Raymond makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Raymond creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Raymond is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Raymond 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Raymond 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 Raymond's birth date. Working below.
Where Raymond sits
Six lines
Raymond’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Raymond Davis Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Washington was Scheat, in Pegasus, 76.4° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Washington at all: they sit past the −51.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 23% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Washington, D.C., United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2006.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Raymond Davis Jr.: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Raymond's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · No Earth planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Raymond Davis Jr.'s Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 14, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Raymond Davis Jr. was born on October 14, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Raymond Davis Jr.'s birth date, October 14, 1914, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Raymond’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Raymond Davis Jr.'s date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- Raymond Davis Jr. combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Raymond’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto0.1° orb
Raymond’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssquareJupiter1.7° to 2.4° orb
Raymond’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.2° to 3.2° orb
Raymond’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareUranus2.4° to 3.1° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune2.6° to 3.3° orb
stableVenussextileUranus4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.6° to 4.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus4.8° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.3° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Raymond’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 15°08′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 17°22′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 25°19′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 27°37′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 5°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.8°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 2.7°
Raymond’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Raymond’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.5°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.0°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°
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Raymond’s cards
Computed from October 14, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Raymond’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q175519 (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 National Science Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Raymond Davis Jr. at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Raymond Davis Jr..
Quick answers about Raymond Davis Jr.’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Raymond Davis Jr.?
- Raymond Davis Jr. was a Libra: born October 14, 1914, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Raymond Davis Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 14, 1914 birth.
- What was Raymond Davis Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Raymond Davis Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Raymond Davis Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Raymond Davis Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
