René Dubos
René Dubos (born February 20, 1901, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France; died 1982), was an American microbiologist. Dubos's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Cullum Geographical Medal and Robert Koch Prize.
René Dubos’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Metal Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with René
René Dubos’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
What René’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on R (9) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
René’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets René apart
Kurt Cobain (1967) and Mitch McConnell (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
René, according to the stars
Core essence
René feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of René is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, René is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What René needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How René wants to be loved
René 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 René be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How René creates
How René makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. René creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: René is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. René is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means René channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from René's birth date. Working below.
Where René sits
Six lines
René’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 René Dubos
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt 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 Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt that night
Computed for 49.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.7° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt sits at 49.0°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −41.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 34° below the horizon, Moon down and 5% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual René's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · Mars retrograde
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 →René Dubos at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
René Dubos's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 20, 1901, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Metal Ox
Metal OxSlow, steady, never quits.
René Dubos was born on February 20, 1901, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
René Dubos's birth date, February 20, 1901, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in René’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in René Dubos' date-only chart is Uranus opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- René Dubos combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
René’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Pisces 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
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.1° to 7.9° orb
René’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableUranusoppositionPluto0.8° orb
René’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrinePluto1.4° to 2.7° orb
René’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionMars1.8° to 3.2° orb
stableVenussextileUranus2.2° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus2.3° to 3.2° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.1° to 4.0° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 14.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
René’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 3°28′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 12°26′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 13°59′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 22°48′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 20°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mars 0.2°
- Eros trine Venus 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.3°
- Eros opposition Uranus 2.5°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.9°
René’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in René’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Uranus, Pluto, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.9°
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René’s cards
Computed from February 20, 1901. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
René’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2096960 (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.
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Quick answers about René Dubos’s chart
- What zodiac sign was René Dubos?
- René Dubos was a Pisces: born February 20, 1901, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was René Dubos's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 20, 1901 birth.
- What was René Dubos's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was René Dubos's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was René Dubos's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was René Dubos's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
