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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Ox, with 
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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.
René’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for René Dubos, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
René’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
stableVenussextileUranus2.2° to 3.5° orb
René’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareUranus2.3° to 3.2° orb
René’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineJupiter2.4° to 3.0° orb
René’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.1° to 4.0° orb
René’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSuntrineNeptune4.2° to 5.2° orb
René’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.8° to 6.9° orb
René’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 3°28′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. René is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresPisces 12°26′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: René is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosGemini 13°59′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. René is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 22°48′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. René is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 20°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of René that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
René’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: René 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 René’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.
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 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for René Dubos, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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René’s cards
Every card is computed from February 20, 1901, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for René Dubos, 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
René’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2096960, 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Ox.
- 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 time was René Dubos 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 was René Dubos's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the February 20, 1901 birth date.
- What was René Dubos's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 20, 1901 birth date.
- 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.
