Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini (born April 22, 1909, Turin, Italy; died 2012), was an Italian neurologist. Levi-Montalcini served as Italian senator for life. Levi-Montalcini's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and Order of Isabella the Catholic.
Rita Levi-Montalcini’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Rita
Rita Levi-Montalcini’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Rita in the U.S.?
#1287
US rank in 2025
~285,230
Americans share it since 1880
1949
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1909, Rita came 197th, carried by 295 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rita’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Rita’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets Rita apart
Robert Oppenheimer (1904) and Jack Nicholson (1937) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Rita, according to the stars
Core essence
Rita is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Rita is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Rita creates
How Rita makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Rita 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: Rita is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Rita is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Rita goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Rita's birth date. Working below.
Where Rita sits
Six lines
Rita’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Turin 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 Turin that night
Computed for 45.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Turin was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 85.9° up.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 45.1°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Turin at all: they sit past the −44.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon up and 9% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Rita's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · T-square onto Saturn · 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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Rita Levi-Montalcini's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 22, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Rita Levi-Montalcini was born on April 22, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Rita Levi-Montalcini's birth date, April 22, 1909, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Rita’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rita Levi-Montalcini's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Rita Levi-Montalcini combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Rita’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.1° orb
Rita’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb
Rita’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineJupiter1.4° to 3.5° orb
Rita’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.5° to 1.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.7° to 2.6° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter4.0° to 5.3° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.4° to 6.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.6° to 5.7° orb
stableSunsquareMars6.5° to 6.9° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.5° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Rita’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°23′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 25°11′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 28°23′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini or Cancer during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 22°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.6°
Rita’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Rita’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn 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.
- Mercury quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°
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Rita’s cards
Computed from April 22, 1909. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rita’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q185007 (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 Kurt Hagblom, Firma Hagblom-Foto, restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rita Levi-Montalcini at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rita Levi-Montalcini.
Quick answers about Rita Levi-Montalcini’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Rita Levi-Montalcini?
- Rita Levi-Montalcini was a Taurus: born April 22, 1909, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Rita Levi-Montalcini's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 22, 1909 birth.
- What was Rita Levi-Montalcini's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Rita Levi-Montalcini's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Rita Levi-Montalcini's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Rita Levi-Montalcini's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
