Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937, Zolochiv, Ukraine), aged 89, is a Polish-American Nobel laureate chemist and playwright. Hoffmann's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, William H. Nichols Medal and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Roald Hoffmann’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Ox, with 
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Roald Hoffmann’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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Roald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Roald, according to the stars
Core essence
Roald feels the room before entering it. The core of Roald is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Roald, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Roald wants to be loved
Roald wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Roald like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Roald creates
How Roald makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Roald creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Roald 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Roald 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Roald 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 Roald's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Roald sits
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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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Roald Hoffmann's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 18, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Roald Hoffmann was born on July 18, 1937, which falls in a Fire 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 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Roald Hoffmann's birth date, July 18, 1937, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Roald’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roald Hoffmann's date-only chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Roald Hoffmann combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Roald’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Roald Hoffmann, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableMoontrinePluto0.1° to 6.2° orb
Roald’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.1° to 0.5° orb
Roald’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.3° to 2.2° orb
Roald’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.5° to 3.4° orb
Roald’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineMars2.6° to 3.3° orb
Roald’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableSunoppositionJupiter2.7° to 3.8° orb
Roald’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.6° orb
Roald’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileVenus4.1° to 5.0° orb
Roald’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
Roald’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareNeptune5.4° to 6.5° orb
Roald’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrinePluto5.8° to 6.0° orb
Roald’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.1° to 6.3° orb
Roald’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Roald’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 27°10′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Roald turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 28°42′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Roald is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAries 28°27′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Roald is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaLeo 7°02′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Roald at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 1°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Roald leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Eros square Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.9°
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°).
Roald’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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Roald is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Roald’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Roald Hoffmann, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Roald’s cards
Every card is computed from July 18, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Roald Hoffmann, 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
Roald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q273279, 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.
Portrait by . The original uploader was Xtreambar at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roald Hoffmann at Wikipedia and roaldhoffmann.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Roald Hoffmann’s chart
- How old is Roald Hoffmann?
- Roald Hoffmann is 89 years old, born July 18, 1937 in Zolochiv, Ukraine.
- What zodiac sign is Roald Hoffmann?
- Roald Hoffmann is a Cancer: born July 18, 1937, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox.
- What is Roald Hoffmann's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1937 birth.
- What time was Roald Hoffmann 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 is Roald Hoffmann's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 18, 1937 birth date.
- What is Roald Hoffmann's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 18, 1937 birth date.
- Where is Roald Hoffmann's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Roald Hoffmann's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
