Roderick MacKinnon
Roderick MacKinnon (born February 19, 1956, Burlington, United States), aged 70, is an American neuroscientist. MacKinnon's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Roderick MacKinnon’s zodiac sign is Aquarius or Pisces (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Roderick
How common is the name Roderick in the U.S.?
#1752
US rank in 2025
~47,446
Americans share it since 1880
1971
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1956, Roderick came 282nd among boys and 5,819th among girls, carried by 682 American boys and 6 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Roderick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on R (9) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Roderick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Flame orange
The record
What sets Roderick apart
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953) and Jennifer Doudna (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Roderick, according to the stars
How Roderick wants to be loved
Roderick wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Roderick creates
How Roderick 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. Roderick 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: Roderick is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Roderick 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Roderick has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Roderick's birth date. Working below.
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The sky over Burlington that night
Computed for 42.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Burlington was Castor, in Gemini, 78.7° up.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Burlington at all: they sit past the −47.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 58% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
How unusual Roderick's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
Grand cross · 3 planets at a critical degree · 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.
Score your own chart →Roderick MacKinnon at a glance
Aquarius or Pisces Sun
Roderick MacKinnon was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aquarius into Pisces. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Roderick MacKinnon was born on February 19, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Roderick MacKinnon's birth date, February 19, 1956, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Roderick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roderick MacKinnon's date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Earth.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Roderick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° 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
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
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Roderick’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.7° to 1.6° orb
Roderick’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
Roderick’s growth and depths act as one.
stableUranussquareNeptune1.2° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter1.7° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto2.2° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.0° to 3.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter3.4° to 4.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Roderick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 7°51′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces or Aquarius during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 1°25′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 8°53′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 8°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Sun 0.1°
- Ceres trine Neptune 0.2°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.1°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.1°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.3°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 2.8°
Roderick’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter8.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Mars, Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Roderick’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Sun, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Sun, Jupiter, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Neptune · Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneAn 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.
- Sun quincunx Uranus 0.9°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.1°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
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Roderick’s cards
Computed from February 19, 1956. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Roderick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q211482 (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 PotassiumChannel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roderick MacKinnon at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Roderick MacKinnon.
Quick answers about Roderick MacKinnon’s chart
- How old is Roderick MacKinnon?
- Roderick MacKinnon is 70 years old, born February 19, 1956 in Burlington, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Roderick MacKinnon?
- Roderick MacKinnon was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aquarius into Pisces. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Roderick MacKinnon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 19, 1956 birth.
- What is Roderick MacKinnon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Roderick MacKinnon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Roderick MacKinnon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Roderick MacKinnon's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
