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), and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Fire Monkey, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Roderick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Roderick MacKinnon, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Taurus or Gemini 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.
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
Roderick’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.7° to 2.5° orb
Roderick’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.9° to 2.9° orb
Roderick’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunoppositionPluto2.2° to 3.2° orb
Roderick’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.8° to 3.7° orb
Roderick’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMarstrinePluto3.0° to 3.6° orb
Roderick’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb
Roderick’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
Roderick’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunoppositionJupiter3.4° to 4.5° orb
Roderick’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 7°51′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Roderick making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresPisces or Aquarius during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Roderick is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosCapricorn 1°25′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Roderick is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 8°53′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Roderick is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 8°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Roderick is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Roderick’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. ♆ 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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Roderick is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Roderick’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 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 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 quincunx Uranus 0.9°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.1°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Roderick MacKinnon, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Roderick’s cards
Every card is computed from February 19, 1956, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
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
No birth time is on public record for Roderick MacKinnon, 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
Roderick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q211482, 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 PotassiumChannel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roderick MacKinnon at Wikipedia.
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 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. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey.
- 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 time was Roderick MacKinnon 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 Roderick MacKinnon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the February 19, 1956 birth date.
- What is Roderick MacKinnon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 19, 1956 birth date.
- 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.
