Rodney Robert Porter
Rodney Robert Porter (born October 8, 1917, Newton-le-Willows, United Kingdom; died 1985), was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate. Porter's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Copley Medal and Royal Medal.
Rodney Robert Porter’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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Rodney Robert Porter’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Rodney in the U.S.?
#1093
US rank in 2025
~248,325
Americans share it since 1880
1965
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Rodney’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Rodney, according to the stars
Core essence
Rodney makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Rodney is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Rodney is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Rodney needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Rodney wants to be loved
Rodney wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Rodney even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Rodney creates
How Rodney makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Rodney creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Rodney is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Rodney 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Rodney fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Rodney's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Rodney sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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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The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Rodney Robert Porter's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 8, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Rodney Robert Porter was born on October 8, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Rodney Robert Porter's birth date, October 8, 1917, 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 Rodney’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rodney Robert Porter's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Rodney Robert Porter combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Rodney’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Rodney Robert Porter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Cancer 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.
stableSunsextileMars1.0° to 1.4° orb
Rodney’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.0° to 1.1° orb
Rodney’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.5° to 1.7° orb
Rodney’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.7° to 2.6° orb
Rodney’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineJupiter2.7° to 3.7° orb
Rodney’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.1° to 3.6° orb
Rodney’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableMarsoppositionUranus3.9° to 4.5° orb
Rodney’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssextileJupiter4.1° to 4.7° orb
Rodney’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.6° orb
Rodney’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb
Rodney’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareUranus5.4° to 6.5° orb
Rodney’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune5.6° to 5.7° orb
Rodney’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Rodney’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 26°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Rodney absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresScorpio 1°31′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Rodney is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosSagittarius 21°33′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Rodney attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 29°04′ (moves 0.12° 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. Rodney is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 7°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Rodney exacting with themselves first.
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 opposition Mercury 0.7°
- Chiron trine Venus 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.5°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.8°
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°).
Rodney’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. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Rodney is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Rodney’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.
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.1°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rodney Robert Porter, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Rodney’s cards
Every card is computed from October 8, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Rodney Robert Porter, 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
Rodney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295700, 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 MRC National Institute for Medical Research, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rodney Robert Porter 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 Rodney Robert Porter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Rodney Robert Porter?
- Rodney Robert Porter was a Libra: born October 8, 1917, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was Rodney Robert Porter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 8, 1917 birth.
- What time was Rodney Robert Porter 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 Rodney Robert Porter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the October 8, 1917 birth date.
- What was Rodney Robert Porter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 8, 1917 birth date.
- Where was Rodney Robert Porter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Rodney Robert Porter's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
