Roger Guillemin
Roger Guillemin (born January 11, 1924, Dijon, France; died 2024), was a French-American neuroscientist. Guillemin served as Director of Research at CNRS. Guillemin's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Commander of the Legion of Honour and National Medal of Science.
Roger Guillemin’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Roger
Roger Guillemin’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Roger in the U.S.?
#834
US rank in 2025
~443,830
Americans share it since 1880
1953
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1924, Roger came 93rd among boys and 2,642nd among girls, carried by 2,054 American boys and 14 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Roger’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
1
Soul Urge · independence
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on R (9) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Roger’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
The record
What sets Roger apart
Siti Nurhaliza (1979) and Mary J. Blige (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Roger, according to the stars
Core essence
Roger is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Roger is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Roger is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Roger needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Roger wants to be loved
Roger wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Roger be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Roger creates
How Roger makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Roger creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Roger is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Roger is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Roger leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Roger 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 Roger's birth date. Working below.
Where Roger sits
Six lines
Roger’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 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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Roger Guillemin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dijon 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 Dijon that night
Computed for 47.32°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Dijon at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 5.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Dijon sits at 47.3°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −42.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Dijon on any night.
The Moon, 30% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.
How unusual Roger's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mars · 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 →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Roger Guillemin's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 11, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Roger Guillemin was born on January 11, 1924, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Roger Guillemin's birth date, January 11, 1924, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Roger’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roger Guillemin's date-only chart is Venus opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Roger Guillemin combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Roger’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Pisces 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
stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 1.7° orb
Roger’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Roger’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.8° to 5.0° orb
Roger’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranustrinePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.3° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus4.3° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.5° to 4.9° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune4.6° to 5.2° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 1.6° to 14.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Roger’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 16°36′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 26°17′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 8°47′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 16°00′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 22°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.4°
- Ceres square Mars 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.2°
- Eros square Pluto 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 2.7°
Roger’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Roger’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Venus, Neptune, MarsAn 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 semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.2°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 0.2°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on January 11
- Siti Nurhaliza1979
- Mary J. Blige1971
- Kyle Richards1969
- Amanda Peet1972
- Lindsay Arnold1994
- Yolanda Hadid1964
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Tre BrownAmerican football player
- Michael Carter IIAmerican football safety
- Will ShipleyAmerican football player
Other Capricorn Pig charts
- Gout GoutSouth Sudanese-Australian athlete
- Lip-Bu TanAmerican businessman
- Timothée ChalametFrench-American actor
- Dove CameronAmerican actress and singer
Other Steadfast Strategists
- Krepin DiattaSenegalese association football player
- Djed SpenceEnglish association football player
- Leonardo BalerdiArgentine footballer (born 1999)
- İsmail YüksekTurkish association football player (born 1999)
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Aidan HutchinsonAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Joe BachieAmerican football outside linebacker
- Garrett WilliamsAmerican football player (born 2001)
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Roger’s cards
Computed from January 11, 1924. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Roger’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q242169 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roger Guillemin at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Roger Guillemin.
Quick answers about Roger Guillemin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Roger Guillemin?
- Roger Guillemin was a Capricorn: born January 11, 1924, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Roger Guillemin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 11, 1924 birth.
- What was Roger Guillemin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Roger Guillemin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Roger Guillemin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Roger Guillemin's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
