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Roger Sperry

Roger Sperry (born August 20, 1913, Hartford, United States; died 1994), was an American neuroscientist. Sperry's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Medal of Science and Wolf Prize in Medicine.

Roger Sperry’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Roger Sperry’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Guardian

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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

The SSA recorded 565 American boys named Roger in 1913: 138th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Roger’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

2

Expression · connecting people

7

Soul Urge · understanding

4

Personality · steady, dependable

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

6 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1913, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Roger apart

The APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology came in 1971, when Roger Sperry was 58.

Study took Roger Sperry to Hall High School and Oberlin College.

Roger Sperry was born to Francis Bushnell Sperry.

Wikipedia files Roger Sperry under American neuropsychologists, Hall High School (Connecticut) alumni and APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology recipients.

Andrew Garfield (1983) and Amy Adams (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Hall High School, Oberlin College and University of Chicago
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1981), Wolf Prize in Medicine (1979) and National Medal of Science (1989)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
55

What the chart says

Roger, according to the stars

Core essence

Roger is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Roger is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Roger runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Roger needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Roger wants to be loved

Roger wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Roger gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Roger creates

How Roger makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Roger 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: Roger 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Roger 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Roger scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Roger

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Roger

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Roger

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Roger

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Roger

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Roger

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hartford on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Roger’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 83.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 12.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Hartford that night

Computed for 41.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Hartford at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 6.5° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.

Hartford sits at 41.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hartford at all: they sit past the −48.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 85% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 22° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Hartford, United States

The death is recorded at Pasadena, Los Angeles County in 1994.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Roger Sperry: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Roger's chart is

Chart pattern score

20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Roger Sperry's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 20, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Water Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Roger Sperry was born on August 20, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

Roger Sperry's birth date, August 20, 1913, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Roger’s chart

Roger’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 14° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Mercury · Trine, 0.1° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.6° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.1° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.8° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 4.1° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.2° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 7.5° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 7.8° orbSun in Leo · 27°02′☉27°Moon in Aries · 8°57′☽8°Mercury in Leo · 8°50′☿8°Venus in Cancer · 16°32′♀16°Mars in Gemini · 14°33′♂14°Jupiter in Capricorn · 8°21′ · retrograde♃℞8°Saturn in Gemini · 16°41′♄16°Uranus in Aquarius · 4°42′ · retrograde♅℞4°Neptune in Cancer · 26°54′♆26°Pluto in Cancer · 0°49′♇0°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 5.6° orb

    Roger’s feelings flow straight into their mind.

  • stableMoonsquareJupiter0.1° to 6.5° orb

    Roger’s feelings grind against their growth.

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.8° to 2.4° orb

    Roger’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableSunsextilePluto3.3° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus3.7° to 4.5° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.5° to 7.6° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.9° to 13.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 2.2° to 12.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 2.2° to 14.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Roger’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 13°30′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 23°54′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 16°56′ (moves 0.86° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°40′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 19°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Eros square Saturn 0.3°
  • Eros sextile Venus 0.4°
  • Hygiea square Sun 0.4°
  • Chiron square Mars 1.1°
  • Eros square Mars 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.6°

Roger’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☽ Moon5 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Roger’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
  • Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
  • Sun quintile Mars 0.5°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.5°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 2.0°

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Roger’s cards

Computed from August 20, 1913. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Roger’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232305 (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 Sperry at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Roger Sperry.

Quick answers about Roger Sperry’s chart

What zodiac sign was Roger Sperry?
Roger Sperry was a Leo: born August 20, 1913, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Roger Sperry's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 20, 1913 birth.
What was Roger Sperry's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Roger Sperry's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Roger Sperry's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Roger Sperry's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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