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Roger Y. Tsien

Roger Y. Tsien (born February 1, 1952, New York City, United States; died 2016), was an American biochemist. Tsien's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, National Inventors Hall of Fame and Wolf Prize in Medicine.

Roger Y. Tsien’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Roger Y. Tsien’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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 12,132 American boys and 39 girls named Roger in 1952: 30th among boys and 1,551st among girls 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.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

5

Soul Urge · freedom

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on R (9) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against 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

11 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, 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 Canada Gairdner International Award came in 1995, when Roger Y. Tsien was 43.

The schooling ran through Livingston High School and Churchill College.

Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction.

Roger Y. Tsien was born to Yi Ying Eva Tsien and Hsue-Chu Tsien.

Wikipedia files Roger Y. Tsien under Tsien family, Marshall Scholars and Searle Scholars Program recipients.

Gabriel Batistuta (1969) and Lisa Marie Presley (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Livingston High School, Churchill College and Harvard College
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2008), Wolf Prize in Medicine (2004) and Canada Gairdner International Award (1995)
Cause of death
myocardial infarction
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
62

What the chart says

Roger, according to the stars

Core essence

Roger is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Roger is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Roger wants to be loved

Roger wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Roger you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Roger creates

How Roger makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Roger creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Roger is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Roger is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Roger

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Roger

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Roger

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Roger

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Roger

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

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 New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Roger’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 85.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 81.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 85.6° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.

New York City sits at 40.7°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 New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 43% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States
Lived in
San Diego

Wikidata records San Diego as Roger Y. Tsien's home, against New York City as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Eugene, Lane County in 2016.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Roger Y. Tsien: 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

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Uranus

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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Roger Y. Tsien in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

Roger Y. Tsien's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 1, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Metal Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Roger Y. Tsien was born on February 1, 1952, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 11

Sees what the rest missed.

Roger Y. Tsien's birth date, February 1, 1952, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 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 21° to 4° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.3° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 0.6° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.3° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.1° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.2° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 4.4° orbSun in Aquarius · 11°48′☉11°Moon in Aries · 28°27′☽28°Mercury in Capricorn · 27°52′☿27°Venus in Capricorn · 6°09′♀6°Mars in Scorpio · 5°34′♂5°Jupiter in Aries · 10°30′♃10°Saturn in Libra · 14°55′ · retrograde♄℞14°Uranus in Cancer · 10°46′ · retrograde♅℞10°Neptune in Libra · 21°41′ · retrograde♆℞21°Pluto in Leo · 20°33′ · retrograde♇℞20°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.3° orb

    Roger’s feelings grind against their mind.

  • stableVenussextileMars0.2° to 1.0° orb

    Roger’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus0.2° to 0.4° orb

    Roger’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter0.9° to 1.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn2.6° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter3.8° to 4.9° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus4.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus4.1° to 4.2° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.3° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus5.0° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune5.4° to 7.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal7 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable0 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.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 8°28′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 24°56′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 6°04′ (moves 0.78° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 26°19′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 23°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Venus 0.1°
  • Eros opposition Mars 0.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.6°
  • Chiron square Jupiter 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.0°
  • Chiron conjunction Venus 2.3°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.3°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 2.9°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 2.9°

Roger’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Roger’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Saturn, UranusAn 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.

  • Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.6°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 1.0°

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Roger’s cards

Computed from February 1, 1952. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Roger’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q200470 (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.

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Quick answers about Roger Y. Tsien’s chart

What zodiac sign was Roger Y. Tsien?
Roger Y. Tsien was an Aquarius: born February 1, 1952, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Roger Y. Tsien's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 1, 1952 birth.
What was Roger Y. Tsien's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Roger Y. Tsien's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Roger Y. Tsien's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Roger Y. Tsien's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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