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Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin (born July 25, 1920, Notting Hill, United Kingdom; died 1958), was a British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer. Franklin's honours include Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and 72 scientist women names on the Eiffel tower.

Rosalind Franklin’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Rosalind Franklin’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Rosalind in the U.S.?

#1521

US rank in 2025

~27,136

Americans share it since 1880

1965

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Rosalind’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Ruby, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Camellia

Sky blue · Gold · Silver

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Rosalind, according to the stars

Core essence

Rosalind is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Rosalind 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.

How Rosalind wants to be loved

Rosalind wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Rosalind openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Rosalind creates

How Rosalind makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Rosalind builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Rosalind 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Rosalind is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Rosalind 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 Rosalind's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Rosalind sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Rosalind

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Rosalind

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

PrivateExpressive
Rosalind

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Rosalind

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

PracticalVisionary
Rosalind

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Rosalind

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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

Rosalind’s birth-night reference starEdasichwarm orange · DracoEdasich, in Draco. A warm orange star, 79.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Edasich →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 12.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

If you only read one paragraph

Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Rosalind Franklin's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 25, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Metal Monkey

Turns problems into games.

Rosalind Franklin was born on July 25, 1920, which falls in a Metal 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 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Rosalind Franklin's birth date, July 25, 1920, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Rosalind’s chart

Rosalind’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Rosalind Franklin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Moon · Trine, 0.4° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.2° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.4° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.6° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.7° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbVenus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.8° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2.9° orbSun in Leo · 2°10′☉2°Moon in Sagittarius · 1°44′☽1°Mercury in Leo · 5°16′ · retrograde☿℞5°Venus in Leo · 8°08′♀8°Mars in Scorpio · 6°29′♂6°Jupiter in Leo · 22°55′♃22°Saturn in Virgo · 9°40′♄9°Uranus in Pisces · 4°55′ · retrograde♅℞4°Neptune in Leo · 10°55′♆10°Pluto in Cancer · 7°55′♇7°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 5.9° orb

    Rosalind’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.6° to 1.8° orb

    Rosalind’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarstrinePluto1.2° to 1.7° orb

    Rosalind’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareMars1.3° to 2.0° orb

    Rosalind’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableMarstrineUranus1.3° to 1.8° orb

    Rosalind’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb

    Rosalind’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.9° to 3.8° orb

    Rosalind’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune2.2° to 3.4° orb

    Rosalind’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury2.3° to 3.9° orb

    Rosalind’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.0° to 3.4° orb

    Rosalind’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableUranustrinePluto3.0° orb

    Rosalind’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunsquareMars4.1° to 4.6° orb

    Rosalind’s core identity grinds against their drive.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire6 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Rosalind’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 ℞Aries 10°25′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Rosalind may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 14°58′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Rosalind feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosLeo 16°34′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

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

    Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Rosalind loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 25°23′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Rosalind is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 1°05′ (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. Rosalind 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.

  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.5°
  • Chiron trine Venus 2.3°
  • Chiron square Pluto 2.5°

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°).

Rosalind’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. 1. ☉ Sun13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars7 pts

    7 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Rosalind 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 Rosalind’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Mars, Uranus, Pluto, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

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.

  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.0°
  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.4°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
  • Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Rosalind Franklin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Rosalind’s cards

Every card is computed from July 25, 1920, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Star

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Rosalind Franklin, 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

Rosalind’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7474, 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 Laboratory of Molecular Biology, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Rosalind Franklin 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 Rosalind Franklin’s chart

What zodiac sign was Rosalind Franklin?
Rosalind Franklin was a Leo: born July 25, 1920, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey.
What was Rosalind Franklin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 25, 1920 birth.
What time was Rosalind Franklin 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 Rosalind Franklin's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 25, 1920 birth date.
What was Rosalind Franklin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 25, 1920 birth date.
Where was Rosalind Franklin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Rosalind Franklin's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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