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Salvador Luria

Salvador Luria (born August 13, 1912, Turin, Italy; died 1991), was an Italian American microbiologist. Luria's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Medal of Science and National Book Award.

Salvador Luria’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Salvador Luria’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#756

US rank in 2025

~49,788

Americans share it since 1888

1992

its peak year

Salvador ranked 796th in 1912, the year of this birth, with 31 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Salvador’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

3

Soul Urge · being heard

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on S (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Salvador’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

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

The record

What sets Salvador apart

Sebastian Stan (1982) and Domenico Dolce (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Salvador, according to the stars

Core essence

Salvador is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Salvador 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 Salvador wants to be loved

Salvador wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Salvador and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Salvador creates

How Salvador makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Salvador creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Salvador is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Salvador is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Salvador channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Salvador's birth date. Working below.

Where Salvador sits

Six lines

Salvador’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Salvador

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Salvador

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

PrivateExpressive
Salvador

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Salvador

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

PracticalVisionary
Salvador

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Salvador

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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

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The sky over Turin that night

Computed for 45.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Turin at 9 p.m. that evening: Eltanin of Draco, within 6.4° of the exact zenith.

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

Turin sits at 45.1°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −44.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Turin on any night.

Sun 13° below the horizon, Moon down and 2% lit at new moon.

How unusual Salvador's chart is

Chart pattern score

76 / 100 · Rare

2 unaspected planets · Yod onto Uranus · T-square onto Mercury

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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Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Salvador Luria's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 13, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Water Rat

Quick, clever, never stuck.

Salvador Luria was born on August 13, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Salvador Luria's birth date, August 13, 1912, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Salvador’s chart

Salvador’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 6° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.2° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbMoon fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.7° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.2° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.4° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.4° orbJupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.6° orbSun in Leo · 20°18′☉20°Moon in Leo · 29°13′☽29°Mercury in Virgo · 5°30′ · retrograde☿℞5°Venus in Virgo · 0°53′♀0°Mars in Virgo · 17°04′♂17°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 5°44′♃5°Saturn in Gemini · 3°06′♄3°Uranus in Aquarius · 0°43′ · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Cancer · 24°31′♆24°Pluto in Gemini · 29°40′♇29°

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

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb

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

  • stableVenussextilePluto0.6° to 1.8° orb

    Salvador’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn1.6° to 2.8° orb

    Salvador’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn2.1° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus2.3° to 2.4° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn2.6° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.8° to 5.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter4.2° to 5.4° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.2° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 14.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 14.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 9°38′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 11°10′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 26°24′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 23°21′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 7°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Neptune 1.2°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.9°

Salvador’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Salvador’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Saturn, MercuryAn 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 Venus · Jupiter, Saturn, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Uranus · Venus, Pluto, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus quincunx Uranus 0.2°
  • Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.1°
  • Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.2°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°

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Salvador’s cards

Computed from August 13, 1912. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Salvador’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q205667 (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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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Salvador Luria.

Quick answers about Salvador Luria’s chart

What zodiac sign was Salvador Luria?
Salvador Luria was a Leo: born August 13, 1912, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Salvador Luria's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 13, 1912 birth.
What was Salvador Luria's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Salvador Luria's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Salvador Luria's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Salvador Luria's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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