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Samuel C. C. Ting

Samuel C. C. Ting (born January 27, 1936, Ann Arbor, United States), aged 90, is a Chinese-American physicist. Ting's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award.

Samuel C. C. Ting’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Samuel C. C. Ting’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

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

#18

US rank in 2025

~823,085

Americans share it since 1880

2001

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1936, Samuel came 67th among boys and 3,065th among girls, carried by 2,893 American boys and 9 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Samuel’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

9

Soul Urge · meaning

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on S (1) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Samuel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, 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 Samuel apart

Samuel C. C. Ting took the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in 1975, at 39.

The classrooms behind this chart: National Cheng Kung University and Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School.

Samuel C. C. Ting was born to Wang Yiying.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Samuel C. C. Ting: Foreign fellows of Pakistan Academy of Sciences, National Cheng Kung University alumni and American expatriates in Taiwan.

The same date carries Barry C. Barish. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
National Cheng Kung University, Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School and University of Michigan
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (1976), Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1975) and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English and Chinese
Wikipedia editions
66

What the chart says

Samuel, according to the stars

Core essence

Samuel is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Samuel 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 Samuel wants to be loved

Samuel wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Samuel and watch them fall for you again.

How Samuel creates

How Samuel makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Samuel creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Samuel 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Samuel 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Samuel slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Samuel's birth date. Working below.

Where Samuel sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Samuel

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Samuel

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

PrivateExpressive
Samuel

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Samuel

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

PracticalVisionary
Samuel

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Samuel

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 Ann Arbor on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Samuel’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 84.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 37.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

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

The sky over Ann Arbor that night

Computed for 42.28°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Ann Arbor was Capella, in Auriga, 84.6° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.

From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −47.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Ann Arbor on any night.

Sun 36° below the horizon, Moon up and 19% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Samuel's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Jupiter

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Samuel C. C. Ting in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Ahead of the room by a decade.

Samuel C. C. Ting's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 27, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Wood Rat

Resourceful is an understatement.

Samuel C. C. Ting was born on January 27, 1936, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 11

Receives more than it reasons.

Samuel C. C. Ting's birth date, January 27, 1936, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Samuel’s chart

Samuel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.6° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.4° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.7° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.7° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.1° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.9° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 5.6° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 6° orbSun in Aquarius · 6°36′☉6°Moon in Pisces · 22°56′☽22°Mercury in Aquarius · 15°34′ · retrograde☿℞15°Venus in Sagittarius · 28°56′♀28°Mars in Pisces · 10°16′♂10°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 16°55′♃16°Saturn in Pisces · 8°34′♄8°Uranus in Taurus · 1°41′♅1°Neptune in Virgo · 16°22′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Cancer · 26°04′ · retrograde♇℞26°

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

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune0.5° to 0.7° orb

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

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter0.9° to 1.9° orb

    Samuel’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.4° to 2.0° orb

    Samuel’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.1° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus4.4° to 5.4° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto5.6° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune5.7° to 6.5° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter6.4° to 7.0° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.7° to 7.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 13.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 11°06′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 20°08′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 5°53′ (moves 0.72° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 2°11′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 2°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.5°
  • Eros sextile Sun 0.7°
  • Chiron square Mars 0.8°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.5°

Samuel’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Samuel’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Neptune, JupiterAn 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.

  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
  • Venus quintile Mars 0.7°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.8°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.6°
  • Sun semi-sextile Saturn 2.0°

Born the same day as Samuel

Barry C. Barish was born on January 27, 1936 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Ann Arbor sits at 42.3°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Samuel’s cards

Computed from January 27, 1936. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Samuel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192715 (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 中国新闻社, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Samuel C. C. Ting’s chart

How old is Samuel C. C. Ting?
Samuel C. C. Ting is 90 years old, born January 27, 1936 in Ann Arbor, United States.
What zodiac sign is Samuel C. C. Ting?
Samuel C. C. Ting is an Aquarius: born January 27, 1936, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Samuel C. C. Ting's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1936 birth.
What is Samuel C. C. Ting's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Samuel C. C. Ting's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Samuel C. C. Ting's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Samuel C. C. Ting's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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