Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959, Champaign, United States), aged 67, is an American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate. Perlmutter's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and Albert Einstein Medal.
Saul Perlmutter’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Saul
Saul Perlmutter’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Saul in the U.S.?
#557
US rank in 2025
~43,362
Americans share it since 1880
2006
its peak year
Saul ranked 658th in 1959, the year of this birth, with 137 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Saul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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
Saul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, 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 Saul apart
Saul Perlmutter took the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in 2002, at 43.
The classrooms behind this chart: Greene Street Friends School and Germantown Friends School.
Wikipedia's editors put Saul Perlmutter under Dark energy, Germantown Friends School alumni and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people.
The same date carries Elizabeth A. Fenn. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Greene Street Friends School, Germantown Friends School and University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Albert Einstein Medal (2011), Nobel Prize in Physics (2011) and Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (2002)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 74
What the chart says
Saul, according to the stars
Core essence
Saul notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Saul is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Saul wants to be loved
Saul 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 Saul openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Saul creates
How Saul 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. Saul 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: Saul is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Saul is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Saul leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Saul fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Saul's birth date. Working below.
Where Saul sits
Six lines
Saul’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Saul Perlmutter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Champaign on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Champaign that night
Computed for 40.12°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Champaign was Sadr, in Cygnus, 88.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Champaign on any night.
Sun 24° below the horizon, Moon down and 69% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Champaign, United States
- Lives in
- Berkeley
Wikidata records Berkeley as Saul Perlmutter's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Saul Perlmutter: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Saul's chart is
Chart pattern score
61 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Venus · A bowl chart · 2 planets 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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Saul Perlmutter's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 22, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Saul Perlmutter was born on September 22, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Saul Perlmutter's birth date, September 22, 1959, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Saul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Saul Perlmutter's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Saul Perlmutter combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Saul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 5.2° orb
Saul’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
Saul’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.7° to 1.6° orb
Saul’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.8° to 0.9° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn1.3° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.4° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter2.0° to 2.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.1° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.9° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Saul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 23°31′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 1°01′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 12°55′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 12°30′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.3°
- Ceres square Venus 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.1°
Saul’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Saul’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 Venus 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.9°
Born the same day as Saul
Elizabeth A. Fenn was born on September 22, 1959 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. Champaign sits at 40.1°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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Saul’s cards
Computed from September 22, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Saul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106949 (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 Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Saul Perlmutter’s chart
- How old is Saul Perlmutter?
- Saul Perlmutter is 67 years old, born September 22, 1959 in Champaign, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Saul Perlmutter?
- Saul Perlmutter is a Virgo: born September 22, 1959, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Saul Perlmutter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 22, 1959 birth.
- What is Saul Perlmutter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Saul Perlmutter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Saul Perlmutter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Saul Perlmutter's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
