Selman Abraham Waksman
Selman Abraham Waksman (born July 22, 1888, Nova Pryluka, Ukraine; died 1973), was an American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics. Waksman's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Inventors Hall of Fame and Leeuwenhoek Medal.
Selman Abraham Waksman’s zodiac sign was Cancer or Leo (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Earth Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Selman
What Selman’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
11
Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Selman’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Terracotta
The record
What sets Selman apart
Willem Dafoe (1955) and John Leguizamo (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Selman, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Selman is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Selman needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Selman wants to be loved
Selman 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 Selman openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Selman creates
How Selman 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. Selman 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: Selman 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Selman is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Computed from Selman's birth date. Working below.
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The sky over Nova Pryluka that night
Computed for 49.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Nova Pryluka at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.2° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 49.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −40.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
How unusual Selman's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Uranus · 2 planets at a critical degree · A bowl chart
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.
Score your own chart →Cancer or Leo Sun
Selman Abraham Waksman was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Rat
Earth RatResourceful is an understatement.
Selman Abraham Waksman was born on July 22, 1888, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Selman Abraham Waksman's birth date, July 22, 1888, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Selman’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Selman Abraham Waksman's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
Selman’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 26° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.4° orb
Selman’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.2° to 0.4° orb
Selman’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.5° to 1.7° orb
Selman’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileNeptune1.4° to 2.3° orb
stableVenussextilePluto2.1° to 3.4° orb
stableVenussquareMars2.4° to 3.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.8° to 3.1° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn5.3° to 6.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Selman’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 6°30′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 28°20′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 22°54′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 5°14′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.4°
- Ceres trine Mars 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.3°
Selman’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
Configurations in Selman’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.
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.5°
- Venus quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.7°
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- Logan CostaCape Verdean association football player (born 2001)
- Marc PubillSpanish footballer
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Selman’s cards
Computed from July 22, 1888. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Selman’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232308 (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 New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Higgins, Roger, photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Selman Abraham Waksman at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Selman Abraham Waksman.
Quick answers about Selman Abraham Waksman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Selman Abraham Waksman?
- Selman Abraham Waksman was born on a day when the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Selman Abraham Waksman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1888 birth.
- What was Selman Abraham Waksman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Selman Abraham Waksman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Selman Abraham Waksman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Selman Abraham Waksman's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
