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), and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Earth Rat, with 
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Selman’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
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Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Selman Abraham Waksman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 26° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Selman’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextilePluto2.1° to 3.4° orb
Selman’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareMars2.4° to 3.1° orb
Selman’s affections grind against their drive.
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.8° to 3.1° orb
Selman’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineJupiter3.0° to 3.9° orb
Selman’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
Selman’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.8° orb
Selman’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.8° to 4.9° orb
Selman’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn5.3° to 6.4° orb
Selman’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 6°30′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Selman is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresGemini 28°20′ (moves 0.41° 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 Selman feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosGemini 22°54′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Selman is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaLibra 5°14′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Selman is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Selman is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.4°
- Ceres trine Mars 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.3°
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°).
Selman’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Selman 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 Selman’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.5°
- Venus quintile Uranus 1.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Selman Abraham Waksman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Selman’s cards
Every card is computed from July 22, 1888, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
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
No birth time is on public record for Selman Abraham Waksman, 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
Selman’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232308, 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 New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Higgins, Roger, photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 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. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rat.
- 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 time was Selman Abraham Waksman 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 Selman Abraham Waksman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 22, 1888 birth date.
- What was Selman Abraham Waksman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 22, 1888 birth date.
- 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.
