Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa (born September 24, 1905, Ḷḷuarca, Spain; died 1993), was a Spanish physician. Ochoa's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Medal of Science and Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer.
Severo Ochoa’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Severo
Severo Ochoa’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Severo in the U.S.?
#11776
US rank in 2025
~1,400
Americans share it since 1904
1924
its peak year
US records hold Severo from 1904 onward, though not for 1905 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1924 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Severo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on S (1) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Severo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Blush · Botanical green
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 1905, 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 Severo apart
The Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer came in 1955, when Severo Ochoa was 50.
Study took Severo Ochoa to Instituto San Isidoro and Universidad Central.
Severo Ochoa lies at Ḷḷuarca.
Wikipedia files Severo Ochoa under New York University Grossman School of Medicine faculty, People from Valdés, Asturias and American people of Asturian descent.
Birgit Sarrap (1988) and Hannah Brown (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Instituto San Isidoro, Universidad Central and Grossman School of Medicine
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1959), National Medal of Science (1979) and Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (1955)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Buried at
- Ḷḷuarca
- Citizenship
- United States and Spain
- Languages
- English and Spanish
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
What the chart says
Severo, according to the stars
Core essence
Severo makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Severo is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Severo wants to be loved
Severo 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 Severo openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Severo creates
How Severo makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Severo creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Severo is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Severo is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Severo has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Severo's birth date. Working below.
Where Severo sits
Six lines
Severo’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Severo Ochoa
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ḷḷuarca 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 Ḷḷuarca that night
Computed for 43.54°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Ḷḷuarca at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 2.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
Ḷḷuarca sits at 43.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −46.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 21% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 28° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Ḷḷuarca, Spain
The death is recorded at Madrid, Community of Madrid in 1993.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Severo Ochoa: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Severo's chart is
Chart pattern score
45 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · 2 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet
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 →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Severo Ochoa's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 24, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Severo Ochoa was born on September 24, 1905, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Severo Ochoa's birth date, September 24, 1905, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Severo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Severo Ochoa's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Severo Ochoa combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Severo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Cancer or Leo 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
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Severo’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb
Severo’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsoppositionPluto1.6° to 2.3° orb
Severo’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenustrineUranus3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussextilePluto3.4° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto5.1° to 6.8° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter5.3° to 6.2° orb
stableVenustrineMars5.7° to 6.3° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto7.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Severo’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 1°29′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 7°42′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 0°39′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 21°11′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 27°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Sun 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Chiron trine Sun 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.7°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.2°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.8°
Severo’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Severo’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Pluto, MercuryAn 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.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 2.0°
More people like Severo
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- Jack Williamson1908
- Pablo Neruda1904
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Born in Spain
- Ariadna GilSpanish actress
- Sandra Ortega MeraSpanish billionaire, daughter of the founders of the clothing giant Inditex
- Felipe VI of SpainKing of Spain since 2014
- Sergi LópezSpanish actor
- Yann MartelCanadian writer
- Antonio BanderasSpanish actor
More charts like Severo’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Linda HamiltonAmerican actress
- Peter BoyleAmerican actor
- Meat LoafAmerican singer and actor
Born in Snake years
- John DarntonAmerican journalist
- David S. BroderAmerican Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Robert HassAmerican poet
Also born on September 24
- Birgit Sarrap1988
- Hannah Brown1994
- Dale Moss1988
- Ben Platt1993
- Joe Locke2003
- Pablo Rago1972
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Bogdan BogdanovićSerbian basketball player (born 1992)
- John ButlerAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Jeremiah FearsAmerican basketball player (born 2006)
Other Libra Snake charts
- Richard HowardAmerican poet and literary critic
- John Edward MackAmerican psychiatrist
- Claude H. Van TyneAmerican historian
- Arthur M. SchlesingerAmerican historian, social critic, and public intellectual
Other Radiant Diplomats
- Rita WilsonAmerican actress, singer and producer
- Wayne RooneyEnglish footballer and manager
- Gabriel BortoletoBrazilian racing driver
- David PopoviciRomanian swimmer
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Leo WoodallBritish actor (born 1996)
- Lisa Ann WalterAmerican actress
- Carnie WilsonAmerican singer
From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Severo’s cards
Computed from September 24, 1905. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Severo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q233957 (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 Irwin Gooen (NY University), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Severo Ochoa at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Severo Ochoa.
Quick answers about Severo Ochoa’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Severo Ochoa?
- Severo Ochoa was a Libra: born September 24, 1905, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Severo Ochoa's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 24, 1905 birth.
- What was Severo Ochoa's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Severo Ochoa's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Severo Ochoa's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Severo Ochoa's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
