Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman (born May 7, 1939, Montreal, Canada; died 2022), was a Canadian American molecular biologist. Altman's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Sterling Professor and Lomonosov Gold Medal.
Sidney Altman’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Sidney
Sidney Altman’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Sidney in the U.S.?
#1327
US rank in 2025
~108,987
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1939, Sidney came 173rd among boys and 888th among girls, carried by 861 American boys and 63 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sidney’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sidney’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, 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 Sidney apart
Sidney Altman took the Rosenstiel Award in 1988, at 49.
Training came by way of University of Colorado Boulder and Columbia University.
The grave is at Congregation Mishkan Israel Cemetery.
The family line: married Ann M. Altman.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Sidney Altman: Canadian biophysicists, Academics from Montreal and American molecular biologists.
Eva Perón (1919) and MrBeast (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Colorado Boulder, Columbia University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989), Rosenstiel Award (1988) and Lomonosov Gold Medal (2016)
- Buried at
- Congregation Mishkan Israel Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Canada and United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
What the chart says
Sidney, according to the stars
Core essence
Sidney is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Sidney is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Sidney wants to be loved
Sidney wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Sidney creates
How Sidney 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. Sidney 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: Sidney is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Sidney is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Sidney does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Sidney's birth date. Working below.
Where Sidney sits
Six lines
Sidney’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Sidney Altman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Montreal 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 Montreal that night
Computed for 45.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Montreal at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 9.2° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
Montreal sits at 45.5°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −44.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 81% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 8° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Montreal, Canada
The death is recorded at Rockleigh, Bergen County in 2022.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sidney Altman: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Sidney's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · T-square onto Saturn · No Air planets
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
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Sidney Altman's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 7, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Sidney Altman was born on May 7, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Sidney Altman's birth date, May 7, 1939, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Sidney’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sidney Altman's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sidney Altman combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Sidney’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableJupitertrinePluto0.0° to 0.2° orb
Sidney’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.4° to 0.7° orb
Sidney’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionUranus1.1° to 2.0° orb
Sidney’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarstrineNeptune2.8° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysquareMars2.9° to 3.7° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto5.4° to 5.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus5.8° to 6.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.9° to 6.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Sidney’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 6°28′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 17°38′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 15°29′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 13°01′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 15°20′ (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 Sun 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.8°
Sidney’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Sidney’s chart
Grand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Saturn · Mars, Pluto, SaturnAn 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.
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.3°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Sun quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 2.0°
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Born in Rabbit years
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- Eva Perón1919
- MrBeast1998
- J Balvin1985
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- Scheana Shay1985
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Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
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- Sam LaPortaAmerican football player (born 2001)
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- Tuli TuipulotuAmerican football player (born 2002)
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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Sidney’s cards
Computed from May 7, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sidney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q102266 (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 NIH, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sidney Altman at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sidney Altman.
Quick answers about Sidney Altman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sidney Altman?
- Sidney Altman was a Taurus: born May 7, 1939, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Sidney Altman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 7, 1939 birth.
- What was Sidney Altman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Sidney Altman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Sidney Altman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sidney Altman's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
