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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Sidney’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Sidney sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Sidney Altman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Sagittarius or 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.
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
Sidney’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareMars2.9° to 3.7° orb
Sidney’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
Sidney’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.3° to 4.4° orb
Sidney’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableSuntrineNeptune4.0° to 5.0° orb
Sidney’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb
Sidney’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionPluto5.4° to 5.8° orb
Sidney’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineUranus5.8° to 6.2° orb
Sidney’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.9° to 6.0° orb
Sidney’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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°28′ (moves 0.08° 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. Sidney is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresGemini 17°38′ (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 Sidney feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAries 15°29′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Sidney is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 13°01′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Sidney is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 15°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Sidney at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Sidney’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. ♂ 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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Sidney is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Sidney’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Sidney Altman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Sidney’s cards
Every card is computed from May 7, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Sidney Altman, 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
Sidney’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q102266, 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 NIH, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sidney Altman at Wikipedia.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit.
- 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 time was Sidney Altman 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 Sidney Altman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the May 7, 1939 birth date.
- What was Sidney Altman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 7, 1939 birth date.
- 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.
