Stanford Moore
Stanford Moore (born September 4, 1913, Chicago, United States; died 1982), was an American biochemist. Moore's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry and doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris.
Stanford Moore’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Stanford
Stanford Moore’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Stanford in the U.S.?
#7131
US rank in 2025
~7,727
Americans share it since 1880
1954
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1913, Stanford came 578th, carried by 58 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stanford’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
6
Soul Urge · being needed
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on S (1) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Stanford’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1913, 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 Stanford apart
Stanford Moore took the doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris in 1964, at 51.
University School of Nashville and University of Wisconsin-Madison shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Stanford Moore: University School of Nashville alumni, Vanderbilt University alumni and Rockefeller University faculty.
Beyoncé (1981) and Liz Greene (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University School of Nashville, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Vanderbilt University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1972) and doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1964)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 54
What the chart says
Stanford, according to the stars
Core essence
Stanford notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Stanford is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Stanford wants to be loved
Stanford 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 Stanford openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Stanford creates
How Stanford makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Stanford creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Stanford is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Stanford 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.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Stanford scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Stanford's birth date. Working below.
Where Stanford sits
Six lines
Stanford’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 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 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 Stanford Moore
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Sadr stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.6° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 25% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1982.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Stanford Moore: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Stanford's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Stanford Moore's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 4, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Stanford Moore was born on September 4, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Stanford Moore's birth date, September 4, 1913, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Stanford’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stanford Moore's date-only chart is Venus opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Stanford Moore combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Stanford’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.4° orb
Stanford’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Stanford’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSuntrineJupiter3.1° to 4.1° orb
Stanford’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSunsquareSaturn5.5° to 6.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.9° to 6.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 7.1° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.0° to 7.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.0° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Stanford’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 12°48′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 27°43′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo or Libra during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 28°15′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 20°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Neptune 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Sun 1.2°
- Eros square Pluto 1.3°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.3°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.9°
Stanford’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Stanford’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.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.0°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.4°
- Sun quintile Pluto 1.4°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.4°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°
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- Beyoncé1981
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Stanford’s cards
Computed from September 4, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stanford’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110952 (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.
The same Stanford Moore at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Stanford Moore.
Quick answers about Stanford Moore’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Stanford Moore?
- Stanford Moore was a Virgo: born September 4, 1913, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Stanford Moore's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 4, 1913 birth.
- What was Stanford Moore's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Stanford Moore's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Stanford Moore's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Stanford Moore's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
