Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner (born May 28, 1942, Des Moines, United States), aged 84, is an American neurologist and biochemist. Prusiner's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize and Wolf Prize in Medicine.
Stanley B. Prusiner’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Horse, with 
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Stanley B. Prusiner’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Stanley in the U.S.?
#863
US rank in 2025
~302,862
Americans share it since 1880
1954
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Stanley’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Stanley, according to the stars
Core essence
Stanley is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Stanley needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Stanley feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Stanley needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Stanley wants to be loved
Stanley 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 Stanley creates
How Stanley makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Stanley creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Stanley is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Stanley is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Stanley does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Stanley's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Stanley sits
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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.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Stanley B. Prusiner's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 28, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Stanley B. Prusiner was born on May 28, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Stanley B. Prusiner's birth date, May 28, 1942, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Stanley’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stanley B. Prusiner's date-only chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Stanley B. Prusiner combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Stanley’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Stanley B. Prusiner, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° Scorpio 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.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Stanley’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
Stanley’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
Stanley’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.6° to 2.5° orb
Stanley’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.7° to 1.9° orb
Stanley’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus1.7° to 1.8° orb
Stanley’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.8° to 1.9° orb
Stanley’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextilePluto2.4° to 3.3° orb
Stanley’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussextilePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
Stanley’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
Stanley’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.7° to 4.6° orb
Stanley’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareMars5.0° to 5.5° orb
Stanley’s affections grind against their drive.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Stanley’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.
⚷ ChironLeo 10°16′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Stanley performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresPisces 24°31′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Stanley is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 25°14′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Stanley is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaGemini 24°03′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Stanley needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Stanley that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Eros trine Mercury 0.1°
- Eros sextile Venus 0.1°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.3°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.6°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.6°
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°).
Stanley’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. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Stanley is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Stanley’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.
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.9°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Stanley B. Prusiner, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Stanley’s cards
Every card is computed from May 28, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Stanley B. Prusiner, 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
Stanley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q155380, 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 Christopher Michel, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stanley B. Prusiner 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.
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Quick answers about Stanley B. Prusiner’s chart
- How old is Stanley B. Prusiner?
- Stanley B. Prusiner is 84 years old, born May 28, 1942 in Des Moines, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Stanley B. Prusiner?
- Stanley B. Prusiner is a Gemini: born May 28, 1942, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse.
- What is Stanley B. Prusiner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 28, 1942 birth.
- What time was Stanley B. Prusiner 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 is Stanley B. Prusiner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the May 28, 1942 birth date.
- What is Stanley B. Prusiner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 28, 1942 birth date.
- Where is Stanley B. Prusiner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Stanley B. Prusiner's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
