Stanley Cohen
Stanley Cohen (born November 17, 1922, Brooklyn, United States; died 2020), was an American biochemist. Cohen's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize and Rosenstiel Award.
Stanley Cohen’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Stanley
Stanley Cohen’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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
Of the names registered in 1922, Stanley came 41st among boys and 2,467th among girls, carried by 5,045 American boys and 15 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stanley’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on S (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Stanley’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · 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 1922, 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 Stanley apart
Stanley Cohen took the Rosenstiel Award in 1981, at 59.
The classrooms behind this chart: James Madison High School and Brooklyn College.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Stanley Cohen: University of Michigan Medical School alumni, Vanderbilt University faculty and James Madison High School (Brooklyn) alumni.
Martin Scorsese (1942) and Cyril Ramaphosa (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- James Madison High School, Brooklyn College and Oberlin College
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1986), National Medal of Science (1986) and Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1983)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
What the chart says
Stanley, according to the stars
Core essence
Stanley does not do surface. The core of Stanley is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Stanley is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Stanley wants to be loved
Stanley wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Stanley and watch them fall for you again.
How Stanley creates
How Stanley makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Stanley creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Stanley is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Stanley is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Stanley goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Stanley's birth date. Working below.
Where Stanley sits
Six lines
Stanley’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 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 Stanley Cohen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Brooklyn was Mirach, in Andromeda, 83.7° up.
Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.
Sun 49° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
The death is recorded at Nashville, Davidson County in 2020.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Stanley Cohen: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Stanley's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · Grand trine · T-square onto Mercury
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
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Stanley Cohen's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 17, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Stanley Cohen was born on November 17, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Stanley Cohen's birth date, November 17, 1922, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Stanley’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stanley Cohen's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Stanley Cohen combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Stanley’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° 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
stableMercurysquareMars0.6° to 1.5° orb
Stanley’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrinePluto1.3° orb
Stanley’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrinePluto2.0° to 3.6° orb
Stanley’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn2.8° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussquareUranus3.0° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.3° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.7° to 5.3° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.8° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune5.2° to 5.9° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune5.9° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Stanley’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°35′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 11°59′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 16°24′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 3°06′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.8°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 2.2°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.3°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.6°
Stanley’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Stanley’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.
Grand trine · Mercury, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Neptune, 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.
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.4°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 1.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.7°
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Other Steadfast Guardians
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Stanley’s cards
Computed from November 17, 1922. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stanley’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q232299 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stanley Cohen at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Stanley Cohen.
Quick answers about Stanley Cohen’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Stanley Cohen?
- Stanley Cohen was a Scorpio: born November 17, 1922, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Stanley Cohen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 17, 1922 birth.
- What was Stanley Cohen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Stanley Cohen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Stanley Cohen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Stanley Cohen's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
