Stephen Smale
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930, Flint, United States), aged 96, is an American mathematician. Smale is best known for Smale conjecture, Morse–Smale system and Palais–Smale compactness condition. Smale's honours include Fields medal, Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit and Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.
Stephen Smale’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Horse, with 
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Stephen Smale’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Stephen in the U.S.?
#383
US rank in 2025
~867,669
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Stephen, according to the stars
Core essence
Stephen feels the room before entering it. The core of Stephen is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Stephen, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Stephen is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Stephen needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Stephen wants to be loved
Stephen wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Stephen and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Stephen creates
How Stephen makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Stephen creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Stephen 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Stephen is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Stephen scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Stephen's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Stephen Smale's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 15, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Stephen Smale was born on July 15, 1930, which falls in a Metal 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 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Stephen Smale's birth date, July 15, 1930, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Stephen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stephen Smale's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Stephen Smale combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Stephen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Stephen Smale, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Pisces 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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.9° orb
Stephen’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareMars0.1° to 0.6° orb
Stephen’s affections grind against their drive.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 1.2° orb
Stephen’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.7° to 1.4° orb
Stephen’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb
Stephen’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.5° to 4.6° orb
Stephen’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.6° to 3.5° orb
Stephen’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.7° to 3.7° orb
Stephen’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.1° to 3.4° orb
Stephen’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableUranussquarePluto3.9° orb
Stephen’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.6° to 5.7° orb
Stephen’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineSaturn5.7° to 7.0° orb
Stephen’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Stephen’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 18°10′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Stephen building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLeo 0°45′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Stephen is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosTaurus 3°57′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Stephen wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 3°30′ (moves 0.28° 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 Stephen needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 16°50′ (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 Stephen 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.
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.1°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.7°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.1°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.7°
- Eros trine Venus 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°).
Stephen’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. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Stephen is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Stephen’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 Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, PlutoThree 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.
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Stephen Smale, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Stephen’s cards
Every card is computed from July 15, 1930, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Stephen Smale, 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
Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q315394, 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 George Bergman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stephen Smale 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 Stephen Smale.
Quick answers about Stephen Smale’s chart
- How old is Stephen Smale?
- Stephen Smale is 96 years old, born July 15, 1930 in Flint, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Stephen Smale?
- Stephen Smale is a Cancer: born July 15, 1930, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Horse.
- What is Stephen Smale's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 15, 1930 birth.
- What time was Stephen Smale 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 Stephen Smale's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 15, 1930 birth date.
- What is Stephen Smale's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 15, 1930 birth date.
- Where is Stephen Smale's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Stephen Smale's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
