Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan (born September 25, 1866, Lexington, United States; died 1945), was an American biologist. Morgan's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Copley Medal and Darwin Medal.
Thomas Hunt Morgan’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Thomas
Thomas Hunt Morgan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Thomas in the U.S.?
#34
US rank in 2025
~2,367,087
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
US name records start in 1880, 14 years after this birth. In that first year Thomas ranked 8th among boys and 673rd among girls, with 2,534 American boys and 8 girls registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Thomas’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Thomas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Blush · Scarlet
The record
What sets Thomas apart
The Foreign Member of the Royal Society came in 1919, when Thomas Hunt Morgan was 53.
Study took Thomas Hunt Morgan to University of Kentucky and Johns Hopkins University.
The record gives myocardial infarction as the cause, and Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum as the resting place.
On the family side, Thomas Hunt Morgan was born to Ellen Key Howard and Charlton Hunt Morgan, married Lilian Vaughan Morgan and raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read Members of the Lwów Scientific Society, Hunt-Morgan family and Key family (Maryland).
Will Smith (1968) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Kentucky, Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University
- Awards
- Copley Medal (1939), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1933) and Darwin Medal (1924)
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 79
What the chart says
Thomas, according to the stars
Core essence
Thomas makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Thomas is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Thomas runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Thomas needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Thomas wants to be loved
Thomas wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Thomas even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Thomas creates
How Thomas makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Thomas creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Thomas is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Thomas is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Thomas leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Thomas 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 Thomas's birth date. Working below.
Where Thomas sits
Six lines
Thomas’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Thomas Hunt Morgan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lexington 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 Lexington that night
Computed for 38.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Lexington at 9 p.m. that evening: Sadr of Cygnus, within 4.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Lexington sits at 38.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Lexington at all: they sit past the −52.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 28° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Lexington, United States
- Lived in
- Lexington
Wikidata records Lexington as Thomas Hunt Morgan's home, Lexington among them.
The death is recorded at Pasadena, Los Angeles County in 1945.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Thomas Hunt Morgan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Thomas's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Thomas Hunt Morgan's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 25, 1866, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Thomas Hunt Morgan was born on September 25, 1866, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Thomas Hunt Morgan's birth date, September 25, 1866, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Thomas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Thomas Hunt Morgan's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Thomas Hunt Morgan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Thomas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Aries 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
stableMarsconjunctionUranus0.2° to 0.7° orb
Thomas’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.2° to 1.6° orb
Thomas’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.9° orb
Thomas’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareNeptune2.7° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.0° to 4.8° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.4° to 6.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.5° to 6.4° orb
stableSunsquareMars6.1° to 6.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Thomas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 19°55′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 3°23′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 22°37′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 17°59′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.9°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.0°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.6°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.6°
Thomas’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Thomas’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.
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.4°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.5°
More people like Thomas
Other physicians
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- Otto Loewi1873
- Frederick Hopkins1861
- Walter Rudolf Hess1881
- António Egas Moniz1874
- Hans Spemann1869
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- Catherine Zeta-Jones1969
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Thomas’s cards
Computed from September 25, 1866. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Thomas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q177681 (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 Thomas Hunt Morgan at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Thomas Hunt Morgan.
Quick answers about Thomas Hunt Morgan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Thomas Hunt Morgan?
- Thomas Hunt Morgan was a Libra: born September 25, 1866, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Thomas Hunt Morgan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 25, 1866 birth.
- What was Thomas Hunt Morgan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Thomas Hunt Morgan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Thomas Hunt Morgan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Thomas Hunt Morgan's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
