Val Logsdon Fitch
Val Logsdon Fitch (born March 10, 1923, Merriman, United States; died 2015), was an American physicist. Fitch's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science and Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award.
Val Logsdon Fitch’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Val
Val Logsdon Fitch’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Storyteller
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Val in the U.S.?
#4692
US rank in 2025
~7,406
Americans share it since 1882
1952
its peak year
The SSA recorded 61 American boys and 11 girls named Val in 1923: 881st among boys and 3,107th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Val’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on V (4) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 6: voice against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Val’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1923, 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 Val apart
The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award came in 1968, when Val Logsdon Fitch was 45.
The schooling ran through Chadron State College and Northwestern University.
Wikipedia files Val Logsdon Fitch under People from Cherry County, Nebraska, Chadron State College alumni and McGill Faculty of Engineering alumni.
Sharon Stone (1958) and Bad Bunny (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Chadron State College, Northwestern University and McGill University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1980), National Medal of Science (1993) and Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1968)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 65
What the chart says
Val, according to the stars
Core essence
Val feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Val is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Val wants to be loved
Val wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Val be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Val creates
How Val makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Val creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Val is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Val 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 Val leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Val is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Val's birth date. Working below.
Where Val sits
Six lines
Val’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 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 Val Logsdon Fitch
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Merriman 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 Merriman that night
Computed for 42.92°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Merriman was Talitha, in Ursa Major, 82.5° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
Merriman sits at 42.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 35% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Merriman, United States
The death is recorded at Princeton, Mercer County in 2015.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Val Logsdon Fitch: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Val's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Val Logsdon Fitch's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 10, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Val Logsdon Fitch was born on March 10, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Val Logsdon Fitch's birth date, March 10, 1923, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Val’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Val Logsdon Fitch's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Val Logsdon Fitch combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Storyteller.
Val’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Val’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableVenussquareMars0.2° to 0.6° orb
Val’s affections grind against their drive.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.8° orb
Val’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.9° orb
stableMarssextilePluto4.0° to 4.7° orb
stableUranustrinePluto4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus4.9° to 5.8° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.0° to 5.1° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.6° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 6.5° to 18.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Val’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 15°19′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 26°16′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 24°15′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 17°34′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.2°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.3°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.9°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.3°
Val’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Val’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 semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.1°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.1°
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Born in United States
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Fellow Pisces suns
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on March 10
- Sharon Stone1958
- Bad Bunny1994
- Olivia Wilde1984
- Jon Hamm1971
- Rick Rubin1963
- MY HUSBAND2007
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Alex WassabiAmerican actor and YouTuber
- Brittany RennerAmerican fitness model
- Corbin BleuAmerican actor
Other Pisces Pig charts
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- Irene CaraAmerican singer and actress
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Other Tidal Storytellers
- Arthur C. ClarkeBritish science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist
- Tom CruiseAmerican actor and producer
- Ayn RandRussian-born American writer and public philosopher
- Paul DiracBritish theoretical physicist
Famous people with Life Path 1
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Val’s cards
Computed from March 10, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Val’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q206499 (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.
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The same Val Logsdon Fitch at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Val Logsdon Fitch.
Quick answers about Val Logsdon Fitch’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Val Logsdon Fitch?
- Val Logsdon Fitch was a Pisces: born March 10, 1923, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Val Logsdon Fitch's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 10, 1923 birth.
- What was Val Logsdon Fitch's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Val Logsdon Fitch's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Val Logsdon Fitch's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Val Logsdon Fitch's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
