Vera Rubin
Vera Rubin (born Vera Florence Cooper; July 23, 1928, Philadelphia, United States; died 2016), was an American astronomer and physicist. Rubin's honours include Bruce Medal, James Craig Watson Medal and Dickson Prize in Science.
Vera Rubin’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dragon, with 
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Vera Rubin’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Vera in the U.S.?
#205
US rank in 2025
~149,854
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Vera’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Gold · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Vera, according to the stars
Core essence
Vera is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Vera is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Vera cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Vera needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Vera wants to be loved
Vera wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Vera openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Vera creates
How Vera makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Vera builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Vera is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Vera is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Vera 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 Vera's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Vera sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Vera Rubin's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 23, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Vera Rubin was born on July 23, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Vera Rubin's birth date, July 23, 1928, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Vera’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Vera Rubin's date-only chart is Venus trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Vera Rubin combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Vera’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Vera Rubin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Libra 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.
stableVenustrineUranus0.1° to 1.4° orb
Vera’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareJupiter1.0° to 2.1° orb
Vera’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarssextilePluto1.7° to 2.4° orb
Vera’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.0° to 3.0° orb
Vera’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareUranus2.8° to 3.9° orb
Vera’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.6° orb
Vera’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineSaturn5.7° to 7.0° orb
Vera’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto5.8° to 6.9° orb
Vera’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.0° to 6.2° orb
Vera’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.0° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 1.8° to 13.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Vera’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 9°58′ (moves 0.02° 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 Vera building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 17°39′ (moves 0.06° 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: Vera is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 18°00′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Vera is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 20°10′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Vera is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 26°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Vera is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 trine Pluto 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.7°
- Eros trine Pluto 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.0°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.5°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.8°
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°).
Vera’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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Vera is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Vera’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 Leo · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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 · Venus, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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 quintile Mars 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.2°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Vera Rubin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Vera
Leon Fleisher was born on July 23, 1928 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Vera’s cards
Every card is computed from July 23, 1928, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Vera Rubin, 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
Vera’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234888, 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 Photograph by Mark Godfrey, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of Vera Rubin, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Vera Rubin 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 Vera Rubin.
Quick answers about Vera Rubin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Vera Rubin?
- Vera Rubin was a Leo: born July 23, 1928, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
- What was Vera Rubin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 23, 1928 birth.
- What time was Vera Rubin 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 was Vera Rubin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the July 23, 1928 birth date.
- What was Vera Rubin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 23, 1928 birth date.
- Where was Vera Rubin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Vera Rubin's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
