Victor Ambros
Victor Ambros (born December 1, 1953, Hanover (NH), United States), aged 72, is an American developmental biologist. Ambros's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Gruber Prize in Genetics and Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.
Victor Ambros’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Victor
Victor Ambros’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Victor in the U.S.?
#211
US rank in 2025
~332,220
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1953, Victor came 106th among boys and 5,649th among girls, carried by 3,099 American boys and 6 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Victor’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on V (4) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Victor’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1953, 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 Victor apart
Victor Ambros took the Genetics Society of America Medal in 2006, at 53.
Woodstock Union High School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology shaped the training.
The family line: married Rosalind Lee.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Victor Ambros: People from Hanover, New Hampshire, Polish geneticists and Geisel School of Medicine faculty.
Andrew Tate (1986) and Zoë Kravitz (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Woodstock Union High School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2024), Gruber Prize in Genetics (2014) and March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology (2016)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 54
What the chart says
Victor, according to the stars
Core essence
Victor is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Victor is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Victor 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 Victor 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 Victor wants to be loved
Victor 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 Victor even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Victor creates
How Victor 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. Victor 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: Victor is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Victor is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Victor fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Victor's birth date. Working below.
Where Victor sits
Six lines
Victor’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 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 Victor Ambros
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hanover (NH) 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 Hanover (NH) that night
Computed for 43.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Almach stood nearest the zenith over Hanover (NH) at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.9° above the horizon in Andromeda.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 43.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hanover (NH) at all: they sit past the −46.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 18% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.
How unusual Victor's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart · No Earth planets
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.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Victor Ambros's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 1, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Victor Ambros was born on December 1, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Builds it properly or not at all.
Victor Ambros's birth date, December 1, 1953, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Victor’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Victor Ambros' date-only chart is Venus square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- Victor Ambros combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Victor’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussquarePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
Victor’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb
Victor’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineUranus1.7° to 3.0° orb
Victor’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableMarssquareUranus3.7° to 4.4° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter4.0° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto5.5° to 6.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.9° to 6.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Victor’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 18°24′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 29°03′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 24°03′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 0°25′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mars 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.6°
- Eros sextile Venus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.0°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.1°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.4°
Victor’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Victor’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.
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.0°
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- Zoë Kravitz1988
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Victor’s cards
Computed from December 1, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Victor’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q983858 (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 Arthur Petron, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Victor Ambros at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Victor Ambros.
Quick answers about Victor Ambros’s chart
- How old is Victor Ambros?
- Victor Ambros is 72 years old, born December 1, 1953 in Hanover (NH), United States.
- What zodiac sign is Victor Ambros?
- Victor Ambros is a Sagittarius: born December 1, 1953, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Victor Ambros's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 1, 1953 birth.
- What is Victor Ambros's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Victor Ambros's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Victor Ambros's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Victor Ambros's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
