Vincent du Vigneaud
Vincent du Vigneaud (born May 18, 1901, Chicago, United States; died 1978), was an American biochemist. Vigneaud's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, John Scott Award and Willard Gibbs Award.
Vincent du Vigneaud’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Vincent
Vincent du Vigneaud’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Vincent in the U.S.?
#107
US rank in 2025
~364,716
Americans share it since 1880
1962
its peak year
In 1901, 131 American boys were registered Vincent — 129th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Vincent’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on V (4) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Vincent’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
The record
What sets Vincent apart
Tina Fey (1970) and Chow Yun-fat (1955) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Vincent, according to the stars
Core essence
Vincent is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Vincent is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Vincent wants to be loved
Vincent wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Vincent like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Vincent creates
How Vincent 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. Vincent 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: Vincent is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Vincent is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Vincent channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Vincent's birth date. Working below.
Where Vincent sits
Six lines
Vincent’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Vincent du Vigneaud
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.9° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
Chicago sits at 41.9°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 −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.
How unusual Vincent's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Gemini · No Water 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.
Score your own chart →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Vincent du Vigneaud's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 18, 1901, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Ox
Metal OxSlow, steady, never quits.
Vincent du Vigneaud was born on May 18, 1901, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Vincent du Vigneaud's birth date, May 18, 1901, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Vincent’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Vincent du Vigneaud's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Vincent du Vigneaud combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Vincent’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Vincent’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 1.6° orb
Vincent’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareMars0.5° to 1.3° orb
Vincent’s affections grind against their drive.
stableUranusoppositionPluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn3.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.3° to 5.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.6° to 4.8° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.3° to 5.9° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.2° to 14.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Vincent’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 4°38′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 16°01′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 0°30′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 22°28′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 0°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Saturn 0.0°
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Eros square Venus 1.3°
- Eros square Mercury 1.5°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.9°
- Eros conjunction Mars 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.6°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.7°
Vincent’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Vincent’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Mercury, Venus, Neptune, 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on May 18
- Tina Fey1970
- Chow Yun-fat1955
- Teresa Giudice1972
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- Theodor Loos1883
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Rudolf Ludwig MössbauerGerman nuclear physicist and Noble Prize in Physics
- Albert SchweitzerFrench-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher
- Adolf von BaeyerGerman chemist
Other Taurus Ox charts
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- Jeff TimmonsAmerican singer
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Vincent’s cards
Computed from May 18, 1901. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Vincent’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q33128 (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 Maxdugan26, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Vincent du Vigneaud at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Vincent du Vigneaud.
Quick answers about Vincent du Vigneaud’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Vincent du Vigneaud?
- Vincent du Vigneaud was a Taurus: born May 18, 1901, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Vincent du Vigneaud's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 18, 1901 birth.
- What was Vincent du Vigneaud's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Vincent du Vigneaud's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Vincent du Vigneaud's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Vincent du Vigneaud's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
