Wendell Meredith Stanley
Wendell Meredith Stanley (born August 16, 1904, Ridgeville, United States; died 1971), was an American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946). Stanley served as professor. Stanley's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Willard Gibbs Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Wendell Meredith Stanley’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Wendell
Wendell Meredith Stanley’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Wendell in the U.S.?
#2165
US rank in 2025
~54,330
Americans share it since 1880
1940
its peak year
In 1904, 32 American boys were registered Wendell — 359th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Wendell’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
8
Soul Urge · achievement
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on W (5) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Wendell’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
The record
What sets Wendell apart
Madonna (1958) and James Cameron (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Wendell, according to the stars
Core essence
Wendell is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Wendell 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.
How Wendell wants to be loved
Wendell wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Wendell and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Wendell creates
How Wendell makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Wendell 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: Wendell 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Wendell is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Wendell fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Wendell's birth date. Working below.
Where Wendell sits
Six lines
Wendell’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 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.
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 Wendell Meredith Stanley
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ridgeville 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 Ridgeville that night
Computed for 40.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Ridgeville at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 5.3° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
Ridgeville sits at 40.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Ridgeville on any night.
The Moon, 39% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 24° below the horizon.
How unusual Wendell's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · T-square onto Mercury · 1 planet at a critical degree
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
Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Wendell Meredith Stanley's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 16, 1904, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Wendell Meredith Stanley was born on August 16, 1904, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Better with someone at their back.
Wendell Meredith Stanley's birth date, August 16, 1904, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Wendell’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Wendell Meredith Stanley's date-only chart is Mars square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Wendell Meredith Stanley combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Wendell’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableMercurysquarePluto0.4° to 1.5° orb
Wendell’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.5° to 1.2° orb
Wendell’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextilePluto1.4° to 2.4° orb
Wendell’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineUranus2.2° to 3.2° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.5° to 4.7° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto4.6° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus5.0° to 6.2° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.7° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Wendell’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 25°50′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 9°34′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 11°14′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 5°46′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 12°31′ (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 1.5°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.6°
Wendell’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Wendell’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Uranus, Pluto, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.0°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 1.1°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 1.2°
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Also born on August 16
- Madonna1958
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Wendell’s cards
Computed from August 16, 1904. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Wendell’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q105937 (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 Wendell Meredith Stanley at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Wendell Meredith Stanley.
Quick answers about Wendell Meredith Stanley’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Wendell Meredith Stanley?
- Wendell Meredith Stanley was a Leo: born August 16, 1904, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Wendell Meredith Stanley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 16, 1904 birth.
- What was Wendell Meredith Stanley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Wendell Meredith Stanley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Wendell Meredith Stanley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Wendell Meredith Stanley's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
