Birth Chart
Stephen Jay Gould
Sun Virgo
Moon Taurus
Ascendant Libra
Influences in signs
↣ Sun in Virgo - 17°23' - in house 12
↣ Moon in Taurus - 11°26' - in house 8
↣ Mercury in Libra - 05°34' - in house 1
↣ Venus in Libra - 24°29' - in house 1
↣ Mars in Aries - 23°37' - in house 7 - retrograde
↣ Jupiter in Gemini - 20°01' - in house 9
↣ Saturn in Taurus - 28°33' - in house 8/9
↣ Uranus in Gemini - 00°20' - in house 8/9 - retrograde
↣ Neptune in Virgo - 27°03' - in house 12
↣ Pluto in Leo - 05°06' - in house 10/11
↣ North Node in Virgo - 22°45' - in house 12
↣ Ascendant in Libra - 10°26' - in house 1
↣ Midheaven in Cancer - 12°07' - in house 10
↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Libra - 14°19'
Influences in houses
↣ Sun in house 12
↣ Moon in house 8
↣ Mercury in house 1
↣ Venus in house 1
↣ Mars in house 7
↣ Jupiter in house 9
↣ Saturn in house 8/9
↣ Uranus in house 8/9
↣ Neptune in house 12
↣ Pluto in house 10/11
↣ North Node in house 12
↣ Ascendant in house 1
↣ Midheaven in house 10
Aspects
↣ Sun and Moon trine (5°57' applying)
↣ Sun and Mars parallel
↣ Sun and Jupiter square (2°37' applying)
↣ Sun and Neptune conjunction (9°39' applying)
↣ Sun and North Node conjunction (5°21' applying)
↣ Sun and Ascendant antiparallel
↣ Sun and Midheaven sextile (5°17' applying)
↣ Moon and Pluto square (6°20' separating)
↣ Moon and Midheaven sextile (0°41' separating)
↣ Mercury and Uranus trine (5°14' separating)
↣ Mercury and Neptune conjunction (8°31' separating) antiparallel
↣ Mercury and Pluto sextile (0°28' separating)
↣ Mercury and North Node antiparallel
↣ Mercury and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (8°44' separating)
↣ Mercury and Ascendant conjunction (4°52' separating)
↣ Venus and Mars opposition (0°53' separating)
↣ Venus and Jupiter trine (4°29' separating)
↣ Venus and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (10°11' applying)
↣ Mars and Jupiter sextile (3°36' applying)
↣ Mars and Equatorial Ascendant opposition (9°19' applying)
↣ Mars and Ascendant antiparallel
↣ Jupiter and Pluto parallel
↣ Jupiter and North Node square (2°44' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Equatorial Ascendant trine (5°43' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Midheaven parallel
↣ Saturn and Uranus conjunction (1°48' applying)
↣ Saturn and Neptune trine (1°30' applying)
↣ Saturn and North Node trine (5°48' applying)
↣ Uranus and Neptune trine (3°18' applying)
↣ Uranus and Pluto sextile (4°45' separating)
↣ Neptune and North Node conjunction (4°18' separating) parallel
↣ Pluto and Ascendant sextile (5°20' separating)
↣ Pluto and Midheaven parallel
Birth data
- Chart date
- 10/09/1941
- Chart time
- 09:32
- Date and time quality
- AA Birth record in hand what does this mean?
- Data origin
- Astro-Databank
- Location
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Manhattan (NY), USA - Latitude and longitude
- 40°46' North · 73°59' West
- Time zone
- 04:00 West
The data used to calculate the charts comes from public sources, as do the descriptive texts. We use sources such as Wikipedia.
About
Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science, widely known as one of the most influential science communicators of his generation. He spent much of his career as a professor at Harvard and was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History; he also taught at New York University as the Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor.
His most notable theoretical contribution, developed with Niles Eldredge in 1972, was the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which proposes long periods of evolutionary stability interrupted by relatively rapid episodes of speciation—an alternative to phyletic gradualism. Much of his empirical research focused on land-snail genera such as Poecilozonites and Cerion, and he influenced evolutionary developmental biology with the book Ontogeny and Phylogeny.
Gould also opposed orthodox forms of selectionism and resisted reductionist applications of sociobiology to human behavior. He spoke out against creationism and advocated the idea of “nonoverlapping magisteria” between science and religion. To the general public he became known for roughly 300 essays in Natural History magazine and for numerous books that combined scientific rigor with accessible prose.
His public engagement included involvement in social causes and criticism of pseudoscience tied to racism; he received significant cultural recognition, being named a “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress in 2000. He died in 2002, leaving a lasting legacy in evolutionary theory and science communication.
