Alfred Kastler
Alfred Kastler (born May 3, 1902, Guebwiller, France; died 1984), was a French physicist. Kastler is best remembered for Nuclear acoustic resonance and optical pumping. Kastler's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Wilhelm Exner Medal and Holweck Prize.
Alfred Kastler’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Tiger, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Alfred
Alfred Kastler’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 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Alfred in the U.S.?
#840
US rank in 2025
~245,153
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
The SSA recorded 590 American boys and 7 girls named Alfred in 1902: 39th among boys and 1,442nd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alfred’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on A (1) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alfred’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Blush · Soft pink
The record
What sets Alfred apart
Golda Meir (1898) and James Brown (1933) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Alfred, according to the stars
Core essence
Alfred 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 Alfred 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Alfred is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Alfred needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Alfred wants to be loved
Alfred wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Alfred, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Alfred creates
How Alfred 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. Alfred 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: Alfred is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Alfred is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Alfred 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 Alfred's birth date. Working below.
Where Alfred sits
Six lines
Alfred’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 Alfred Kastler
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Guebwiller 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 Guebwiller that night
Computed for 47.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Guebwiller at 9 p.m. that evening: Phecda of Ursa Major, within 6.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 47.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −42.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 21% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.
How unusual Alfred's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Taurus · A leaning bowl · 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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Alfred Kastler's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 3, 1902, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Water Tiger
Water TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Alfred Kastler was born on May 3, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
Alfred Kastler's birth date, May 3, 1902, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Alfred’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alfred Kastler's date-only chart is Venus sextile Saturn, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alfred Kastler 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.
Alfred’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Pisces 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
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.9° to 2.9° orb
Alfred’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.2° to 2.2° orb
Alfred’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
Alfred’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableVenussquareNeptune2.9° to 3.8° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.0° to 3.8° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.7° to 5.9° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars7.5° to 7.7° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 6.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Alfred’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 14°35′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 5°27′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 9°56′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 2°53′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 9°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.6°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.5°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.8°
Alfred’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Alfred’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.7°
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Alfred’s cards
Computed from May 3, 1902. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alfred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q71023 (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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alfred Kastler at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alfred Kastler.
Quick answers about Alfred Kastler’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alfred Kastler?
- Alfred Kastler was a Taurus: born May 3, 1902, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Alfred Kastler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 3, 1902 birth.
- What was Alfred Kastler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alfred Kastler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Alfred Kastler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alfred Kastler's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
