Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim (born September 30, 1955, Hängeberg, Germany), aged 71, is a German electrical engineer (born 1955) Co-founder of Sun Microsystems; early investor in Google.
Andy Bechtolsheim’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Andy
Andy Bechtolsheim’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Andy in the U.S.?
#565
US rank in 2025
~95,492
Americans share it since 1880
2005
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1955, Andy came 304th among boys and 4,383rd among girls, carried by 575 American boys and 8 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Andy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
8
Soul Urge · achievement
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Andy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Blush · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, 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 Andy apart
Training came by way of Carnegie Mellon University and Deutsche Schule Rom.
Monica Bellucci (1964) and Max Verstappen (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Carnegie Mellon University, Deutsche Schule Rom and Bodensee-Gymnasium Lindau
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
Andy, according to the stars
Core essence
Andy makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Andy is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Andy 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 Andy 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 Andy wants to be loved
Andy wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Andy gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Andy creates
How Andy makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Andy builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Andy is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Andy is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Andy 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 Andy's birth date. Working below.
Where Andy sits
Six lines
Andy’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hängeberg on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Hängeberg that night
Computed for 48.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Hängeberg at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 7.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Hängeberg sits at 48.0°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hängeberg at all: they sit past the −42.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 29° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hängeberg, Germany
- Lives in
- Palo Alto
Wikidata records Palo Alto as Andy Bechtolsheim's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Andy Bechtolsheim: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Andy's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Libra · A bundled chart · No retrogrades at all
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
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Andy Bechtolsheim's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 30, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Andy Bechtolsheim was born on September 30, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Andy Bechtolsheim's birth date, September 30, 1955, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Andy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Andy Bechtolsheim's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Andy Bechtolsheim combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Andy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 26° 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.5° to 0.6° orb
Andy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb
Andy’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
Andy’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.9° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.6° to 4.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.7° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Andy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 0°07′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 13°44′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 10°53′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 10°43′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 22°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.4°
- Ceres square Venus 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.5°
- Chiron square Mercury 1.6°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.9°
Andy’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Andy’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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.
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.6°
More people like Andy
Born in Germany
- Martin SemmelroggeGerman actor
- Martin ViessmannGerman businessman
- Ulrich MatthesGerman actor
- Beate HeisterGerman business executive, billionaire heiress
- Thomas KretschmannGerman actor (born 1962)
- Gerd FaltingsGerman mathematician
More charts like Andy’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Virgil AblohAmerican fashion designer
- Tommy LeeAmerican drummer
- Patson DakaZambian association football player
Born in Goat years
- Margaret JosephsAmerican businesswoman and television personality
- Tamra JudgeAmerican reality television personality
- Robert IrwinAustralian conservationist and wildlife photographer (born 2003)
Also born on September 30
- Monica Bellucci1964
- Max Verstappen1997
- Barry Marshall1951
- Ezra Miller1992
- Fran Drescher1957
- T-Pain1984
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Tracy MorganAmerican actor and comedian
- Danny MastersonAmerican former actor and convicted sex offender
- Dominic MonaghanGerman-born British actor
Other Libra Goat charts
- Joe LockeManx actor
- Fernando MendozaAmerican football quarterback (born 2003)
- Buster KeatonAmerican motion picture director, motion picture producer, motion picture producers and director, comedian, actor
- Edna Purvianceactress
Other Evergreen Pioneers
- Elijah MooreAmerican football wide receiver
- Dawson KnoxAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Blake BrandelAmerican football offensive tackle
- Tank BigsbyAmerican football player (born 2001)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Toshihide MaskawaJapanese theoretical physicist
- Christian Lous LangeNorwegian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
- Charles Scott SherringtonEnglish footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Andy’s cards
Computed from September 30, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Andy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q65344 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Andy Bechtolsheim.
Quick answers about Andy Bechtolsheim’s chart
- How old is Andy Bechtolsheim?
- Andy Bechtolsheim is 71 years old, born September 30, 1955 in Hängeberg, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Andy Bechtolsheim?
- Andy Bechtolsheim is a Libra: born September 30, 1955, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Andy Bechtolsheim's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 30, 1955 birth.
- What is Andy Bechtolsheim's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Andy Bechtolsheim's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Andy Bechtolsheim's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Andy Bechtolsheim's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
