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Anton Zeilinger

Anton Zeilinger (born May 20, 1945, Ried im Innkreis, Austria), aged 81, is an Austrian quantum physicist (born 1945). Zeilinger's honours include Urania Medal, Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna and Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna.

Anton Zeilinger’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Anton Zeilinger’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Anton in the U.S.?

#1389

US rank in 2025

~23,936

Americans share it since 1880

1915

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1945, Anton came 568th, carried by 113 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Anton’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

8

Soul Urge · achievement

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Anton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 5 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid

Ivory · Blush · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1945, 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 Anton apart

Anton Zeilinger took the Kardinal-Innitzer-Preis in 1996, at 51.

The classrooms behind this chart: University of Vienna.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Anton Zeilinger: Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian physicists and European Research Council grantees.

Cher (1946) and José Mujica (1935) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Vienna
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (2022), Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2001) and Wilhelm Exner Medal (2005)
Citizenship
Austria
Languages
German and English
Wikipedia editions
61

What the chart says

Anton, according to the stars

Core essence

Anton 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 Anton 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, Anton is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Anton needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Anton wants to be loved

Anton wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Anton creates

How Anton makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Anton creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Anton is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Anton is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Anton gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Anton's birth date. Working below.

Where Anton sits

Six lines

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Intimate circleWide network
Anton

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Anton

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Anton

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Anton

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Anton

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Anton

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ried im Innkreis on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Anton’s birth-night reference starPhecdablue-white · Ursa MajorPhecda, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 84.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Phecda →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 27.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Ried im Innkreis that night

Computed for 48.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Ried im Innkreis was Phecda, in Ursa Major, 84.2° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 96 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 48.2°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Ried im Innkreis at all: they sit past the −41.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 2° below the horizon, Moon up and 68% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Anton's chart is

Chart pattern score

31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 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.

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Anton Zeilinger at a glance

Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Anton Zeilinger's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 20, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Wood Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Anton Zeilinger was born on May 20, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Anton Zeilinger's birth date, May 20, 1945, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Anton’s chart

Anton’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.1° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.9° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.2° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.3° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.6° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.3° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.7° orbSun in Taurus · 29°01′☉29°Moon in Virgo · 15°42′☽15°Mercury in Taurus · 4°53′☿4°Venus in Aries · 20°26′♀20°Mars in Aries · 13°26′♂13°Jupiter in Virgo · 17°34′♃17°Saturn in Cancer · 8°31′♄8°Uranus in Gemini · 12°22′♅12°Neptune in Libra · 3°49′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Leo · 8°06′♇8°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 7.9° orb

    Anton’s feelings and growth act as one.

  • stableMarssextileUranus0.7° to 1.4° orb

    Anton’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto2.5° to 3.9° orb

    Anton’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn3.0° to 4.3° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune4.3° to 5.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn4.6° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto5.0° to 5.7° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus5.2° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars6.8° to 7.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Anton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 26°59′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 25°58′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLeo 25°42′ (moves 0.84° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 16°53′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 20°57′ (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 opposition Venus 0.5°
  • Chiron trine Sun 2.0°

Anton’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♂ Mars7 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Anton’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 0.6°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.1°

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Anton’s cards

Computed from May 20, 1945. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Anton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q78610 (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 Jaqueline Godany, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Anton Zeilinger at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anton Zeilinger.

Quick answers about Anton Zeilinger’s chart

How old is Anton Zeilinger?
Anton Zeilinger is 81 years old, born May 20, 1945 in Ried im Innkreis, Austria.
What zodiac sign is Anton Zeilinger?
Anton Zeilinger is a Taurus: born May 20, 1945, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Anton Zeilinger's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 20, 1945 birth.
What is Anton Zeilinger's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Anton Zeilinger's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Anton Zeilinger's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Anton Zeilinger's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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