Bernard Katz
Bernard Katz (born March 26, 1911, Leipzig, Germany; died 2003), was a German-British biophysicist. Katz's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Knight Bachelor and Copley Medal.
Bernard Katz’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Bernard
Bernard Katz’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 Bernard in the U.S.?
#1362
US rank in 2025
~201,070
Americans share it since 1880
1924
its peak year
In 1911, 777 American boys and 9 girls were registered Bernard — 54th among boys and 1,673rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bernard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on B (2) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Bernard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1911, 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 Bernard apart
The Croonian Medal and Lecture came in 1961, when Bernard Katz was 50.
Study took Bernard Katz to Leipzig University and University College London.
Bernard Katz was raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read Collections of University College London, Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom and British neuroscientists.
Tennessee Williams shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Leipzig University and University College London
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1970), Copley Medal (1967) and Cothenius Medal (1989)
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and Germany
- Languages
- English and German
- Wikipedia editions
- 59
What the chart says
Bernard, according to the stars
Core essence
Bernard leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Bernard is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Bernard needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Bernard needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Bernard wants to be loved
Bernard wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Bernard is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Bernard creates
How Bernard makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Bernard creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Bernard is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Bernard 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Bernard goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Bernard's birth date. Working below.
Where Bernard sits
Six lines
Bernard’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 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 Bernard Katz
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Leipzig 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 Leipzig that night
Computed for 51.34°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Leipzig at 9 p.m. that evening: Talitha of Ursa Major, within 3.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
At 51.3°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 16% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 22° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Leipzig, Germany
The death is recorded at London, Greater London in 2003.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Bernard Katz: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Bernard's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →Bernard Katz at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Bernard Katz's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 26, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Pig
Metal PigGenerous to the last coin.
Bernard Katz was born on March 26, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Bernard Katz's birth date, March 26, 1911, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Bernard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bernard Katz's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Bernard Katz 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.
Bernard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Aquarius 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
stableMoonsquareJupiter0.0° to 6.5° orb
Bernard’s feelings grind against their growth.
stableMercurysextileMars0.9° to 2.1° orb
Bernard’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn1.7° to 2.8° orb
Bernard’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.6° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussquareUranus3.7° to 4.9° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.0° to 4.8° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.4° to 4.7° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.5° to 6.6° orb
stableVenussquareMars6.0° to 6.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.5° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Bernard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 4°29′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 8°22′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 5°29′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 23°60′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 11°18′ (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 Mercury 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.8°
- Ceres square Mars 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.5°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.1°
Bernard’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Bernard’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.
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
Born the same day as Bernard
Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Leipzig, at 51.3°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Bernard
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- Johannes Hans Daniel JensenGerman nuclear physicist
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Born in Pig years
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- Richard Dawkins1941
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Other Evergreen Pioneers
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Bernard’s cards
Computed from March 26, 1911. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bernard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4517 (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 Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bernard Katz at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bernard Katz.
Quick answers about Bernard Katz’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Bernard Katz?
- Bernard Katz was an Aries: born March 26, 1911, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Bernard Katz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 26, 1911 birth.
- What was Bernard Katz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Bernard Katz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Bernard Katz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Bernard Katz's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
