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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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

US Social Security Administration public records

Bernard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Bernard sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Bernard

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Bernard

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Bernard

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Bernard

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Bernard

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Bernard

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Bernard Katz at a glance

Aries Sun

Starts 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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

Metal Pig

Generous to the last coin.

Bernard Katz was born on March 26, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Bernard Katz's birth date, March 26, 1911, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Bernard’s chart

Bernard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Bernard Katz, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.5° orbVenus fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.3° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 2.8° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.9° orbMoon fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 4.3° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.3° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 4.4° orbSun in Aries · 4°40′Moon in Aquarius · 13°34′13°Mercury in Aries · 10°43′10°Venus in Taurus · 3°01′Mars in Aquarius · 9°14′Jupiter in Scorpio · 13°35′ · retrograde13°Saturn in Taurus · 5°18′Uranus in Capricorn · 28°43′28°Neptune in Cancer · 18°46′ · retrograde18°Pluto in Gemini · 25°56′25°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Conjunction
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

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • 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

    Bernard’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableVenussquareUranus3.7° to 4.9° orb

    Bernard’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter4.0° to 4.8° orb

    Bernard’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunsextileMars4.4° to 4.7° orb

    Bernard’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune5.2° orb

    Bernard’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.5° to 6.6° orb

    Bernard’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussquareMars6.0° to 6.4° orb

    Bernard’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus6.5° to 6.6° orb

    Bernard’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • 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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ChironPisces 4°29′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Bernard absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • CeresTaurus 8°22′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Bernard is read as someone who shows care by providing.

  • ErosAries 5°29′ (moves 0.70° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Bernard is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • HygieaSagittarius 23°60′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Bernard is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

  • Black Moon LilithSagittarius 11°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Bernard leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Bernard’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. Mars10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. Venus6 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Saturn4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Bernard is read as acting first and reflecting after.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Bernard’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bernard Katz, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Bernard

Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Bernard’s cards

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Birth tarot card

Temperance

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

yin Metal

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

yin Metal

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Wood

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Bernard Katz, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Bernard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4517, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Bernard Katz at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig.
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 time was Bernard Katz born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What was Bernard Katz's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the March 26, 1911 birth date.
What was Bernard Katz's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 26, 1911 birth date.
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.

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