Bert Hölldobler
Bert Hölldobler (born June 25, 1936, Andechs, Germany), aged 90, is a German biologist. Hölldobler's honours include Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cothenius Medal and Alfried-Krupp Science Prize.
Bert Hölldobler’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Bert
Bert Hölldobler’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Bert in the U.S.?
#10866
US rank in 2025
~34,242
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
The SSA recorded 376 American boys and 6 girls named Bert in 1936: 278th among boys and 3,743rd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Bert’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on B (2) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 3: tact against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Bert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange
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 1936, 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 Bert apart
The Humboldt Prize came in 1986, when Bert Hölldobler was 50.
Study took Bert Hölldobler to University of Würzburg.
Bert Hölldobler was married Turid Holldobler-Forsyth.
Wikipedia files Bert Hölldobler under People from Starnberg (district), Fellows of the Entomological Society of America and Chemical ecologists.
George Orwell (1903) and George Michael (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Würzburg
- Awards
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (2003), Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1991) and Humboldt Prize (1986)
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Languages
- English and German
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Bert, according to the stars
Core essence
Bert feels the room before entering it. The core of Bert is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Bert, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Bert 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 Bert needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Bert wants to be loved
Bert wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Bert gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Bert creates
How Bert makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Bert creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Bert is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Bert 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.
Computed from Bert's birth date. Working below.
Where Bert sits
Six lines
Bert’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 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Bert Hölldobler
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Andechs 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 Andechs that night
Computed for 47.97°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Andechs at 9 p.m. that evening: Edasich of Draco, within 11.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Andechs 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.
Nothing below −42.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Andechs on any night.
The Moon, 41% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
How unusual Bert's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Jupiter · 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 →Bert Hölldobler at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Bert Hölldobler's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 25, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Bert Hölldobler was born on June 25, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Bert Hölldobler's birth date, June 25, 1936, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Bert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bert Hölldobler's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Bert Hölldobler combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Bert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.9° to 1.2° orb
Bert’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.2° to 3.1° orb
Bert’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.6° to 3.2° orb
Bert’s affections and drive act as one.
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars3.8° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.8° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter5.6° to 6.6° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Bert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 18°26′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 16°24′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 16°06′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 15°27′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 18°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.2°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.2°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.3°
Bert’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Bert’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Venus, PlutoThree 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.
T-square onto Neptune · Mercury, Jupiter, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.4°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.1°
- Sun quintile Neptune 1.4°
More people like Bert
Born in Germany
- Harald zur HausenGerman virologist and professor emeritus
- Gerhard ErtlGerman physicist
- Reinhold WürthGerman businessman
- Robert HuberGerman chemist (1937-)
- Paul GauselmannGerman businessman
- Klaus-Michael KühneGerman billionaire and businessman
More charts like Bert’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- James Forman, Jr.American author and professor
- Mark S. WatsonAmerican editor and correspondent
- Ralph Barton PerryAmerican philosopher
Born in Rat years
- Philipp LienhartAustrian association football player (born 1996)
- Giovani Lo CelsoArgentine association football player
- Patrick PentzAustrian association football player
Also born on June 25
- George Orwell1903
- George Michael1963
- Anthony Bourdain1956
- Alexei Abrikosov1928
- Ricky Gervais1961
- Dikembe Mutombo1966
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- EstevãoBrazilian footballer
- Ardie SaveaNew Zealand rugby union player
- Pieter-Steph du ToitSouth African rugby union footballer
Other Cancer Rat charts
- Yann Le CunFrench computer scientist
- Lele PonsVenezuelan–American YouTuber
- Ben SimmonsAustralian basketball player
- Sky BrownBritish-Japanese skateboarder and surfer
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Evan Rachel WoodAmerican actress
- Karl UrbanNew Zealand actor
- Sebastian StanRomanian and American actor
- Amancio OrtegaSpanish business tycoon
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Pat McAfeeAmerican football player and businessman (born 1987)
- Kate MaraAmerican actress (born 1983)
- Patrick MahomesAmerican football player (born 1995)
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Bert’s cards
Computed from June 25, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q63754 (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 CJ Kazilek, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bert Hölldobler at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bert Hölldobler.
Quick answers about Bert Hölldobler’s chart
- How old is Bert Hölldobler?
- Bert Hölldobler is 90 years old, born June 25, 1936 in Andechs, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Bert Hölldobler?
- Bert Hölldobler is a Cancer: born June 25, 1936, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Bert Hölldobler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 25, 1936 birth.
- What is Bert Hölldobler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Bert Hölldobler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Bert Hölldobler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Bert Hölldobler's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
