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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rat, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~34,242
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
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Bert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Bert Hölldobler, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Bert’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.8° to 4.1° orb
Bert’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSaturntrinePluto3.8° orb
Bert’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.7° to 4.8° orb
Bert’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter5.6° to 6.6° orb
Bert’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.7° orb
Bert’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
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
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 18°26′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Bert turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 16°24′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Bert is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosLeo 16°06′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Bert loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 15°27′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Bert needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 18°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Bert that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Bert’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. ☽ 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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Bert is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Bert’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.
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 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 semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.4°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.1°
- Sun quintile Neptune 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Bert Hölldobler, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Bert’s cards
Every card is computed from June 25, 1936, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Bert Hölldobler, 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
Bert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q63754, 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 CJ Kazilek, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bert Hölldobler 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat.
- 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 time was Bert Hölldobler 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 is Bert Hölldobler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the June 25, 1936 birth date.
- What is Bert Hölldobler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 25, 1936 birth date.
- 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.
