Bert Kaempfert
Bert Kaempfert (born October 16, 1923, Hamburg, Germany; died 1980), was a German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger and composer. Kaempfert's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and Goldene Stimmgabel.
Bert Kaempfert’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Bert
Bert Kaempfert’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water 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 573 American boys and 15 girls named Bert in 1923: 231st among boys and 2,374th 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.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on B (2) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
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 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1923, 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 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song came in 1967, when Bert Kaempfert was 44.
Bert Kaempfert was 16 when the work began in 1939.
Cause of death is recorded as stroke.
Wikipedia files Bert Kaempfert under German jazz bandleaders, Exotica musicians and Composers from Hamburg.
Günter Grass (1927) and Naomi Osaka (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- trombone
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song (1967) and Goldene Stimmgabel (1984)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Song of the Year
- Working from
- 1939
- Cause of death
- stroke
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 19
What the chart says
Bert, according to the stars
Core essence
Bert makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Bert is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Bert is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Bert needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Bert wants to be loved
Bert wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Bert even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Bert creates
How Bert makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Bert creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Bert 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Bert channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Bert Kaempfert
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hamburg 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 Hamburg that night
Computed for 53.55°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Hamburg at 9 p.m. that evening: Alderamin of Cepheus, within 11.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Hamburg sits at 53.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −36.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hamburg on any night.
Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon up and 50% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hamburg, Germany
The death is recorded at Mallorca, Balearic Islands in 1980.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Bert Kaempfert: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Bert's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Libra · 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.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Bert Kaempfert's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 16, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Bert Kaempfert was born on October 16, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Bert Kaempfert's birth date, October 16, 1923, 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 Kaempfert's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Bert Kaempfert combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Bert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Capricorn 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
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.4° to 1.3° orb
Bert’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.4° to 1.6° orb
Bert’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileNeptune1.6° to 2.6° orb
Bert’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrinePluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.0° to 5.6° orb
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 5.6° to 18.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 18°36′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 2°05′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 20°48′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 2°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 12°19′ (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 sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Ceres square Venus 0.5°
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.7°
- Eros square Sun 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.3°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Ceres trine Mercury 2.1°
- Eros square Saturn 2.1°
Bert’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn
2. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Bert’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
More people like Bert
Other composers
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- Mstislav Rostropovich1927
- Eddie Snyder1919
- Jerry Bock1928
- Morton Gould1913
- Riz Ortolani1926
Born in Germany
- Henry KissingerAmerican politician and diplomat and geopolitical advisor, served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977
- Alexander GrothendieckFrench mathematician
- Jack SteinbergerGerman-American physicist, Nobel laureate
- André PrevinGerman-American conductor, pianist, and composer
- Feodor LynenGerman biochemist, Nobel Laureate
- Ruth Prawer JhabvalaGerman-born British-American author
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- Günter Grass1927
- Naomi Osaka1997
- Loreen1983
- Tim Robbins1958
- John Mayer1977
- Flea1962
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Candy SpellingAmerican socialite, writer, and television personality
- Sterling ShepardAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Kendra WilkinsonAmerican television personality
Other Libra Pig charts
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- Bradley WhitfordAmerican actor (born 1959)
- Jack WagnerAmerican actor and singer (born 1959)
- Ronald LaceyBritish actor
Other Tidal Pioneers
- Grigori PerelmanRussian mathematician (born 1966)
- Bertram BrockhouseCanadian physicist
- Erwin NeherGerman biophysicist
- Ralph SteinmanCanadian immunologist and cell biologist
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Carl Ferdinand CoriCzech Nobel prize laureate and scientist
- Pieter ZeemanDutch physicist
- Victor Francis HessAustrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate
From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
Bert’s cards
Computed from October 16, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q506360 (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 Decca Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Bert Kaempfert at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bert Kaempfert.
Quick answers about Bert Kaempfert’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Bert Kaempfert?
- Bert Kaempfert was a Libra: born October 16, 1923, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Bert Kaempfert's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 16, 1923 birth.
- What was Bert Kaempfert's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Bert Kaempfert's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Bert Kaempfert's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Bert Kaempfert's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
