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Bertram Brockhouse

Bertram Brockhouse (born July 15, 1918, Lethbridge, Canada; died 2003), was a Canadian physicist. Brockhouse's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Guggenheim Fellowship and Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

Bertram Brockhouse’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Bertram Brockhouse’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 Bertram in the U.S.?

#8353

US rank in 2025

~7,955

Americans share it since 1880

1923

its peak year

In 1918, 197 American boys were registered Bertram — 417th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Bertram’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on B (2) and closes on M (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

Bertram’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Citrine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia

Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta

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 1918, 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 Bertram apart

The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize came in 1962, when Bertram Brockhouse was 44.

Bertram Brockhouse was taught at University of British Columbia and University of Toronto.

On Wikipedia the categories read Academic staff of McMaster University, University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science alumni and Scientists from Lethbridge.

Mario Kempes (1954) and Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of British Columbia and University of Toronto
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (1994), Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1962) and Henry Marshall Tory Medal (1973)
Citizenship
Canada
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
64

What the chart says

Bertram, according to the stars

Core essence

Bertram feels the room before entering it. The core of Bertram 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 Bertram, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Bertram cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Bertram needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Bertram wants to be loved

Bertram wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Bertram like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Bertram creates

How Bertram makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Bertram creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Bertram is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Bertram 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Bertram fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Bertram's birth date. Working below.

Where Bertram sits

Six lines

Bertram’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Bertram

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Bertram

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

PrivateExpressive
Bertram

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Bertram

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Bertram

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Bertram

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Bertram Brockhouse

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lethbridge on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Bertram’s birth-night reference starEdasichwarm orange · DracoEdasich, in Draco. A warm orange star, 79.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Edasich →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 11.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Lethbridge that night

Computed for 49.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Edasich stood nearest the zenith over Lethbridge at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.9° above the horizon in Draco.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.

At 49.7°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −40.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 49% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat -4° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Lethbridge, Canada

The death is recorded at Hamilton, Ontario in 2003.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Bertram Brockhouse: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Bertram's chart is

Chart pattern score

43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Cancer · No Earth planets · 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.

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Cancer Sun

Remembers what you said in March.

Bertram Brockhouse's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 15, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Earth Horse

Happiest halfway there.

Bertram Brockhouse was born on July 15, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Bertram Brockhouse's birth date, July 15, 1918, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Bertram’s chart

Bertram’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.5° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.1° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 2.5° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.2° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.5° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.6° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.6° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.8° orbSun in Cancer · 22°25′☉22°Moon in Libra · 16°46′☽16°Mercury in Leo · 11°31′☿11°Venus in Gemini · 19°17′♀19°Mars in Libra · 11°03′♂11°Jupiter in Cancer · 0°33′♃0°Saturn in Leo · 14°41′♄14°Uranus in Aquarius · 27°01′ · retrograde♅℞27°Neptune in Leo · 6°17′♆6°Pluto in Cancer · 5°29′♇5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Bertram’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.4° to 4.0° orb

    Bertram’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.4° to 3.8° orb

    Bertram’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus3.4° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 6.1° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.8° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto5.3° to 5.8° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.2° to 11.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.2° to 10.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Bertram’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 3°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 28°30′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 26°53′ (moves 0.88° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 22°02′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Uranus 0.1°
  • Hygiea square Sun 0.4°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 1.5°
  • Chiron square Pluto 2.0°
  • Ceres opposition Jupiter 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 2.5°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 2.8°
  • Chiron square Jupiter 2.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 3.0°

Bertram’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Mercury, Saturn, Neptune

Configurations in Bertram’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Cancer · Sun, Jupiter, 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.8°
  • Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.9°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 1.4°

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Bertram’s cards

Computed from July 15, 1918. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Pioneer

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Bertram’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192689 (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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Bertram Brockhouse at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bertram Brockhouse.

Quick answers about Bertram Brockhouse’s chart

What zodiac sign was Bertram Brockhouse?
Bertram Brockhouse was a Cancer: born July 15, 1918, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What was Bertram Brockhouse's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 15, 1918 birth.
What was Bertram Brockhouse's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Bertram Brockhouse's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Bertram Brockhouse's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Bertram Brockhouse's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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