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Christiaan Eijkman

Christiaan Eijkman (born August 11, 1858, Nijkerk, Netherlands; died 1930), was a Dutch physician. Eijkman served as rector of Utrecht University. Eijkman's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and John Scott Award.

Christiaan Eijkman’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Christiaan Eijkman’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Architect

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Christiaan in the U.S.?

#9895

US rank in 2025

~886

Americans share it since 1880

1968

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Christiaan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Gold

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

What the chart says

Christiaan, according to the stars

Core essence

Christiaan is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Christiaan is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Christiaan 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 Christiaan needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Christiaan wants to be loved

Christiaan wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Christiaan and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Christiaan creates

How Christiaan makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Christiaan creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Christiaan 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. Christiaan 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Christiaan runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Christiaan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Christiaan sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Christiaan

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Christiaan

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

PrivateExpressive
Christiaan

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Christiaan

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

PracticalVisionary
Christiaan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Christiaan

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

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Christiaan Eijkman in 15 seconds

Leo Sun

The room rearranges itself.

Christiaan Eijkman's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 11, 1858, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Earth Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Christiaan Eijkman was born on August 11, 1858, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Christiaan Eijkman's birth date, August 11, 1858, 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 Christiaan’s chart

Christiaan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Christiaan Eijkman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.1° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.6° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.2° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.5° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.4° orbMars faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.9° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.1° orbSun in Leo · 18°27′18°Moon in Virgo · 18°48′18°Mercury in Virgo · 14°43′14°Venus in Virgo · 28°47′28°Mars in Scorpio · 29°13′29°Jupiter in Gemini · 16°17′16°Saturn in Leo · 4°10′Uranus in Gemini · 3°07′Neptune in Pisces · 24°26′ · retrograde24°Pluto in Taurus · 7°35′ · retrograde

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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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.

  • stableVenussextileMars0.1° to 0.8° orb

    Christiaan’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter1.0° to 2.1° orb

    Christiaan’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus1.0° to 1.1° orb

    Christiaan’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb

    Christiaan’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto3.3° to 3.5° orb

    Christiaan’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus3.7° to 4.1° orb

    Christiaan’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenustrineUranus3.8° to 4.9° orb

    Christiaan’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.8° to 4.9° orb

    Christiaan’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune4.5° to 5.0° orb

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

  • stableMarstrineSaturn4.8° to 5.1° orb

    Christiaan’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Christiaan’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.

  • ChironAquarius 14°40′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Christiaan making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • CeresSagittarius 11°45′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Christiaan is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ErosGemini 28°22′ (moves 0.86° over the day)

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

    Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Christiaan is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.

  • HygieaGemini 27°20′ (moves 0.28° 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 Christiaan needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

  • Black Moon LilithCapricorn 0°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Christiaan is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

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.

  • Eros square Venus 0.4°
  • Hygiea square Venus 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.4°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 1.6°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 2.9°
  • Ceres square Mercury 3.0°

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°).

Christiaan’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. Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. Venus4 pts

    disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Christiaan is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 Christiaan’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.

  • Sun biquintile Neptune 0.0°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.8°

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

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Christiaan’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Architect

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

yang Earth

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

yang Metal

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Fire

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Christiaan Eijkman, 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

Christiaan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107609, 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.

The same Christiaan Eijkman 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 Christiaan Eijkman.

Quick answers about Christiaan Eijkman’s chart

What zodiac sign was Christiaan Eijkman?
Christiaan Eijkman was a Leo: born August 11, 1858, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
What was Christiaan Eijkman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 11, 1858 birth.
What time was Christiaan Eijkman 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 Christiaan Eijkman's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 11, 1858 birth date.
What was Christiaan Eijkman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 11, 1858 birth date.
Where was Christiaan Eijkman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Christiaan Eijkman's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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