Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945, New York City, United States), aged 81, is an American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science. Hofstadter is best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach. Hofstadter's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, National Book Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Douglas Hofstadter’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rooster, with 
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Douglas Hofstadter’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
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Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Douglas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
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What the chart says
Douglas, according to the stars
Core essence
Douglas is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Douglas is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Douglas wants to be loved
Douglas wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Douglas creates
How Douglas makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Douglas creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Douglas is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Douglas is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Douglas goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Douglas's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Douglas sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Douglas Hofstadter's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 15, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Douglas Hofstadter was born on February 15, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Douglas Hofstadter's birth date, February 15, 1945, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Douglas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Douglas Hofstadter's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Douglas Hofstadter combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Douglas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Douglas Hofstadter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableUranussextilePluto0.4° orb
Douglas’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.9° orb
Douglas’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb
Douglas’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.1° orb
Douglas’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.2° to 4.0° orb
Douglas’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileUranus3.3° to 4.2° orb
Douglas’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenustrinePluto3.7° to 4.6° orb
Douglas’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineNeptune4.7° to 5.5° orb
Douglas’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineJupiter4.9° to 5.7° orb
Douglas’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.4° to 7.3° orb
Douglas’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Douglas’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 2°35′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Douglas is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresScorpio 7°03′ (moves 0.12° 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. Douglas is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosGemini 0°47′ (moves 0.84° 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. Douglas is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 20°18′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Douglas is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 10°30′ (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 Douglas 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.
- Eros trine Mars 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.6°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.6°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 2.3°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.9°
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°).
Douglas’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. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
5 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Douglas is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Douglas’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 Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 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.
- Venus quintile Mars 0.1°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Douglas Hofstadter, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Douglas’s family here
One relative of Douglas Hofstadter also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Douglas’s cards
Every card is computed from February 15, 1945, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Douglas Hofstadter, 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
Douglas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q319308, 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 Maurizio Codogno, it:Utente:.mau., CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Douglas Hofstadter at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Douglas Hofstadter’s chart
- How old is Douglas Hofstadter?
- Douglas Hofstadter is 81 years old, born February 15, 1945 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Douglas Hofstadter?
- Douglas Hofstadter is an Aquarius: born February 15, 1945, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster.
- What is Douglas Hofstadter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 15, 1945 birth.
- What time was Douglas Hofstadter 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 Douglas Hofstadter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the February 15, 1945 birth date.
- What is Douglas Hofstadter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 15, 1945 birth date.
- Where is Douglas Hofstadter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Douglas Hofstadter's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
