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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Douglas
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.
How common is the name Douglas in the U.S.?
#807
US rank in 2025
~562,086
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
Douglas ranked 29th among boys and 1,839th among girls in 1945, the year of this birth, with 7,394 American boys and 21 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Douglas’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on D (4) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Douglas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Douglas apart
Megan Thee Stallion (1995) and Miranda July (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Douglas sits
Six lines
Douglas’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 4.5° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 15% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 28° down.
How unusual Douglas's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Saturn
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurysextileVenus3.2° to 4.0° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune4.7° to 5.5° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter4.9° to 5.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.4° to 7.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 2°35′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 7°03′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 0°47′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 20°18′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 10°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Douglas’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Douglas’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Mars 0.1°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 2.0°
Douglas’s family here
One relative of Douglas Hofstadter also has a chart on AsterNym.
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- Megan Thee Stallion1995
- Miranda July1974
- Callum Turner1990
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- Amber Riley1986
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- Richard BorcherdsBritish-American mathematician (born 1959)
- Michel MayorSwiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
- John MottAmerican Methodist and founder of the YMCA
Other Aquarius Rooster charts
- Paul ScofieldBritish actor
- Charles Édouard GuillaumeSwiss physicist
- Hans von Euler-ChelpinSwedish scientist
- Jacques MonodFrench biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate
Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
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- Eva Marie SaintAmerican actress (born 1924)
- Henry FondaAmerican actor
- Jack KlugmanAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Peter GrünbergGerman physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
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- Karl von FrischGerman-Austrian ethologist
From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Douglas’s cards
Computed from February 15, 1945. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Douglas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q319308 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Douglas Hofstadter.
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.
- 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 is Douglas Hofstadter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Douglas Hofstadter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
