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Douglas Osheroff

Douglas Osheroff (born August 1, 1945, Aberdeen, United States), aged 81, is an American physicist. Osheroff's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, MacArthur Fellows Program and Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Douglas Osheroff’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Douglas Osheroff’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Scholar

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

9

Soul Urge · meaning

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on D (4) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

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

1 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern

Coral · Gold · Forest

The record

What sets Douglas apart

Georges Charpak (1924) and Yves Saint Laurent (1936) 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 warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Douglas 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, Douglas is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Douglas needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Douglas wants to be loved

Douglas 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 Douglas like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Douglas creates

How Douglas makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Douglas 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: 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 1 is the pioneer. Douglas is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Douglas leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Douglas scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Douglas

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Douglas

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Douglas

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Douglas

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

PracticalVisionary
Douglas

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Douglas

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 Douglas Osheroff

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

Douglas’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 78.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 16.8° 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 Aberdeen that night

Computed for 46.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Aberdeen at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.5° above the horizon in Draco.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.

At 47.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Nothing below −43.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Aberdeen on any night.

Sun 2° below the horizon, Moon down and 36% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Douglas's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · No retrogrades at all

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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The quick version

Leo Sun

Pride is the engine.

Douglas Osheroff's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 1, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Wood Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Douglas Osheroff was born on August 1, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Douglas Osheroff's birth date, August 1, 1945, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Douglas’s chart

Douglas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.7° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.5° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.2° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 2.6° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.7° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.4° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.9° orbSun in Leo · 9°08′☉9°Moon in Taurus · 20°24′☽20°Mercury in Virgo · 3°46′☿3°Venus in Gemini · 27°01′♀27°Mars in Gemini · 6°25′♂6°Jupiter in Virgo · 25°32′♃25°Saturn in Cancer · 17°42′♄17°Uranus in Gemini · 16°19′♅16°Neptune in Libra · 4°15′♆4°Pluto in Leo · 9°50′♇9°

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

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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

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto0.2° to 1.2° orb

    Douglas’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter1.0° to 2.0° orb

    Douglas’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune1.8° to 2.5° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareMars2.5° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars2.6° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto3.1° to 3.8° orb

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 3.5° to 17.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileNeptuneorb from 4.4° to 5.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 4.7° to 17.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 6.5° to 20.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 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.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 1°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 2°39′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 20°36′ (moves 0.67° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 12°44′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 29°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Mercury 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.1°
  • Eros square Saturn 2.9°
  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.9°

Douglas’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

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

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Douglas’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.1°
  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.4°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°

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Douglas’s cards

Computed from August 1, 1945. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Scholar

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Douglas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q206405 (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 Douglas Osheroff at Wikipedia and physics.stanford.edu.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Douglas Osheroff.

Quick answers about Douglas Osheroff’s chart

How old is Douglas Osheroff?
Douglas Osheroff is 81 years old, born August 1, 1945 in Aberdeen, United States.
What zodiac sign is Douglas Osheroff?
Douglas Osheroff is a Leo: born August 1, 1945, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Douglas Osheroff's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 1, 1945 birth.
What is Douglas Osheroff's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Douglas Osheroff's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Douglas Osheroff's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Douglas Osheroff's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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