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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Douglas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

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

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Douglas sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. 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.

Wood Rooster

Punctual, precise, proud.

Douglas Osheroff was born on August 1, 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 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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Douglas’s chart

Douglas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Douglas Osheroff, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

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

  • stableSunsextileMars2.6° to 2.9° orb

    Douglas’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMarssextilePluto3.1° to 3.8° orb

    Douglas’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • 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

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.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 1°04′ (moves 0.11° 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 2°39′ (moves 0.26° 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.

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

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Douglas is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

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

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Douglas is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 29°08′ (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.

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

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Douglas 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 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.

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.

  • 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°

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

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Douglas’s cards

Every card is computed from August 1, 1945, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Scholar

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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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

No birth time is on public record for Douglas Osheroff, 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 Q206405, 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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Douglas Osheroff at Wikipedia and physics.stanford.edu.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster.
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 time was Douglas Osheroff 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 Osheroff's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the August 1, 1945 birth date.
What is Douglas Osheroff's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 1, 1945 birth date.
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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