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Duncan Haldane

Duncan Haldane (born September 14, 1951, London, United Kingdom), aged 75, is a Professor of physics at Princeton University. Haldane's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Duncan Haldane’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Duncan Haldane’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

#1124

US rank in 2025

~21,230

Americans share it since 1880

1997

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Duncan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia

Lavender · Lilac · Silver

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

What the chart says

Duncan, according to the stars

Core essence

Duncan notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Duncan is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Duncan wants to be loved

Duncan 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 Duncan and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Duncan creates

How Duncan makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Duncan creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Duncan is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Duncan is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Duncan fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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

Where Duncan sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Duncan

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Duncan

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

PrivateExpressive
Duncan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Duncan

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Duncan

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Duncan

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Duncan Haldane

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

Duncan’s birth-night reference starFawarisblue-white · CygnusFawaris, in Cygnus. A blue-white star, 83.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Fawaris →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 12° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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.

Duncan Haldane in 15 seconds

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Duncan Haldane's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 14, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Metal Rabbit

Three steps ahead, no fuss.

Duncan Haldane was born on September 14, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Duncan Haldane's birth date, September 14, 1951, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Duncan’s chart

Duncan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Duncan Haldane, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.1° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 2.5° orbMars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.3° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 3.6° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.8° orbSun in Virgo · 20°49′☉20°Moon in Pisces · 6°53′☽6°Mercury in Virgo · 3°15′☿3°Venus in Virgo · 4°21′ · retrograde♀℞4°Mars in Leo · 17°12′♂17°Jupiter in Aries · 11°33′ · retrograde♃℞11°Saturn in Libra · 3°38′♄3°Uranus in Cancer · 13°25′♅13°Neptune in Libra · 18°13′♆18°Pluto in Leo · 20°28′♇20°

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.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.5° to 1.6° orb

    Duncan’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarssextileNeptune0.7° to 1.3° orb

    Duncan’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus1.8° to 1.9° orb

    Duncan’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° orb

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

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.0° to 3.6° orb

    Duncan’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.8° orb

    Duncan’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter5.3° to 6.0° orb

    Duncan’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.6° to 6.7° orb

    Duncan’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 13.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 7.4° to 20.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Duncan’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.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 26°56′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Duncan building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 7°09′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Duncan is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aries 20°03′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Duncan is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 13°14′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Duncan needing solitude to reset.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 8°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Duncan guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

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.

  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.2°
  • Eros trine Pluto 0.4°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 1.8°
  • Ceres opposition Venus 2.8°
  • Eros trine Mars 2.8°

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°).

Duncan’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Duncan is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Duncan’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, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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-square Neptune 0.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
  • Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 1.1°
  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 1.4°
  • Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.8°

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

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Duncan’s cards

Every card is computed from September 14, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Duncan Haldane, 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

Duncan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1002250, 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 Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Duncan Haldane at Wikipedia and phy.princeton.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 Duncan Haldane.

Quick answers about Duncan Haldane’s chart

How old is Duncan Haldane?
Duncan Haldane is 75 years old, born September 14, 1951 in London, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Duncan Haldane?
Duncan Haldane is a Virgo: born September 14, 1951, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit.
What is Duncan Haldane's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 14, 1951 birth.
What time was Duncan Haldane 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 Duncan Haldane's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 14, 1951 birth date.
What is Duncan Haldane's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 14, 1951 birth date.
Where is Duncan Haldane's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Duncan Haldane's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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