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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, Chinese zodiac is 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

In 1951, 138 American boys were registered Duncan — 591st on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Duncan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

11

Soul Urge · insight

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Duncan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1951, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Duncan apart

The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize came in 1993, when Duncan Haldane was 42.

Duncan Haldane was taught at Christ's College and University of Cambridge.

On Wikipedia the categories read British people of Slovenian descent, Fellows of the Institute of Physics and People educated at St Paul's School, London.

Leo XIV (1955) and Sam Neill (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Christ's College and University of Cambridge
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (2016), Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1993) and ICTP Dirac Medal (2012)
Citizenship
United Kingdom and Slovenia
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
66

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. Working below.

Where Duncan sits

Six lines

Duncan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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

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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over London at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.2° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.

How unusual Duncan's chart is

Chart pattern score

69 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Virgo · 1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Uranus

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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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.

What Virgo means →

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.

What the Rabbit means →

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.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Duncan’s chart

Duncan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.0° to 3.6° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.8° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter5.3° to 6.0° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.6° to 6.7° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Duncan’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Duncan’s chart

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

  • 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°

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Duncan’s cards

Computed from September 14, 1951. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Duncan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1002250 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Duncan Haldane's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Duncan Haldane's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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