Eduard Buchner
Eduard Buchner (born May 20, 1860, Munich, Germany; died 1917), was a German chemist (1907 Nobel Prize). Buchner's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Liebig Medal.
Eduard Buchner’s zodiac sign was Taurus or Gemini (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Eduard
How common is the name Eduard in the U.S.?
#3147
US rank in 2025
~1,885
Americans share it since 1902
2006
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Eduard falls under that line for 1880. Its peak came in 2006, and 1,885 Americans have carried it since 1902.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eduard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on E (5) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Eduard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Silver
The record
What sets Eduard apart
Cher (1946) and José Mujica (1935) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Eduard, according to the stars
How Eduard wants to be loved
Eduard wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Eduard gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Eduard creates
How Eduard makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Eduard builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Eduard is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Eduard is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Eduard does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Eduard's birth date. Working below.
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Dedicate a star to Eduard Buchner
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Munich on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Munich that night
Computed for 48.14°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Munich at 9 p.m. that evening: Alioth of Ursa Major, within 8.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
Munich sits at 48.1°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −41.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Munich on any night.
Sun 10° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
How unusual Eduard's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Taurus · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Taurus or Gemini Sun
Eduard Buchner was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Eduard Buchner was born on May 20, 1860, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Eduard Buchner's birth date, May 20, 1860, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Eduard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eduard Buchner's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
Eduard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMoontrineMars0.0° to 6.6° orb
Eduard’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.2° to 1.1° orb
Eduard’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto1.8° to 3.5° orb
Eduard’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.8° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.9° to 3.8° orb
stableSuntrineMars3.3° to 3.9° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter7.2° to 7.9° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Eduard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°37′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 10°25′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 26°31′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 14°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 12°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.1°
- Eros trine Mars 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.9°
- Chiron square Sun 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.1°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.4°
Eduard’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
in its own sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Eduard’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.1°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
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Famous people with Life Path 4
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From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Eduard’s cards
Computed from May 20, 1860. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eduard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q43917 (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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eduard Buchner at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Eduard Buchner.
Quick answers about Eduard Buchner’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Eduard Buchner?
- Eduard Buchner was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Eduard Buchner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 20, 1860 birth.
- What was Eduard Buchner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Eduard Buchner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Eduard Buchner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Eduard Buchner's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
