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), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Metal Monkey, with 
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How common is the name Eduard in the U.S.?
#3147
US rank in 2025
~1,885
Americans share it since 1880
2006
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Eduard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Eduard Buchner, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Eduard’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.9° to 3.8° orb
Eduard’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineMars3.3° to 3.9° orb
Eduard’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.9° to 4.0° orb
Eduard’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
Eduard’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter7.2° to 7.9° orb
Eduard’s affections and growth act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°37′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Eduard making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 10°25′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Eduard is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosTaurus 26°31′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Eduard wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 14°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Eduard is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 12°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Eduard is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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 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°
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°).
Eduard’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Eduard is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Eduard’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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Eduard Buchner, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Eduard’s cards
Every card is computed from May 20, 1860, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
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
No birth time is on public record for Eduard Buchner, 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
Eduard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q43917, 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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eduard Buchner at Wikipedia.
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.
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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. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey.
- 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 time was Eduard Buchner 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 was Eduard Buchner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the May 20, 1860 birth date.
- What was Eduard Buchner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 20, 1860 birth date.
- 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.
