Emil Theodor Kocher
Emil Theodor Kocher (born August 25, 1841, Bern, Switzerland; died 1917), was a Surgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Kocher's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Emil Theodor Kocher’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Emil
Emil Theodor Kocher’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Emil in the U.S.?
#1269
US rank in 2025
~33,230
Americans share it since 1880
1917
its peak year
US name records start in 1880, 39 years after this birth. In that first year Emil ranked 113th, with 119 American boys registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Emil’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on E (5) and closes on L (3).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Emil’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Emil apart
Tim Burton (1958) and Claudia Schiffer (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Emil, according to the stars
Core essence
Emil 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 Emil is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Emil is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Emil needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Emil wants to be loved
Emil 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. Emil gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Emil creates
How Emil makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Emil creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Emil is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Emil is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Emil runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Emil's birth date. Working below.
Where Emil sits
Six lines
Emil’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Emil Theodor Kocher
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bern on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Bern that night
Computed for 46.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bern was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 84.5° up.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 46.9°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −43.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bern on any night.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon up and 69% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Emil's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Grand trine
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
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Emil Theodor Kocher's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1841, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Ox
Metal OxStubborn, and usually right.
Emil Theodor Kocher was born on August 25, 1841, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Emil Theodor Kocher's birth date, August 25, 1841, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Emil’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Emil Theodor Kocher's date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Emil Theodor Kocher combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Emil’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoontrinePluto0.0° to 6.8° orb
Emil’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineUranus0.6° to 1.2° orb
Emil’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquarePluto1.2° to 2.3° orb
Emil’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.8° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto2.0° to 3.7° orb
stableVenustrineMars3.0° to 3.5° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.6° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Emil’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 27°28′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 27°05′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 19°43′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 18°22′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 0°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.6°
- Eros square Venus 0.7°
- Eros opposition Pluto 1.0°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.4°
Emil’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Emil’s chart
Grand trine · Venus, Mars, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 2.0°
More people like Emil
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- Philippe SternSwiss entrepreneur
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More charts like Emil’s
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- Sofia RichieAmerican model and media personality (born 1998)
- Guy RitchieEnglish filmmaker (born 1968)
- Danny RamirezAmerican actor
Born in Ox years
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- Stephen BonsalAmerican diplomat
- Walter LippmannAmerican journalist and political commentator
Also born on August 25
- Tim Burton1958
- Claudia Schiffer1970
- Blake Lively1987
- Alexander Skarsgård1976
- Salif Keita1949
- Rachel Bilson1981
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Kathy WakileAmerican television personality
- Vanna WhiteAmerican model and game show hostess
- Maitland WardAmerican actress and model
Other Virgo Ox charts
- Hugh David PolitzerAmerican physicist
- Charles Brenton HugginsAmerican physiologist
- Stanford MooreAmerican biochemist
- Charles G. Dawesvice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929
Other Gilded Healers
- Noa EssengueFrench basketball player (born 2006)
- Isaac JonesAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Dailyn SwainAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
- Dean Wadebasketball player (1996-)
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- JuJu WatkinsAmerican basketball player
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Emil’s cards
Computed from August 25, 1841. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Emil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q115478 (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 User Magnus Manske on en.wikipedia; Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Emil Theodor Kocher at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Emil Theodor Kocher.
Quick answers about Emil Theodor Kocher’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Emil Theodor Kocher?
- Emil Theodor Kocher was a Virgo: born August 25, 1841, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Emil Theodor Kocher's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1841 birth.
- What was Emil Theodor Kocher's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Emil Theodor Kocher's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Emil Theodor Kocher's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Emil Theodor Kocher's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
