Emil von Behring
Emil von Behring (born March 15, 1854, Ławice, Poland; died 1917), was a German physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin. Behring's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Order of the Griffon and Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Emil von Behring’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Emil
Emil von Behring’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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, 26 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on E (5) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
9 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green
The record
What sets Emil apart
The Order of the Griffon came in 1895, when Emil von Behring was 41.
The schooling ran through Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The record gives pneumonia as the cause, and Behring-Mausoleum as the resting place.
The family line: married Else von Behring.
Wikipedia files Emil von Behring under People from the Province of Prussia, Academic staff of Marburg University and Tetanus.
Eva Longoria (1975) and Zhores Alferov (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1901), Order of the Griffon (1895) and Officer of the Legion of Honour (1901)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Cause of death
- pneumonia
- Buried at
- Behring-Mausoleum
- Citizenship
- German Reich and Kingdom of Prussia
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 88
What the chart says
Emil, according to the stars
Core essence
Emil feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Emil is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Emil wants to be loved
Emil wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Emil, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Emil creates
How Emil makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Emil creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Emil is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Emil is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Emil channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ławice 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 Ławice that night
Computed for 53.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Ławice was Talitha, in Ursa Major, 83.9° up.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 53.6°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Ławice at all: they sit past the −36.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 24° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Ławice, Poland
The death is recorded at Marburg, Marburg-Biedenkopf in 1917.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Emil von Behring: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Emil's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Pisces · T-square onto Saturn · No Air planets
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Emil von Behring's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 15, 1854, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Emil von Behring was born on March 15, 1854, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Emil von Behring's birth date, March 15, 1854, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Emil’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Emil von Behring's date-only chart is Venus opposition Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Emil von Behring combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Emil’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMarstrinePluto0.3° to 0.7° orb
Emil’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionMars0.4° to 0.5° orb
Emil’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableVenussextilePluto0.9° to 1.1° orb
Emil’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileJupiter2.0° to 2.8° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn2.0° to 2.9° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune3.9° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn4.7° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn5.3° to 5.6° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 2.4° to 14.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Emil’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 20°14′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 0°16′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 27°28′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 10°57′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 0°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Saturn 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.0°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.5°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.9°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.9°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 3.0°
Emil’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Emil’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree 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 onto Saturn · Venus, Mars, SaturnAn 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 biquintile Mars 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.4°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 2.0°
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on March 15
- Eva Longoria1975
- Zhores Alferov1930
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- Allen SteeleAmerican science fiction writer
Other Pisces Tiger charts
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- Phil KnightAmerican billionaire and co-founder of Nike
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Emil’s cards
Computed from March 15, 1854. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Emil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76425 (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 L. Lamarra, Neapel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Emil von Behring.
Quick answers about Emil von Behring’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Emil von Behring?
- Emil von Behring was a Pisces: born March 15, 1854, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Emil von Behring's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 15, 1854 birth.
- What was Emil von Behring's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Emil von Behring's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Emil von Behring's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Emil von Behring's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
