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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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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 Social Security Administration public records

Emil’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

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Intimate circleWide network
Emil

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Emil

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Emil

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Emil

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Emil

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Emil

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Emil von Behring in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Feels 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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.

Wood Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

Emil von Behring was born on March 15, 1854, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.

Life Path 9

Carries 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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Emil’s chart

Emil’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Emil von Behring, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Mars · Opposition, 0.5° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.5° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.4° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.4° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.9° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 4.8° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.8° orbSun in Pisces · 24°33′24°Moon in Libra · 3°13′Mercury in Aries · 8°00′ · retrogradeVenus in Pisces · 2°22′ · retrogradeMars in Virgo · 1°54′ · retrogradeJupiter in Capricorn · 22°07′22°Saturn in Taurus · 26°58′26°Uranus in Taurus · 9°57′Neptune in Pisces · 13°50′13°Pluto in Taurus · 1°24′

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.

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Square 90°
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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.

  • 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

    Emil’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.0° to 2.9° orb

    Emil’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableUranussextileNeptune3.9° orb

    Emil’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn4.7° to 5.1° orb

    Emil’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn4.8° to 4.9° orb

    Emil’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.3° to 5.6° orb

    Emil’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • 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

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.

  • ChironCapricorn 20°14′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Emil is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

  • CeresAquarius 0°16′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Emil is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ErosCapricorn 27°28′ (moves 0.54° over the day)

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Emil is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • HygieaLeo 10°57′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Emil at their best with something to be proud of.

  • Black Moon LilithCancer 0°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Emil guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Emil’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. 1. Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. Venus6 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. Saturn5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Emil is read as tuned to what is not said.

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 Emil’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, the shape it makesStellium 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, the shape it makesT-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 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.

  • Mercury biquintile Mars 0.1°
  • Sun semi-square Uranus 0.4°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 2.0°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Emil von Behring, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Emil’s cards

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The Moon

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The Radiant Seeker

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Western zodiac

Pisces

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

yang Wood

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yin Fire

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Fire

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Emil von Behring, 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

Emil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76425, 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 L. Lamarra, Neapel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Emil von Behring 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Tiger.
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 time was Emil von Behring 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 Emil von Behring's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the March 15, 1854 birth date.
What was Emil von Behring's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 15, 1854 birth date.
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.

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