Eric Betzig
Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960, Ann Arbor, United States), aged 66, is an American physicist. Betzig's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research and Newcomb Cleveland Prize.
Eric Betzig’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Eric
Eric Betzig’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Eric in the U.S.?
#273
US rank in 2025
~893,184
Americans share it since 1880
1970
its peak year
The SSA recorded 10,539 American boys and 26 girls named Eric in 1960: 44th among boys and 2,326th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eric’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on C (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Eric’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Eric apart
The William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research came in 1993, when Eric Betzig was 33.
Eric Betzig was taught at California Institute of Technology and Pioneer High School.
The family line: married Na Ji.
Wikipedia files Eric Betzig under Scientists from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Cornell University College of Engineering alumni and Microscopists.
Orlando Bloom (1977) and Liam Hemsworth (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- California Institute of Technology, Pioneer High School and Cornell University College of Engineering
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2014) and William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research (1993)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
What the chart says
Eric, according to the stars
Core essence
Eric is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Eric is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Eric is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Eric needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Eric wants to be loved
Eric wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Eric and watch them fall for you again.
How Eric creates
How Eric makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Eric creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Eric is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Eric is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Computed from Eric's birth date. Working below.
Where Eric sits
Six lines
Eric’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 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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Eric Betzig
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ann Arbor 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 Ann Arbor that night
Computed for 42.28°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkib stood nearest the zenith over Ann Arbor at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.4° above the horizon in Perseus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 108 catalog stars above the horizon.
Ann Arbor sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −47.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Ann Arbor on any night.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 39° down.
How unusual Eric's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →Eric Betzig at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Eric Betzig's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 13, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Pig
Earth PigGenerous to the last coin.
Eric Betzig was born on January 13, 1960, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Eric Betzig's birth date, January 13, 1960, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Eric’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eric Betzig's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- Eric Betzig combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Eric’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Cancer 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
stableJupitertrineUranus1.2° to 1.5° orb
Eric’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb
Eric’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.8° to 4.3° orb
Eric’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.8° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 2.4° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 4.4° to 16.5° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileNeptuneorb from 4.8° to 6.4° depending on birth time
possibleVenustrineUranusorb from 5.9° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Eric’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 25°10′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°27′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 23°26′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 28°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 17°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.0°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.7°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.9°
Eric’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Eric’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 2.4°
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Eric’s cards
Computed from January 13, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eric’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1351105 (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 Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eric Betzig at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Eric Betzig.
Quick answers about Eric Betzig’s chart
- How old is Eric Betzig?
- Eric Betzig is 66 years old, born January 13, 1960 in Ann Arbor, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Eric Betzig?
- Eric Betzig is a Capricorn: born January 13, 1960, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Eric Betzig's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 13, 1960 birth.
- What is Eric Betzig's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Eric Betzig's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Eric Betzig's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Eric Betzig's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
