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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Pig, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Eric’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Eric Betzig, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Cancer 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.
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
Eric’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.0° to 5.2° orb
Eric’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrinePluto5.8° to 6.6° orb
Eric’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
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
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 25°10′ (moves 0.06° 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 Eric making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°27′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Eric caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCapricorn 23°26′ (moves 0.60° 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. Eric is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 28°55′ (moves 0.11° 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 Eric at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 17°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Eric that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.0°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.7°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.9°
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°).
Eric’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. ♄ 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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Eric is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Eric’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 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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Eric Betzig, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Eric’s cards
Every card is computed from January 13, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Eric Betzig, 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
Eric’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1351105, 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- 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 time was Eric Betzig 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 is Eric Betzig's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 13, 1960 birth date.
- What is Eric Betzig's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 13, 1960 birth date.
- 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.
