Erwin Neher
Erwin Neher (born March 20, 1944, Landsberg am Lech, Germany), aged 82, is a German biophysicist. Neher's honours include Fulbright Scholarship, Ralph W. Gerard Prize and Ernst Hellmut Vits Award.
Erwin Neher’s zodiac sign is Pisces or Aries (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Erwin
How common is the name Erwin in the U.S.?
#2402
US rank in 2025
~21,262
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Erwin ranked 481st in 1944, the year of this birth, with 158 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Erwin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Erwin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1944, 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 Erwin apart
Erwin Neher took the Adolf Fick Prize in 1984, at 40.
University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Göttingen shaped the training.
The family line: raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Erwin Neher under People from Landsberg am Lech, Electrophysiologists and Lower Saxony State Prize recipients.
Chester Bennington (1976) and Fred Rogers (1928) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Göttingen and Technical University of Munich
- Awards
- Adolf Fick Prize (1984), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1987) and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1991)
- Citizenship
- Germany and Nazi Germany
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
What the chart says
Erwin, according to the stars
How Erwin wants to be loved
Erwin 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 Erwin, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Erwin creates
How Erwin makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Erwin creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Erwin is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Erwin is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Erwin scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Erwin's birth date. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Landsberg am Lech on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Landsberg am Lech that night
Computed for 48.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Talitha stood nearest the zenith over Landsberg am Lech at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.8° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 48.1°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −41.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Landsberg am Lech on any night.
The Moon, 19% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 24° below the horizon.
How unusual Erwin's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Venus · T-square onto Mars · No Earth 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 or Aries Sun
Erwin Neher was born on a day when the Sun moved from Pisces into Aries. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Erwin Neher was born on March 20, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Erwin Neher's birth date, March 20, 1944, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Erwin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Erwin Neher's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Earth.
Erwin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.7° orb
Erwin’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableVenussquareUranus0.7° to 1.9° orb
Erwin’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableUranussextilePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb
Erwin’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.1° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.2° to 4.1° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto3.3° to 5.3° orb
stableSunsquareMars3.4° to 3.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.4° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Erwin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 11°20′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 29°23′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 19°12′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 11°06′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 3°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Sun 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.6°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 1.3°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.9°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.9°
Erwin’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Erwin’s chart
Yod onto Venus · Neptune, Pluto, VenusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.5°
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Erwin’s cards
Computed from March 20, 1944. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Erwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q77126 (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 Molgen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Erwin Neher at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Erwin Neher.
Quick answers about Erwin Neher’s chart
- How old is Erwin Neher?
- Erwin Neher is 82 years old, born March 20, 1944 in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Erwin Neher?
- Erwin Neher was born on a day when the Sun moved from Pisces into Aries. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is Erwin Neher's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 20, 1944 birth.
- What is Erwin Neher's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Erwin Neher's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Erwin Neher's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Erwin Neher's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
