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Friedrich Merz

Friedrich Merz (born November 11, 1955, Brilon, Germany), aged 71, is a German politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Merz has held office as Chairman of the CDU/CSU Bundestag fraction and leader of the Christian Democratic Union. Merz's honours include Time 100 and Orden wider den tierischen Ernst.

Friedrich Merz’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Friedrich Merz’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Friedrich in the U.S.?

#3788

US rank in 2025

~652

Americans share it since 1914

2025

its peak year

In 1955, 9 American boys were registered Friedrich — 2,839th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Friedrich’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

1

Soul Urge · independence

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on F (6) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Friedrich’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Gold · Crimson · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, 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 Friedrich apart

The Orden wider den tierischen Ernst came in 2006, when Friedrich Merz was 51.

Study took Friedrich Merz to Gymnasium Petrinum and University of Marburg.

The family line: born to Paula Merz and Joachim Merz, married Charlotte Merz and raised 3 children.

On Wikipedia the categories read Members of the Bundestag 1998 to 2002, BlackRock people and Neoliberalism.

Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) and Demi Moore (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Gymnasium Petrinum, University of Marburg and University of Bonn
Awards
Time 100 (2025), Orden wider den tierischen Ernst (2006) and Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class (2026)
Citizenship
Germany
Languages
German
Wikipedia editions
100

What the chart says

Friedrich, according to the stars

Core essence

Friedrich does not do surface. The core of Friedrich is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Friedrich is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Friedrich cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Friedrich needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Friedrich wants to be loved

Friedrich 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 Friedrich and watch them fall for you again.

How Friedrich creates

How Friedrich 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. Friedrich 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: Friedrich is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Friedrich is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Friedrich fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Friedrich's birth date. Working below.

Where Friedrich sits

Six lines

Friedrich’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Friedrich

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Friedrich

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Friedrich

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Friedrich

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Friedrich

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Friedrich Merz

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brilon on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Friedrich’s birth-night reference starCaphyellow-white · CassiopeiaCaph, in Cassiopeia. A yellow-white star, 82.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Caph →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 39.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Brilon that night

Computed for 51.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Brilon at 9 p.m. that evening: Caph of Cassiopeia, within 7.7° of the exact zenith.

Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Brilon sits at 51.4°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −38.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brilon on any night.

Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon down and 7% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Friedrich's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · 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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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Friedrich Merz's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 11, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Friedrich Merz was born on November 11, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 6

Everyone's person. Never off duty.

Friedrich Merz's birth date, November 11, 1955, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Friedrich’s chart

Friedrich’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.7° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.9° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.6° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.6° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.4° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4.9° orbMoon fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 4.9° orbSun in Scorpio · 18°17′☉18°Moon in Libra · 13°43′☽13°Mercury in Scorpio · 4°57′☿4°Venus in Sagittarius · 6°42′♀6°Mars in Libra · 18°37′♂18°Jupiter in Leo · 29°25′♃29°Saturn in Scorpio · 23°09′♄23°Uranus in Leo · 2°20′ · retrograde♅℞2°Neptune in Libra · 28°43′♆28°Pluto in Leo · 28°31′♇28°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb

    Friedrich’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune0.7° orb

    Friedrich’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto0.9° to 1.0° orb

    Friedrich’s growth and depths act as one.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus1.8° to 3.4° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune3.6° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus3.7° to 5.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.4° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto5.3° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.5° to 7.0° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn6.3° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 1.3° to 12.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Friedrich’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 0°45′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 23°35′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 18°05′ (moves 0.85° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 27°59′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 27°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Saturn 0.4°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 0.5°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.2°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.6°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.1°

Friedrich’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Friedrich’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · 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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.8°

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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan

Friedrich’s cards

Computed from November 11, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Friedrich’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q566257 (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 Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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 Friedrich Merz.

Quick answers about Friedrich Merz’s chart

How old is Friedrich Merz?
Friedrich Merz is 71 years old, born November 11, 1955 in Brilon, Germany.
What zodiac sign is Friedrich Merz?
Friedrich Merz is a Scorpio: born November 11, 1955, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Friedrich Merz's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 11, 1955 birth.
How tall is Friedrich Merz?
Friedrich Merz is 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Friedrich Merz's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Friedrich Merz's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Friedrich Merz's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Friedrich Merz's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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