Gabriel Lippmann
Gabriel Lippmann (born August 16, 1845, Bonnevoie, Luxembourg; died 1921), was a Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French. Lippmann served as president of the French Academy of Sciences and president. Lippmann's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Gabriel Lippmann’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Gabriel
Gabriel Lippmann’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Gabriel in the U.S.?
#37
US rank in 2025
~402,627
Americans share it since 1880
2008
its peak year
US name records start in 1880, 35 years after this birth. In that first year Gabriel ranked 472nd, with 15 American boys registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gabriel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on G (7) and closes on L (3).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gabriel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
The record
What sets Gabriel apart
Madonna (1958) and James Cameron (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Gabriel, according to the stars
Core essence
Gabriel is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Gabriel is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Gabriel needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Gabriel needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Gabriel wants to be loved
Gabriel wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Gabriel and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Gabriel creates
How Gabriel makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Gabriel 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: Gabriel is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Gabriel 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Gabriel goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Gabriel's birth date. Working below.
Where Gabriel sits
Six lines
Gabriel’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Gabriel Lippmann
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bonnevoie on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Bonnevoie that night
Computed for 49.59°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Eltanin stood nearest the zenith over Bonnevoie at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.2° above the horizon in Draco.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 49.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −40.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 15° below the horizon.
How unusual Gabriel's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · No Water planets · Mars retrograde
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 →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Gabriel Lippmann's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 16, 1845, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Gabriel Lippmann was born on August 16, 1845, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Gabriel Lippmann's birth date, August 16, 1845, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Gabriel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gabriel Lippmann's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gabriel Lippmann combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Gabriel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
Gabriel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb
Gabriel’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrinePluto1.0° to 2.0° orb
Gabriel’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextilePluto1.0° to 1.3° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.3° to 1.6° orb
stableSunoppositionMars2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.3° to 2.6° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.4° to 4.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 6.1° to 21.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Gabriel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 19°33′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 29°11′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 2°08′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 9°47′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 11°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.2°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.0°
Gabriel’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Gabriel’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.3°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.2°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°
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- Madonna1958
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Gabriel’s cards
Computed from August 16, 1845. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
6 · Guardian☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gabriel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q133232 (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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gabriel Lippmann at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gabriel Lippmann.
Quick answers about Gabriel Lippmann’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gabriel Lippmann?
- Gabriel Lippmann was a Leo: born August 16, 1845, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Gabriel Lippmann's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 16, 1845 birth.
- What was Gabriel Lippmann's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gabriel Lippmann's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Gabriel Lippmann's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gabriel Lippmann's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
