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Gerard 't Hooft

Gerard 't Hooft (born July 5, 1946, Den Helder, Netherlands), aged 80, is a Dutch theoretical physicist. Hooft's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

Gerard 't Hooft’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Gerard 't Hooft’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Pioneer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#1713

US rank in 2025

~58,932

Americans share it since 1880

1956

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Gerard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

5 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Gerard, according to the stars

Core essence

Gerard feels the room before entering it. The core of Gerard is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Gerard, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

How Gerard wants to be loved

Gerard wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Gerard openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Gerard creates

How Gerard makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Gerard 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: Gerard is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Gerard 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Gerard channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Gerard's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Gerard sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Gerard

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Gerard

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Gerard

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Gerard

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Gerard

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Gerard

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 Gerard 't Hooft

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

Gerard’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 84.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 16.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Cancer Sun

Moody, and loyal past reason.

Gerard 't Hooft's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 5, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Fire Dog

Guards the gate all night.

Gerard 't Hooft was born on July 5, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Gerard 't Hooft's birth date, July 5, 1946, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Gerard’s chart

Gerard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Gerard 't Hooft, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 1° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.2° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.7° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.2° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.4° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.9° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.6° orbSun in Cancer · 12°46′☉12°Moon in Libra · 3°31′☽3°Mercury in Leo · 8°49′☿8°Venus in Leo · 20°15′♀20°Mars in Virgo · 8°41′♂8°Jupiter in Libra · 18°05′♃18°Saturn in Cancer · 26°22′♄26°Uranus in Gemini · 19°06′♅19°Neptune in Libra · 5°56′♆5°Pluto in Leo · 10°33′♇10°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableVenussextileUranus0.6° to 1.7° orb

    Gerard’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus1.0° orb

    Gerard’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto1.3° to 2.2° orb

    Gerard’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter1.6° to 2.7° orb

    Gerard’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune2.4° to 3.4° orb

    Gerard’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableSunsextileMars3.9° to 4.3° orb

    Gerard’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareJupiter4.9° to 5.8° orb

    Gerard’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.8° to 13.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.9° to 13.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Gerard’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.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 15°23′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Gerard is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 10°58′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Gerard is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 21°33′ (moves 0.75° over the day)

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

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Gerard wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 26°06′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Gerard feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 6°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Gerard leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

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.

  • Hygiea square Saturn 0.3°
  • Ceres opposition Pluto 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Eros square Venus 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.9°
  • Ceres opposition Mercury 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.1°
  • Chiron square Sun 2.6°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.7°

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°).

Gerard’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. 1. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Saturn

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Gerard is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 Gerard’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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 semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 0.7°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gerard 't Hooft, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Gerard’s cards

Every card is computed from July 5, 1946, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Gerard 't Hooft, 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

Gerard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q184592, 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 Wammes Waggel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Gerard 't Hooft at Wikipedia and webspace.science.uu.nl.

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 Gerard 't Hooft.

Quick answers about Gerard 't Hooft’s chart

How old is Gerard 't Hooft?
Gerard 't Hooft is 80 years old, born July 5, 1946 in Den Helder, Netherlands.
What zodiac sign is Gerard 't Hooft?
Gerard 't Hooft is a Cancer: born July 5, 1946, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog.
What is Gerard 't Hooft's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 5, 1946 birth.
What time was Gerard 't Hooft 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 Gerard 't Hooft's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the July 5, 1946 birth date.
What is Gerard 't Hooft's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 5, 1946 birth date.
Where is Gerard 't Hooft's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Gerard 't Hooft's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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