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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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

Your match with Gerard

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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 1886

1956

its peak year

The SSA recorded 884 American boys named Gerard in 1946: 197th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Gerard’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

9

Soul Urge · meaning

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on G (7) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

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

Gerard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Gerard apart

Hernán Crespo (1975) and Susan Wojcicki (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Gerard sits

Six lines

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

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 →

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

The sky over Den Helder that night

Computed for 52.96°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Den Helder at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

At 53.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −37.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 46% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat -8° below the horizon.

How unusual Gerard's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · No retrogrades at all

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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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.

What Cancer means →

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.

What the Dog means →

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.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Gerard’s chart

Gerard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune2.4° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars3.9° to 4.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter4.9° to 5.8° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Gerard’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Gerard’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 semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 0.7°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°

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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong

Gerard’s cards

Computed from July 5, 1946. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Pioneer

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Gerard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q184592 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Gerard 't Hooft's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Gerard 't Hooft's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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