Gerd Binnig
Gerd Binnig (born July 20, 1947, Frankfurt, Germany), aged 79, is a German physicist (born 1947). Binnig's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and Bavarian Order of Merit.
Gerd Binnig’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Pig, with 
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Gerd Binnig’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
Gerd’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 5 · 8
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
Gerd, according to the stars
Core essence
Gerd feels the room before entering it. The core of Gerd 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 Gerd, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Gerd wants to be loved
Gerd wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Gerd gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Gerd creates
How Gerd makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Gerd 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: Gerd is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Gerd is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Gerd scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Gerd's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gerd sits
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gerd Binnig in 15 seconds
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Gerd Binnig's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 20, 1947, 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 Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Gerd Binnig was born on July 20, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Gerd Binnig's birth date, July 20, 1947, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Gerd’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gerd Binnig's date-only chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- Gerd Binnig combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Gerd’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Gerd Binnig, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.3° to 0.7° orb
Gerd’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextilePluto0.7° to 1.3° orb
Gerd’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb
Gerd’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
Gerd’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineJupiter2.6° to 3.8° orb
Gerd’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 4.6° orb
Gerd’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.9° to 3.4° orb
Gerd’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
Gerd’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineNeptune4.9° to 5.6° orb
Gerd’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquarePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
Gerd’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableVenussquareNeptune5.6° to 6.8° orb
Gerd’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Gerd’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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 2°37′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Gerd carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresTaurus 3°17′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Gerd is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosSagittarius 3°45′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Gerd attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaGemini 16°11′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Gerd needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 19°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Gerd is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 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°).
Gerd’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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Gerd is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Gerd’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.
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gerd Binnig, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Gerd
Carlos Santana was born on July 20, 1947 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Gerd’s cards
Every card is computed from July 20, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Gerd Binnig, 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
Gerd’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76766, 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 The original uploader was Stefan Kühn at German Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gerd Binnig at Wikipedia.
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 Gerd Binnig.
Quick answers about Gerd Binnig’s chart
- How old is Gerd Binnig?
- Gerd Binnig is 79 years old, born July 20, 1947 in Frankfurt, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Gerd Binnig?
- Gerd Binnig is a Cancer: born July 20, 1947, 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 Pig.
- What is Gerd Binnig's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 20, 1947 birth.
- What time was Gerd Binnig 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 Gerd Binnig's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 20, 1947 birth date.
- What is Gerd Binnig's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 20, 1947 birth date.
- Where is Gerd Binnig's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gerd Binnig's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
