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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Gerd
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.
What Gerd’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
5
Soul Urge · freedom
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on G (7) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gerd’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 Gerd apart
The Gustav Hertz Prize came in 1983, when Gerd Binnig was 36.
Study took Gerd Binnig to Goethe University Frankfurt and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
On Wikipedia the categories read Goethe University Frankfurt alumni, Scientists from Frankfurt and IBM Fellows.
Carlos Santana shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Goethe University Frankfurt and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1986), Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1998) and Gustav Hertz Prize (1983)
- Citizenship
- Germany and allied-occupied Germany
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 74
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. Working below.
Where Gerd sits
Six lines
Gerd’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 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.
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 Gerd Binnig
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Frankfurt on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Frankfurt that night
Computed for 50.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Frankfurt at 9 p.m. that evening: Edasich of Draco, within 9.0° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 50.1°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −39.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Frankfurt on any night.
The Moon, 10% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -3° below the horizon.
How unusual Gerd's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · 1 unaspected planet · A bowl chart
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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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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Leo or Virgo 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
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
stableVenustrineJupiter2.6° to 3.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.9° to 4.6° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.9° to 3.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune4.9° to 5.6° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune5.6° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 2°37′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 3°17′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 3°45′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 16°11′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 19°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.7°
Gerd’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Gerd’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Born the same day as Gerd
Carlos Santana was born on July 20, 1947 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 50.1°N, Frankfurt keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Gerd’s cards
Computed from July 20, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gerd’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76766 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Gerd Binnig's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gerd Binnig's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
