Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings (born July 28, 1954, Buer, Germany), aged 72, is a German mathematician. Faltings's honours include Fields medal, Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Abel Prize.
Gerd Faltings’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Horse, with 
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Gerd Faltings’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
Gerd’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Gerd, according to the stars
Core essence
Gerd is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Gerd 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, Gerd is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Gerd needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Gerd wants to be loved
Gerd 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 Gerd and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Gerd creates
How Gerd makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Gerd creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Gerd is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Gerd is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Gerd has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Gerd's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gerd sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Gerd Faltings's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 28, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Gerd Faltings was born on July 28, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Gerd Faltings's birth date, July 28, 1954, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Gerd’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gerd Faltings' date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Gerd Faltings combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Gerd’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Gerd Faltings, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Cancer 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.
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.1° to 7.4° orb
Gerd’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.2° to 1.0° orb
Gerd’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussquareNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
Gerd’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
Gerd’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.3° to 2.3° orb
Gerd’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrinePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb
Gerd’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.0° orb
Gerd’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.1° to 3.0° orb
Gerd’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.2° orb
Gerd’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.3° to 14.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 25°17′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Gerd is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresLibra 14°50′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Gerd is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosScorpio 24°55′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Gerd is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaLeo 21°09′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Gerd at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 4°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Gerd is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 square Sun 0.0°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.3°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.8°
- Eros square Pluto 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 1.8°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 2.9°
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. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☽ Moon6 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Gerd 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 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.
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.
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.9°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gerd Faltings, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Gerd’s cards
Every card is computed from July 28, 1954, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Gerd Faltings, 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 Q77137, 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 Renate Schmid, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gerd Faltings 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.
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Quick answers about Gerd Faltings’s chart
- How old is Gerd Faltings?
- Gerd Faltings is 72 years old, born July 28, 1954 in Buer, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Gerd Faltings?
- Gerd Faltings is a Leo: born July 28, 1954, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse.
- What is Gerd Faltings's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 28, 1954 birth.
- What time was Gerd Faltings 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 Faltings's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 28, 1954 birth date.
- What is Gerd Faltings's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 28, 1954 birth date.
- Where is Gerd Faltings's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gerd Faltings's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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