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Gerhard Domagk

Gerhard Domagk (born October 30, 1895, Łagów, Poland; died 1964), was a German bacteriologist. Domagk's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Health and Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize.

Gerhard Domagk’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Gerhard Domagk’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

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outside the current top list

~2,429

Americans share it since 1882

1917

its peak year

Gerhard ranked 921st in 1895, the year of this birth, with 7 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Gerhard’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

9

Personality · generous, worldly

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

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

Gerhard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Crimson · Forest

The record

What sets Gerhard apart

Gerhard Domagk took the Emil Fischer Medal in 1937, at 42.

The classrooms behind this chart: Kiel University.

The grave is at Lauheide Forest Cemetery.

Wikipedia's editors put Gerhard Domagk under German pathologists, Academic staff of the University of Greifswald and Medical doctors from the Province of Brandenburg.

The same date carries Dickinson W. Richards. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Kiel University
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1939), Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1956) and Emil Fischer Medal (1937)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Buried at
Lauheide Forest Cemetery
Citizenship
Germany
Languages
German
Wikipedia editions
69

What the chart says

Gerhard, according to the stars

Core essence

Gerhard does not do surface. The core of Gerhard is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Gerhard is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Gerhard wants to be loved

Gerhard 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 Gerhard and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Gerhard creates

How Gerhard makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Gerhard 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: Gerhard is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Gerhard 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Gerhard runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Gerhard's birth date. Working below.

Where Gerhard sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Gerhard

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Gerhard

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Gerhard

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Gerhard

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Gerhard

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Gerhard

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Gerhard Domagk

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Łagów 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 Łagów that night

Computed for 52.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Łagów was Caph, in Cassiopeia, 80.5° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 52.3°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Łagów at all: they sit past the −37.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 93% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Łagów, Poland

The death is recorded at Königsfeld im Schwarzwald, Schwarzwald-Baar District in 1964.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Gerhard Domagk: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Gerhard's chart is

Chart pattern score

65 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet

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

Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Gerhard Domagk's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 30, 1895, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Wood Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Gerhard Domagk was born on October 30, 1895, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Gerhard Domagk's birth date, October 30, 1895, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Gerhard’s chart

Gerhard’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.3° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.6° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.8° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 3.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.3° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 5.3° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 6.2° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 6.4° orbSun in Scorpio · 6°47′☉6°Moon in Aries · 1°06′☽1°Mercury in Libra · 27°12′ · retrograde☿℞27°Venus in Virgo · 24°44′♀24°Mars in Scorpio · 0°33′♂0°Jupiter in Leo · 8°02′♃8°Saturn in Scorpio · 9°37′♄9°Uranus in Scorpio · 19°25′♅19°Neptune in Gemini · 17°39′ · retrograde♆℞17°Pluto in Gemini · 12°23′ · retrograde♇℞12°

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

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.8° to 1.7° orb

    Gerhard’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.6° orb

    Gerhard’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.4° to 3.3° orb

    Gerhard’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.5° to 4.1° orb

  • stableJupitersextilePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars6.1° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.5° to 11.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 1.2° to 13.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 5.6° to 17.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleVenussquareNeptuneorb from 6.8° to 7.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

Gerhard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 18°18′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 10°27′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 16°02′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 17°60′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Neptune 0.3°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.6°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 0.8°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 1.4°
  • Eros square Neptune 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 3.0°

Gerhard’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Gerhard’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mars, Saturn, UranusThree 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.

  • Venus semi-square Saturn 0.1°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
  • Sun biquintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.8°

Born the same day as Gerhard

Dickinson W. Richards was born on October 30, 1895 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 52.3°N, Łagów keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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Gerhard’s cards

Computed from October 30, 1895. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Gerhard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57192 (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.

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The same Gerhard Domagk at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

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Quick answers about Gerhard Domagk’s chart

What zodiac sign was Gerhard Domagk?
Gerhard Domagk was a Scorpio: born October 30, 1895, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Gerhard Domagk's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 30, 1895 birth.
What was Gerhard Domagk's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Gerhard Domagk's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Gerhard Domagk's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Gerhard Domagk's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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