Gerrit Komrij
Gerrit Komrij (born March 30, 1944, Winterswijk, Netherlands; died 2012), was a Dutch writer. Komrij is best remembered for Humeuren en temperamenten. Komrij's honours include P.C. Hooft Award, Boudewijn Büch award and Cestoda price.
Gerrit Komrij’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Wood Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Gerrit
Gerrit Komrij’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Gerrit in the U.S.?
#5689
US rank in 2025
~2,877
Americans share it since 1881
1916
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1944, Gerrit came 2,719th, carried by 8 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gerrit’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on G (7) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gerrit’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Botanical green
The record
What sets Gerrit apart
Céline Dion (1968) and Ingvar Kamprad (1926) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Gerrit, according to the stars
Core essence
Gerrit leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Gerrit is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Gerrit wants to be loved
Gerrit wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Gerrit, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Gerrit creates
How Gerrit makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Gerrit creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Gerrit is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Gerrit is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Gerrit does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Gerrit's birth date. Working below.
Where Gerrit sits
Six lines
Gerrit’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Gerrit Komrij
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Winterswijk 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 Winterswijk that night
Computed for 51.97°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Winterswijk at 9 p.m. that evening: Talitha of Ursa Major, within 3.8° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
Winterswijk sits at 52.0°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 43% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.
How unusual Gerrit's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Earth planets · A leaning bowl
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.
Score your own chart →Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Gerrit Komrij's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 30, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Gerrit Komrij was born on March 30, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Gerrit Komrij's birth date, March 30, 1944, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Gerrit’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gerrit Komrij's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- Gerrit Komrij combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Gerrit’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.3° to 2.1° orb
Gerrit’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableUranussextilePluto0.7° orb
Gerrit’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareNeptune1.4° to 1.9° orb
Gerrit’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrinePluto2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.9° to 5.9° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.1° to 5.2° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune6.4° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Gerrit’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 10°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 1°54′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 24°46′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 10°09′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 4°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Neptune 0.8°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.2°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.5°
Gerrit’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Gerrit’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.
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.4°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.9°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.5°
More people like Gerrit
Other writers
- Patrick Modiano1945
- James Tate1943
- Elizabeth Frank1945
- Jil Sander1943
- Kay Ryan1945
- Marilynne Robinson1943
Born in Netherlands
- Doutzen KroesDutch fashion model
- Paul J. CrutzenDutch climatologist
- Lieke MarsmanDutch poet
- Martinus J. G. VeltmanDutch theoretical physicist
- Marten de RoonDutch association football player (born 1991)
- Edsger W. DijkstraDutch computer scientist
More charts like Gerrit’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Mstislav RostropovichSoviet and Russian cellist and conductor
- Herbie HancockAmerican jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)
- Andrew Lloyd WebberBritish theatre composer (born 1948)
Born in Monkey years
- EmiSunshineAmerican musician
- Anna ShcherbakovaRussian figure skater (born 2004)
- Peyton Elizabeth LeeAmerican actress
Also born on March 30
- Céline Dion1968
- Ingvar Kamprad1926
- Samantha Stosur1984
- Johnny Galecki1975
- Anitta1993
- DJ AM1973
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Felipe MassaBrazilian race car driver
- Sean CombsAmerican rapper and producer
- Barry MarshallNobel Prize winner, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology
Other Aries Monkey charts
- Sadio ManéSenegalese footballer
- Omar SharifEgyptian actor
- Diana RossAmerican singer and actress
- Steve BallmerAmerican businessman, former chief executive officer of Microsoft
Other Tidal Diplomats
- Brandon SklenarAmerican actor
- Frank LampardEnglish association football player and manager
- Cheslin KolbeSouth African rugby player
- Suryakumar YadavIndian cricketer
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Greta GerwigAmerican actress and filmmaker (born 1983)
- Maya HawkeAmerican actress
- Chris HarrisonAmerican television personality/game show host
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Gerrit’s cards
Computed from March 30, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gerrit’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q202489 (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 Anna Ietswaart, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gerrit Komrij at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gerrit Komrij.
Quick answers about Gerrit Komrij’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gerrit Komrij?
- Gerrit Komrij was an Aries: born March 30, 1944, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Gerrit Komrij's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 30, 1944 birth.
- What was Gerrit Komrij's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gerrit Komrij's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Gerrit Komrij's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gerrit Komrij's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
