Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel (born May 21, 1936, Niegosławice, Poland; died 2018), was a German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize). Blobel's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Humboldt Prize and Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.
Günter Blobel’s zodiac sign was Taurus or Gemini (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Günter
What Günter’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
1
Soul Urge · independence
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on G (7) and closes on R (9).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Günter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Scarlet
The record
What sets Günter apart
Andrei Sakharov (1921) and The Notorious B.I.G. (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Günter, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Günter processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Günter needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Günter wants to be loved
Günter wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Günter is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Günter creates
How Günter makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Günter 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: Günter is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Günter 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Günter scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Günter's birth date. Working below.
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The sky over Niegosławice that night
Computed for 51.59°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Niegosławice at 9 p.m. that evening: Mizar of Ursa Major, within 4.9° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
Niegosławice sits at 51.6°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 −38.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, was still up; the Sun sat 8° below the horizon.
How unusual Günter's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Gemini · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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Taurus or Gemini Sun
Günter Blobel was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Günter Blobel was born on May 21, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Günter Blobel's birth date, May 21, 1936, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Günter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Günter Blobel's date-only chart is Mercury square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
Günter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Gemini 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
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
Günter’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.8° to 2.0° orb
Günter’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareSaturn0.9° to 1.1° orb
Günter’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune5.0° to 6.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars5.3° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.0° to 7.1° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 1.4° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextilePlutoorb from 4.2° to 5.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Günter’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 15°29′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 21°21′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 13°59′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 3°60′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 14°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Neptune 0.0°
- Ceres trine Saturn 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.9°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.5°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.5°
- Ceres opposition Venus 1.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.7°
Günter’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Günter’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.1°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
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Born in Poland
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More charts like Günter’s
Born in Rat years
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Also born on May 21
- Andrei Sakharov1921
- The Notorious B.I.G.1972
- Lisa Edelstein1966
- Sarah Ramos1991
- Taylor Sheridan1970
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Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Melanie GriffithAmerican actress
- Bernadette PetersAmerican actress and singer (born 1948)
- J. Carrol NaishAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Hiroshi AmanoJapanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
- Jimmy Carterpresident of the United States from 1977 to 1981
- Carol GreiderAmerican molecular biologist
From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Günter’s cards
Computed from May 21, 1936. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Günter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q60108 (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 Masur, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Günter Blobel at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Günter Blobel’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Günter Blobel?
- Günter Blobel was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Günter Blobel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 21, 1936 birth.
- What was Günter Blobel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Günter Blobel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Günter Blobel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Günter Blobel's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
