AsterNymAsterNym
Portrait of Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Gustav Ludwig Hertz (born July 22, 1887, Hamburg, Germany; died 1975), was a German physicist. Hertz is best remembered for Franck–Hertz experiment. Hertz's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of the Red Banner of Labour and Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

Gustav Ludwig Hertz’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

How compatible are you with Gustav Ludwig Hertz?

Your birthday, just below, gives your match percentage with Gustav. Under a minute.

Your AsterNym Match

?%Your score is waiting.

Two details and you have your number with Gustav. Under a minute, and it is real astrology, not a quiz.

Free · no account · stays on this device. Add a birth time later for the full chart.

Your result includes:

  • · Your compatibility percentage
  • · What attracts you to each other
  • · What you would bring to the match
  • · Where you might clash
  • · Whether you share lucky numbers, colours, stones or seasons

Gustav Ludwig Hertz’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Strategist

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#3686

US rank in 2025

~4,267

Americans share it since 1880

1917

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Gustav’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 5

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Gustav, according to the stars

Core essence

Gustav feels the room before entering it. The core of Gustav 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 Gustav, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Gustav needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Gustav needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Gustav wants to be loved

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

How Gustav creates

How Gustav makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Gustav creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Gustav 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 8 is the powerhouse. Gustav is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Gustav 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 Gustav's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Gustav sits

Six lines. Tap where you sit on each.

Gustav’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Gustav

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Gustav

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Gustav

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Gustav

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Gustav

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Gustav

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 Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hamburg on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Gustav’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 83.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 10.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Gustav Ludwig Hertz at a glance

Cancer Sun

Guards the people, guards the past.

Gustav Ludwig Hertz's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 22, 1887, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Fire Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

Gustav Ludwig Hertz was born on July 22, 1887, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Gustav Ludwig Hertz's birth date, July 22, 1887, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Gustav’s chart

Gustav’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Gustav Ludwig Hertz, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.3° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.7° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.3° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.1° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.2° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.7° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.1° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.2° orbSun in Cancer · 29°17′☉29°Moon in Leo · 20°30′☽20°Mercury in Leo · 10°16′ · retrograde☿℞10°Venus in Virgo · 14°31′♀14°Mars in Cancer · 6°42′♂6°Jupiter in Libra · 27°13′♃27°Saturn in Cancer · 26°33′♄26°Uranus in Libra · 8°56′♅8°Neptune in Taurus · 29°36′♆29°Pluto in Gemini · 4°42′♇4°

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.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

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.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Gustav’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn0.7° orb

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

  • stableMercurysextileUranus1.1° to 1.6° orb

    Gustav’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter1.6° to 2.5° orb

    Gustav’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableMarssquareUranus1.9° to 2.6° orb

    Gustav’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.3° to 3.1° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb

    Gustav’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableUranustrinePluto4.2° orb

    Gustav’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.1° orb

    Gustav’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 14.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 2.1° to 16.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 2.7° to 17.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Gustav’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.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 28°18′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Gustav turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • ⚳ CeresAries 22°09′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Gustav looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 3°22′ (moves 0.50° 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. Gustav is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 9°35′ (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 Gustav at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 7°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Gustav carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

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.

  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.6°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.9°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.3°

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°).

Gustav’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. 1. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Venus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Gustav is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.

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 Gustav’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Cancer · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree 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 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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Saturn quintile Uranus 0.4°
  • Mercury quintile Neptune 1.3°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.5°
  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 2.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gustav Ludwig Hertz, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

More people like Gustav

Other physicists

Born in Germany

More charts like Gustav’s

Fellow Cancer suns

All about Cancer →

Born in Pig years

Year of the Pig →

Also born on July 22

Fellow Yang Earth day masters

What a Day Master is →

Other Cancer Pig charts

Other Steadfast Strategists

The Steadfast Strategist explained →

Famous people with Life Path 8

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Dragon babies: the real demographics behind the belief · Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year

Gustav’s cards

Every card is computed from July 22, 1887, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Star

Tap to flip

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

Tap to flip

Western zodiac

Cancer

Tap to flip

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Tap to flip

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

Tap to flip

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Gustav Ludwig Hertz, 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

Gustav’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57070, 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 Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Gustav Ludwig Hertz 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Gustav Ludwig Hertz.

Quick answers about Gustav Ludwig Hertz’s chart

What zodiac sign was Gustav Ludwig Hertz?
Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a Cancer: born July 22, 1887, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig.
What was Gustav Ludwig Hertz's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 22, 1887 birth.
What time was Gustav Ludwig Hertz 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 was Gustav Ludwig Hertz's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 22, 1887 birth date.
What was Gustav Ludwig Hertz's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 22, 1887 birth date.
Where was Gustav Ludwig Hertz's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Gustav Ludwig Hertz's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

More charts to explore