Hans Bethe
Hans Bethe (born July 2, 1906, Strasbourg, France, 20:45; died 2005), was a German-American nuclear physicist. Bethe is best remembered for Bethe strings, Mott–Bethe formula and Bethe–Feynman formula. Bethe's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science and Henry Draper Medal.
Hans Bethe’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Horse, with 
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Hans Bethe’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Hans in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~15,682
Americans share it since 1880
1970
its peak year
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Hans’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Hans, according to the stars
Core essence
Hans feels the room before entering it. The core of Hans 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 Hans, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Hans feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Hans needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Hans wants to be loved
Hans wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Hans openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Hans creates
How Hans makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Hans creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Hans 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Hans is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Hans 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 Hans's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Hans sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Hans Bethe's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time. 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 Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Hans Bethe was born on July 2, 1906, which falls in a Fire 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 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Hans Bethe's birth date, July 2, 1906, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Hans’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Hans Bethe's timed chart: Sun in the 7th house, Mars in the 7th house, Uranus in the 1st house and Neptune in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Hans Bethe's timed chart is Sun conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Hans Bethe combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Hans’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 0.1° orb
Hans’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MarstrineSaturnapplying · 1.1° orb
Hans’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
JupiterconjunctionPlutoseparating · 1.2° orb
Hans’s growth and depths act as one.
SunoppositionUranusseparating · 3.6° orb
Hans’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
MarsconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 3.8° orb
Hans’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
UranusoppositionNeptuneseparating · 3.8° orb
Hans’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
SunconjunctionMarsapplying · 3.9° orb
Hans’s core identity and drive act as one.
SaturntrineNeptuneapplying · 4.9° orb
Hans’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SuntrineSaturnapplying · 5.0° orb
Hans’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MarsoppositionUranusseparating · 7.5° orb
Hans’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Hans’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 11°39′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Hans making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°04′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Hans is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLeo 10°35′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Hans loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 19°16′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Hans is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 28°50′ · House 5
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Hans is read as immovable on those points.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Ceres opposition Moon 1.6°
- Ceres trine Ascendant 2.2°
- Chiron opposition Venus 2.8°
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°).
Hans’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Hans 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 Hans’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree 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 quincunx Jupiter 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
- Moon quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Moon 1.6°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
Hans’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Pisces, house 3 | Uranus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Capricorn, house 1 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Cancer, house 7 | Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Cancer, house 7 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Leo, house 8 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Leo, house 8 | Jupiter, Pluto | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Scorpio, house 11 | Sun, Mars, Neptune | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Cancer, house 7 | Mercury, Venus | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Leo, house 8 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Leo, house 8 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Gemini, house 6 | Moon | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Gemini, house 6 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Hans’s cards
Every card is computed from July 2, 1906, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Hans’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q155794, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hans Bethe at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Hans Bethe’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hans Bethe?
- Hans Bethe was a Cancer: born July 2, 1906, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse.
- What was Hans Bethe's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 2, 1906 birth.
- What time was Hans Bethe born?
- 20:45 local time in Strasbourg, France, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Hans Bethe's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 20:45 birth time in Strasbourg, France (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Hans Bethe's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the July 2, 1906 birth date.
- What was Hans Bethe's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 11°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 2, 1906 birth time.
- Where was Hans Bethe's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 28°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hans Bethe's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Venus; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
