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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (born September 21, 1853, Groningen, Netherlands; died 1926), was a Dutch physicist, Nobel prize winner. Onnes is best remembered for superconductivity. Onnes's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Rumford Medal and Matteucci Medal.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

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

outside the current top list

~134

Americans share it since 1880

1966

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Heike’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

2 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

North

Season

winter

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink

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What the chart says

Heike, according to the stars

Core essence

Heike notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Heike is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Heike is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Heike needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Heike wants to be loved

Heike wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Heike even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Heike creates

How Heike makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Heike creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Heike is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Heike is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

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

Where Heike sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Heike

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Heike

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

PrivateExpressive
Heike

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Heike

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

PracticalVisionary
Heike

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Heike

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at a glance

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 21, 1853, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Water Ox

Slow, steady, never quits.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was born on September 21, 1853, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

Life Path 2

Better with someone at their back.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's birth date, September 21, 1853, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.

What stands out in Heike’s chart

Heike’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.2° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.9° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.5° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.1° orbMoon fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.2° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 3.2° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.4° orbSun in Virgo · 28°22′28°Moon in Taurus · 15°19′15°Mercury in Virgo · 21°17′21°Venus in Scorpio · 2°33′Mars in Cancer · 29°18′29°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 17°07′17°Saturn in Gemini · 1°46′ · retrogradeUranus in Taurus · 12°05′ · retrograde12°Neptune in Pisces · 11°53′ · retrograde11°Pluto in Taurus · 2°22′ · retrograde

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.

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Placements

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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.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Heike’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableUranussextileNeptune0.2° orb

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

  • stableSunsextileMars0.7° to 1.1° orb

    Heike’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn2.2° to 2.8° orb

    Heike’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableMarssquarePluto2.7° to 3.4° orb

    Heike’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn2.9° to 3.9° orb

    Heike’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussquareMars3.0° to 3.6° orb

    Heike’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter3.3° to 5.0° orb

    Heike’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.2° to 5.3° orb

    Heike’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury6.6° to 7.5° orb

    Heike’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

Heike’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.

  • ChironCapricorn 7°22′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Heike is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

  • CeresScorpio 22°37′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Heike is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

  • ErosVirgo 24°14′ (moves 0.87° over the day)

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

    Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Heike is read as slow to start and exact once started.

  • HygieaLeo 7°25′ (moves 0.30° 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 Heike at their best with something to be proud of.

  • Black Moon LilithGemini 11°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Heike that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.5°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 1.3°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 2.9°

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°).

Heike’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. Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Venus4 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. Mars4 pts

    4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Heike is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Heike’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.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Venus, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.4°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 0.8°
  • Jupiter biquintile Uranus 1.0°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.3°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Heike’s cards

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Judgement

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The Gilded Healer

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

yin Water

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yin Metal

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Metal

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, 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

Heike’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q62891, 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.

The same Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at Wikipedia 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.

Quick answers about Heike Kamerlingh Onnes’s chart

What zodiac sign was Heike Kamerlingh Onnes?
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Virgo: born September 21, 1853, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox.
What was Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 21, 1853 birth.
What time was Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 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 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the September 21, 1853 birth date.
What was Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 21, 1853 birth date.
Where was Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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