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, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Your match with Heike
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.?
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outside the current top list
~134
Americans share it since 1961
1966
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Heike falls under that line for 1880. Its peak came in 1966, and 134 Americans have carried it since 1961.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Heike’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Heike’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Heike apart
Kwame Nkrumah (1909) and Stephen King (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Heike sits
Six lines
Heike’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Groningen 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 Groningen that night
Computed for 53.22°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Groningen at 9 p.m. that evening: Alderamin of Cepheus, within 8.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Groningen sits at 53.2°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −36.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Groningen on any night.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 81% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 26° down.
How unusual Heike's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mars · 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Heike’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Heike Kamerlingh Onnes' date-only chart is Venus opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Heike’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMarssquarePluto2.7° to 3.4° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussquareMars3.0° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.3° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.6° to 7.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 7°22′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 22°37′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 24°14′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 7°25′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 11°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 2.9°
Heike’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Heike’s chart
T-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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Heike’s cards
Computed from September 21, 1853. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Heike’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q62891 (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.
The same Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.







