Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Böll (born December 21, 1917, Cologne, Germany, 08:00; died 1985), was a German writer. Böll is best remembered for House without Guardians, Group Portrait with Lady and Women in a river landscape. A novel in dialogues and soliloquies. Böll's honours include Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Nobel Prize in Literature and Carl von Ossietzky Medal.
Heinrich Böll’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.How compatible are you with Heinrich Böll?
Your birthday, just below, gives your match percentage with Heinrich. Under a minute.
Your AsterNym Match
?%Your score is waiting.
Two details and you have your number with Heinrich. Under a minute, and it is real astrology, not a quiz.
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
Heinrich Böll’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Heinrich in the U.S.?
#4768
US rank in 2025
~526
Americans share it since 1880
2024
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Heinrich’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Heinrich, according to the stars
Core essence
Heinrich is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Heinrich is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Heinrich is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Heinrich needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Heinrich wants to be loved
Heinrich wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Heinrich be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Heinrich creates
How Heinrich 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. Heinrich 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: Heinrich is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Heinrich is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Heinrich channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Heinrich's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Heinrich sits
Six lines. Tap where you sit on each.
Heinrich’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Heinrich Böll
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cologne on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Cologne at 08:00, the birth time on Heinrich Böll’s AA-rated record. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Heinrich Böll in 15 seconds
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Heinrich Böll's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Heinrich Böll was born on December 21, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Heinrich Böll's birth date, December 21, 1917, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Heinrich’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Heinrich Böll's timed chart: Sun in the 1st house, Moon in the 4th house, Mars in the 10th house and Jupiter in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Heinrich Böll's timed chart is Venus opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Heinrich Böll combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Heinrich’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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
VenusoppositionSaturnseparating · 0.3° orb
Heinrich’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SunsquareMoonseparating · 0.5° orb
Heinrich’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
JupitersextileNeptuneseparating · 3.0° orb
Heinrich’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoonsextileJupiterapplying · 4.3° orb
Heinrich’s feelings open doors for their growth.
MercurytrineMarsapplying · 4.9° orb
Heinrich’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoonsquarePlutoapplying · 5.3° orb
Heinrich’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunsquareMarsseparating · 5.6° orb
Heinrich’s core identity grinds against their drive.
SunoppositionPlutoapplying · 5.7° orb
Heinrich’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MoonoppositionMarsseparating · 6.1° orb
Heinrich’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
VenusconjunctionUranusapplying · 6.7° orb
Heinrich’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
SaturnoppositionUranusseparating · 6.9° orb
Heinrich’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
SaturnconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 7.3° orb
Heinrich’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenusoppositionNeptuneseparating · 7.6° orb
Heinrich’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Heinrich’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 25°30′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Heinrich absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 3°22′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Heinrich is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAquarius 1°41′ · House 3
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Heinrich is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 17°11′ · House 3
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. Heinrich is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 15°34′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Heinrich exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 0.2°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.2°
- Eros sextile Moon 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 3.0°
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°).
Heinrich’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♃ Jupiter11.5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Heinrich is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Heinrich’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
T-square onto Moon · Sun, Pluto, MoonAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Sun · Moon, Mars, SunAn 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
- Moon semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Moon quintile Mercury 1.1°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.6°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 2.4°
Heinrich’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 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Gemini, house 7 | Sun | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Capricorn | Saturn in Leo, house 9 | Mercury | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aquarius, house 3 | Venus, Uranus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Pisces | Neptune in Leo, house 9 | Moon | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 10 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 3 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 2 | Jupiter | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 4 | Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Leo | Sun in Sagittarius, house 1 | Saturn, Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 2 | Mars | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 3 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 8 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12More people like Heinrich
Other writers
Born in Germany
- Inge LandgutGerman actress
- Feodor LynenGerman biochemist, Nobel Laureate
- Henry KissingerAmerican politician and diplomat and geopolitical advisor, served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977
- Bernard KatzGerman-British biophysicist
- Carl DueringGerman actor
- Polykarp KuschGerman-American physicist
More charts like Heinrich’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- David MametAmerican playwright, filmmaker and author (born 1947)
- Gordon S. WoodAmerican history teacher, university and college faculty member, historian
- James WrightAmerican poet, born 1927
Born in Snake years
- Jessie BuckleyIrish actress, singer and songwriter
- Bernardo BertolucciItalian film director and screenwriter
- June AllysonAmerican actress
Also born on December 21
- Emmanuel Macron1977
- Jane Fonda1937
- Frank Zappa1940
- Samuel L. Jackson1948
- Madelyn Cline1997
- Cooper Flagg2006
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Frederick Jackson TurnerAmerican historian
- Paul ZindelAmerican dramatist and children's writer
- Abe BurrowsAmerican dramatist and playwright
Other Sagittarius Snake charts
- Ossie DavisAmerican actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist
- Berry GordyAmerican record producer, founder of Motown Records
- Facundo PellistriUruguayan association football player
- Omar RekikDutch-Tunisian association football player
Other Radiant Healers
- Lily PhillipsBritish pornographic actress (born 2001)
- Jerry SpringerAmerican television personality and politician
- Rob SchneiderAmerican actor, comedian, and screenwriter
- Courtney StoddenAmerican model, singer, songwriter, reality television personality
Other Sagittarius risings with documented times
- Jill BidenAmerican educator and First Lady of the United States from 2021 to 2025
- Anjelica HustonAmerican actress (born 1951)
- Alicia WittAmerican actress and singer-songwriter (born 1975)
- Anthony AndersonAmerican actor (born 1970)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Dan CaineU.S. Air Force general
- Ziggy MarleyJamaican reggae musician
- Dave MatthewsAmerican singer-songwriter
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Heinrich’s cards
Every card is computed from December 21, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
Tap to flip
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Heinrich’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42747, 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 Hoffmann, Harald, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Heinrich Böll 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Heinrich Böll.
Quick answers about Heinrich Böll’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Heinrich Böll?
- Heinrich Böll was a Sagittarius: born December 21, 1917, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was Heinrich Böll's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 21, 1917 birth.
- What time was Heinrich Böll born?
- 08:00 local time in Cologne, Germany, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Heinrich Böll's rising sign?
- Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 08:00 birth time in Cologne, Germany (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Heinrich Böll's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the December 21, 1917 birth date.
- What was Heinrich Böll's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 21, 1917 birth time.
- Where was Heinrich Böll's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 15°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Heinrich Böll's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (11.5 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Pisces; rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
