Hendrik Lorentz
Hendrik Lorentz (born July 18, 1853, Arnhem, Netherlands; died 1928), was a Dutch physicist. Lorentz is best remembered for Tauc–Lorentz model, Lorentz ether theory and Lorentz oscillator. Lorentz's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Knight of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
Hendrik Lorentz’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Hendrik
Hendrik Lorentz’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Hendrik in the U.S.?
#2620
US rank in 2025
~1,387
Americans share it since 1917
2020
its peak year
US records hold Hendrik from 1917 onward, though not for 1880 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2020 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hendrik’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on H (8) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hendrik’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
The record
What sets Hendrik apart
Nelson Mandela (1918) and Priyanka Chopra (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Hendrik, according to the stars
Core essence
Hendrik feels the room before entering it. The core of Hendrik 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 Hendrik, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Hendrik wants to be loved
Hendrik 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 Hendrik openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Hendrik creates
How Hendrik makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Hendrik creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Hendrik 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 6 is the nurturer. Hendrik 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Hendrik scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Hendrik's birth date. Working below.
Where Hendrik sits
Six lines
Hendrik’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 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 night
Dedicate a star to Hendrik Lorentz
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Arnhem 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 Arnhem that night
Computed for 51.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Arnhem at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.7° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 52.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Arnhem at all: they sit past the −38.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 96% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
How unusual Hendrik's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Neptune · 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 →The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Hendrik Lorentz's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 18, 1853, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Ox
Water OxSlow, steady, never quits.
Hendrik Lorentz was born on July 18, 1853, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Hendrik Lorentz's birth date, July 18, 1853, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Hendrik’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hendrik Lorentz's date-only chart is Venus square Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Hendrik Lorentz combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Hendrik’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 4° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
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
stableVenussquareUranus0.7° to 1.9° orb
Hendrik’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableUranussextileNeptune1.3° orb
Hendrik’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineJupiter1.4° to 2.7° orb
Hendrik’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.4° to 2.2° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn2.9° to 3.8° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.5° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.6° to 4.1° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 2.7° to 16.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 4.1° to 18.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Hendrik’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 9°12′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 4°19′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 25°26′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 16°01′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.2°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.6°
- Chiron trine Uranus 3.0°
Hendrik’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
in its own sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Hendrik’s chart
T-square onto Neptune · Mars, Jupiter, NeptuneAn 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.
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.0°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.4°
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Hendrik’s cards
Computed from July 18, 1853. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hendrik’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q41688 (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.
Portrait by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hendrik Lorentz at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hendrik Lorentz.
Quick answers about Hendrik Lorentz’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hendrik Lorentz?
- Hendrik Lorentz was a Cancer: born July 18, 1853, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Hendrik Lorentz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1853 birth.
- What was Hendrik Lorentz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Hendrik Lorentz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Hendrik Lorentz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hendrik Lorentz's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
