Herbert A. Hauptman
Herbert A. Hauptman (born February 14, 1917, New York City, United States; died 2011), was an American mathematician. Hauptman's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics and Jacob F. Schoellkopf Medal.
Herbert A. Hauptman’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Herbert A. Hauptman’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Herbert in the U.S.?
#2656
US rank in 2025
~229,383
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
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Herbert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Herbert, according to the stars
Core essence
Herbert is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Herbert is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Herbert 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 Herbert 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 Herbert wants to be loved
Herbert 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 Herbert be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Herbert creates
How Herbert 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. Herbert 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: Herbert 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 7 is the seeker. Herbert 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Herbert goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Herbert's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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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Herbert A. Hauptman at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Herbert A. Hauptman's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 14, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
Herbert A. Hauptman was born on February 14, 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 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Herbert A. Hauptman's birth date, February 14, 1917, 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 Herbert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Herbert A. Hauptman's date-only chart is Mercury square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Herbert A. Hauptman combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Herbert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Herbert A. Hauptman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.3° to 1.3° orb
Herbert’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.5° to 2.1° orb
Herbert’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextilePluto2.1° to 2.3° orb
Herbert’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.5° to 2.7° orb
Herbert’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.8° to 4.0° orb
Herbert’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.0° to 3.2° orb
Herbert’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMarstrinePluto3.6° to 4.4° orb
Herbert’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.9° to 5.1° orb
Herbert’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.2° to 5.5° orb
Herbert’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionUranus5.0° to 5.9° orb
Herbert’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.2° to 5.4° orb
Herbert’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.9° orb
Herbert’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Herbert’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 24°03′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
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 Herbert absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 18°52′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Herbert caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosScorpio 17°41′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Herbert is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 13°43′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Herbert is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 11°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Herbert is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.0°
- Eros square Uranus 2.3°
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°).
Herbert’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. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
5 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Herbert is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Herbert’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.
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Venus, Mars, UranusThree 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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn 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.
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.4°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Herbert A. Hauptman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Herbert’s cards
Every card is computed from February 14, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Herbert A. Hauptman, 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
Herbert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107422, 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.
Portrait by Dave Pape, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Herbert A. Hauptman at Wikipedia.
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 Herbert A. Hauptman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Herbert A. Hauptman?
- Herbert A. Hauptman was an Aquarius: born February 14, 1917, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was Herbert A. Hauptman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 14, 1917 birth.
- What time was Herbert A. Hauptman 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 Herbert A. Hauptman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the February 14, 1917 birth date.
- What was Herbert A. Hauptman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 14, 1917 birth date.
- Where was Herbert A. Hauptman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Herbert A. Hauptman's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
