Herbert Grönemeyer
Herbert Grönemeyer (born April 12, 1956, Göttingen, Germany), aged 70, is a German singer, musician and actor (born 1956). Grönemeyer is best known for Mensch. Grönemeyer's honours include German Radio Award, Amadeus Austrian Music Awards and Echo Pop Award for the Best National Rock/Pop Male Artist.
Herbert Grönemeyer’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Monkey, with 
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Herbert Grönemeyer’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Herbert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Herbert, according to the stars
Core essence
Herbert leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Herbert is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Herbert 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 Herbert needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Herbert wants to be loved
Herbert wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Herbert like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Herbert creates
How Herbert makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Herbert creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Herbert is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Herbert is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Herbert leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Herbert does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Herbert's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Herbert sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires first. Thinks later.
Herbert Grönemeyer's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 12, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Herbert Grönemeyer was born on April 12, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Herbert Grönemeyer's birth date, April 12, 1956, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Herbert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Herbert Grönemeyer's date-only chart is Mars opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Herbert Grönemeyer combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Herbert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Herbert Grönemeyer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° 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.
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.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.3° orb
Herbert’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Herbert’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.2° to 2.3° orb
Herbert’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareMars0.4° to 1.8° orb
Herbert’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.5° to 1.5° orb
Herbert’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.5° to 1.2° orb
Herbert’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquareNeptune1.0° orb
Herbert’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrinePluto2.2° to 4.3° orb
Herbert’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb
Herbert’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrinePluto3.2° to 4.2° orb
Herbert’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileSaturn3.3° to 4.0° orb
Herbert’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturntrineUranus3.8° orb
Herbert’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 11°04′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Herbert making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresPisces 20°30′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Herbert is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosCapricorn 28°34′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Herbert is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 24°53′ (moves 0.23° 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 LilithCapricorn 14°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Herbert is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Eros conjunction Mars 0.2°
- Eros opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Eros square Neptune 0.7°
- Eros square Mercury 0.9°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.4°
- Chiron trine Venus 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°).
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. ♂ Mars10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun8 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 6 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Herbert is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
Grand cross · Mercury, Neptune, Mars, UranusTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.- Grand cross · Mars, Uranus, Sun, NeptuneTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
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 semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Herbert Grönemeyer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Herbert
Andy Garcia was born on April 12, 1956 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Herbert’s cards
Every card is computed from April 12, 1956, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Herbert Grönemeyer, 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 Q275247, 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 Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 Grönemeyer’s chart
- How old is Herbert Grönemeyer?
- Herbert Grönemeyer is 70 years old, born April 12, 1956 in Göttingen, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Herbert Grönemeyer?
- Herbert Grönemeyer is an Aries: born April 12, 1956, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Monkey.
- What is Herbert Grönemeyer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 12, 1956 birth.
- What time was Herbert Grönemeyer 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 is Herbert Grönemeyer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the April 12, 1956 birth date.
- What is Herbert Grönemeyer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 12, 1956 birth date.
- Where is Herbert Grönemeyer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Herbert Grönemeyer's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
