Hermann Joseph Muller
Hermann Joseph Muller (born December 21, 1890, New York City, United States; died 1967), was an American biologist. Muller is best remembered for X-ray. Muller's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Darwin–Wallace Medal and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Hermann Joseph Muller’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius or Capricorn (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Metal Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Hermann
How common is the name Hermann in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~731
Americans share it since 1880
1916
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Hermann falls under that line for 1890. Its peak came in 1916, and 731 Americans have carried it since 1880.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hermann’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on N (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
Hermann’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
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Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Hermann apart
X-ray. That is the work the name is attached to.
The schooling ran through Morris High School and Cornell University.
Hermann Joseph Muller was raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read American communists, Amherst College faculty and Academics of the University of Edinburgh.
Frances Goodrich shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- X-ray
- Educated at
- Morris High School, Cornell University and University of Texas at Austin
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1946), Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1958) and Kimber Genetics Award (1955)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
What the chart says
Hermann, according to the stars
How Hermann wants to be loved
Hermann wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Hermann and watch them fall for you again.
How Hermann creates
How Hermann 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. Hermann 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: Hermann is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Hermann 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Hermann slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Hermann's birth date. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Algol, in Perseus, 89.0° up.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 49° below the horizon, Moon up and 83% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Indianapolis, Marion County in 1967.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Hermann Joseph Muller: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Hermann's chart is
Chart pattern score
45 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mars · 2 planets at a critical degree · Venus retrograde
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
Sagittarius or Capricorn Sun
Hermann Joseph Muller was born on a day when the Sun moved from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Tiger
Metal TigerCourage before caution.
Hermann Joseph Muller was born on December 21, 1890, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Hermann Joseph Muller's birth date, December 21, 1890, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Hermann’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hermann Joseph Muller's date-only chart is Venus opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
Hermann’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Aries or Taurus 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
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.1° to 1.5° orb
Hermann’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Hermann’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextileUranus0.2° to 1.1° orb
Hermann’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareMars0.6° to 1.5° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune0.9° to 1.6° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto1.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableMarstrineUranus2.6° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssquarePluto2.6° to 3.4° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.5° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.7° to 5.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Hermann’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 3°25′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 7°59′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 8°31′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 29°51′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 27°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Sun 0.0°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.1°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.8°
- Chiron square Uranus 2.9°
Hermann’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Hermann’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Venus, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- 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.
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.0°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.6°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
Born the same day as Hermann
Frances Goodrich was born on December 21, 1890 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from New York City, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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- Alan DuganAmerican poet
- Anthony SuauAmerican photographer
- Vermont C. RoysterAmerican writer
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Ziaire WilliamsAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Hermann’s cards
Computed from December 21, 1890. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hermann’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83598 (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 Alfred De Bat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hermann Joseph Muller at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hermann Joseph Muller.
Quick answers about Hermann Joseph Muller’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hermann Joseph Muller?
- Hermann Joseph Muller was born on a day when the Sun moved from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Hermann Joseph Muller's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 21, 1890 birth.
- What was Hermann Joseph Muller's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Hermann Joseph Muller's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Hermann Joseph Muller's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hermann Joseph Muller's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
