Horst Faas
Horst Faas (born April 28, 1933, Berlin, Germany; died 2012), was a German photojournalist. Faas's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Photography, Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and George Polk Award.
Horst Faas’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Horst
Horst Faas’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
What Horst’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on H (8) and closes on T (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Horst’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
White · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1933, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Horst apart
Horst Faas took the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1964, at 31.
The working life starts in 1956, at 23.
The grave is at Berlin.
Wikipedia's editors put Horst Faas under Photographers from Berlin, German war photographers and Photography in Vietnam.
The same date carries Oscar Griffin, Jr.. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Awards
- George Polk Award (1997), Dr. Erich Salomon Prize (2005) and Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography (1972)
- Working from
- 1956
- Buried at
- Berlin
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 18
What the chart says
Horst, according to the stars
Core essence
Horst is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Horst is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Horst processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Horst needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Horst wants to be loved
Horst wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Horst is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Horst creates
How Horst makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Horst builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Horst is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Horst is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Horst 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 Horst's birth date. Working below.
Where Horst sits
Six lines
Horst’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Horst Faas
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Berlin 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 Berlin that night
Computed for 52.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Berlin at 9 p.m. that evening: Phecda of Ursa Major, within 5.0° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 52.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Nothing below −37.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Berlin on any night.
The Moon, 15% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 12° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Berlin, Germany
The death is recorded at Munich, Upper Bavaria in 2012.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Horst Faas: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Horst's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Jupiter · A leaning bowl
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
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Horst Faas's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 28, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Horst Faas was born on April 28, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Horst Faas's birth date, April 28, 1933, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Horst’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Horst Faas' date-only chart is Sun trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Horst Faas combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Horst’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Gemini 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
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
Horst’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineNeptune1.3° to 2.6° orb
Horst’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.6° to 1.9° orb
Horst’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussquarePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter3.4° to 4.7° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.9° to 5.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn5.6° to 6.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.0° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Horst’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 27°08′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 26°50′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 16°56′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 27°26′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.7°
Horst’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Horst’s chart
Yod onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.6°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.2°
Born the same day as Horst
Oscar Griffin, Jr. was born on April 28, 1933 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Berlin, at 52.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Horst
Other photographers
- Héctor Rondón Lovera1933
- Joe Rosenthal1911
- Ovie Carter1946
- Fridtjof Nansen1861
- Eddie Adams1933
- John L. Gaunt1924
Born in Germany
- Reinhold WürthGerman businessman
- Anne FrankGerman-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim
- Klaus-Michael KühneGerman billionaire and businessman
- Hardy KrügerGerman actor
- Karl LagerfeldGerman fashion designer
- Klaus HasselmannGerman climate researcher, meteorologist, and oceanologist (born 1931)
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- Demarcus LawrenceAmerican football player (born 1992)
Born in Rooster years
- David BoreanazAmerican actor
- Natasha BedingfieldEnglish and New Zealand singer‑songwriter (born 1981)
- Corey BohanAustralian BMX rider
Also born on April 28
- Penélope Cruz1974
- Kurt Gödel1906
- Jessica Alba1981
- Diego Simeone1970
- Melanie Martinez1995
- Ferruccio Lamborghini1916
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Jane KrakowskiAmerican actress and singer, comedian
- Jesse JamesAmerican entrepreneur and television personality
- Taylor KinneyAmerican actor and model (born 1981)
Other Taurus Rooster charts
- Kunal NayyarBritish actor
- Lauren JacksonAustralian basketball player
- Susie WilesChief of Staff to President of the United States
- Morgan WallenAmerican country singer
Other Evergreen Guardians
- Shaheen AfridiPakistani cricketer
- Paul NichollsBritish jockey and trainer
- Amybeth McNultyIrish-Canadian actress
- Bailey ZimmermanAmerican singer
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Charles Levendoskypoet and journalist from the US
- Philip K. DickAmerican science fiction author
- Samuel R. DelanyAmerican author and literary critic (born 1942)
From the journal: Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why · Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say
Horst’s cards
Computed from April 28, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Horst’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76935 (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 Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Horst Faas at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Horst Faas.
Quick answers about Horst Faas’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Horst Faas?
- Horst Faas was a Taurus: born April 28, 1933, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Horst Faas's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 28, 1933 birth.
- What was Horst Faas's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Horst Faas's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Horst Faas's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Horst Faas's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
