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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rooster, with 
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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.
Horst’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Horst Faas, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Gemini 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.
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
Horst’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.2° to 4.4° orb
Horst’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.4° to 4.7° orb
Horst’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSuntrineMars4.9° to 5.7° orb
Horst’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune5.0° to 5.2° orb
Horst’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineJupiter5.3° to 6.3° orb
Horst’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableVenussquareSaturn5.6° to 6.8° orb
Horst’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.0° orb
Horst’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 27°08′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Horst building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 26°50′ (moves 0.36° 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: Horst is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosCapricorn 16°56′ (moves 0.16° 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. Horst is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 27°26′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Horst carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Horst that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.7°
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°).
Horst’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Horst is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Horst’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Horst Faas, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Horst
Oscar Griffin, Jr. was born on April 28, 1933 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.
More people like Horst
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Also born on April 28
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Jane KrakowskiAmerican actress and singer, comedian
- Jesse JamesAmerican entrepreneur and television personality
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Other Evergreen Guardians
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- Paul NichollsBritish jockey and trainer
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Famous people with Life Path 3
- Charles Levendoskypoet and journalist from the US
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- Samuel R. DelanyAmerican author and literary critic (born 1942)
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Horst’s cards
Every card is computed from April 28, 1933, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Horst Faas, 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
Horst’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76935, 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 Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Horst Faas at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster.
- 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 time was Horst Faas 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 Horst Faas's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the April 28, 1933 birth date.
- What was Horst Faas's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 28, 1933 birth date.
- 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.
