Hugh David Politzer
Hugh David Politzer (born August 31, 1949, New York City, United States), aged 77, is an American physicist. Politzer is best known for quantum chromodynamics. Politzer's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Sakurai Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Hugh David Politzer’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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Hugh David Politzer’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Storyteller
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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US rank in 2025
~84,179
Americans share it since 1880
1916
its peak year
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Hugh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
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What the chart says
Hugh, according to the stars
Core essence
Hugh notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Hugh is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Hugh is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Hugh needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Hugh wants to be loved
Hugh wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Hugh gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Hugh creates
How Hugh makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Hugh creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Hugh is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Hugh is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Hugh does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Hugh's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Hugh David Politzer's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 31, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Hugh David Politzer was born on August 31, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Hugh David Politzer's birth date, August 31, 1949, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Hugh’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hugh David Politzer's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Hugh David Politzer combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Storyteller.
Hugh’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Hugh David Politzer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Sagittarius 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.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Hugh’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Hugh’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb
Hugh’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.7° to 3.3° orb
Hugh’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussextilePluto3.0° to 4.1° orb
Hugh’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb
Hugh’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb
Hugh’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.7° to 16.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 4.6° to 17.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Hugh’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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 3°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Hugh building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresLibra 1°14′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Hugh is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 28°27′ (moves 0.19° 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. Hugh is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLibra 6°52′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Hugh is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 15°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Hugh carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.6°
- Eros opposition Mars 2.6°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.6°
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°).
Hugh’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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Hugh is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Hugh’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.0°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.5°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Hugh David Politzer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Hugh
2 other people here were born on August 31, 1949, 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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Hugh’s cards
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☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Hugh David Politzer, 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
Hugh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107407, 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 University of Hawaii High Energy Physics Group, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hugh David Politzer 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.
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Quick answers about Hugh David Politzer’s chart
- How old is Hugh David Politzer?
- Hugh David Politzer is 77 years old, born August 31, 1949 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Hugh David Politzer?
- Hugh David Politzer is a Virgo: born August 31, 1949, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- What is Hugh David Politzer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 31, 1949 birth.
- What time was Hugh David Politzer 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 Hugh David Politzer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 31, 1949 birth date.
- What is Hugh David Politzer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 31, 1949 birth date.
- Where is Hugh David Politzer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Hugh David Politzer's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
