Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész (born November 9, 1929, Budapest, Hungary; died 2016), was a Hungarian author. Kertész is best remembered for Liquidation and Fatelessness. Kertész's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary and Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary.
Imre Kertész’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Imre
Imre Kertész’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Imre in the U.S.?
#10074
US rank in 2025
~188
Americans share it since 1958
2023
its peak year
US records hold Imre from 1958 onward, though not for 1929 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2023 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Imre’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on I (9) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Imre’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
The record
What sets Imre apart
Carl Sagan (1934) and Hedy Lamarr (1914) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Imre, according to the stars
Core essence
Imre does not do surface. The core of Imre is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Imre is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Imre needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Imre needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Imre wants to be loved
Imre 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. Imre gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Imre creates
How Imre makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Imre creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Imre is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Imre is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Imre runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Imre's birth date. Working below.
Where Imre sits
Six lines
Imre’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Imre Kertész
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Budapest 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 Budapest that night
Computed for 47.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Budapest was Schedar, in Cassiopeia, 81.3° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.
Budapest sits at 47.5°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −42.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Budapest on any night.
The Moon, 53% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.
How unusual Imre's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 1 unaspected planet
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
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Imre Kertész's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 9, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Imre Kertész was born on November 9, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Imre Kertész's birth date, November 9, 1929, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Imre’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Imre Kertész's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 3°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Imre Kertész combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Imre’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Aquarius 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
stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.9° orb
Imre’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 6.8° orb
Imre’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.7° to 3.3° orb
Imre’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableVenussextileSaturn2.1° to 3.2° orb
stableSuntrinePluto2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.6° to 4.3° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.0° to 6.2° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars6.8° to 7.1° orb
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 2.7° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 4.1° to 14.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Imre’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 11°47′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 17°11′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 7°05′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 3°16′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 19°11′ (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 opposition Pluto 0.4°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.6°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.8°
Imre’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Libra; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Imre’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Sun quintile Neptune 1.2°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.2°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.1°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 2.1°
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Also born on November 9
- Carl Sagan1934
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Imre’s cards
Computed from November 9, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Imre’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q47755 (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 Unknown, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Imre Kertész at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Imre Kertész.
Quick answers about Imre Kertész’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Imre Kertész?
- Imre Kertész was a Scorpio: born November 9, 1929, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Imre Kertész's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 9, 1929 birth.
- What was Imre Kertész's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Imre Kertész's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Imre Kertész's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Imre Kertész's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
