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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.

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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.

Intimate circleWide network
Imre

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Imre

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Imre

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Imre

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Imre

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Imre

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ 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.

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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

Intense, 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

Calm 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

Freedom 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

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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.7° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 1.4° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.5° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.7° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 3° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 4° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 5.6° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 5.6° orbSun in Scorpio · 16°34′☉16°Moon in Aquarius · 15°07′☽15°Mercury in Scorpio · 5°53′☿5°Venus in Libra · 25°08′♀25°Mars in Scorpio · 23°31′♂23°Jupiter in Gemini · 14°25′ · retrograde♃℞14°Saturn in Sagittarius · 27°48′♄27°Uranus in Aries · 8°02′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Virgo · 3°23′♆3°Pluto in Cancer · 19°33′ · retrograde♇℞19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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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. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Imre’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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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Imre’s cards

Computed from November 9, 1929. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese 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.

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