J. Michael Kosterlitz
J. Michael Kosterlitz (born June 22, 1943, Aberdeen, United Kingdom), aged 83, is a British-American physicist. Kosterlitz's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Maxwell Medal and Prize and Lars Onsager Prize.
J. Michael Kosterlitz’s zodiac sign is Gemini or Cancer (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with J. Michael Kosterlitz
What J. Michael Kosterlitz’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on J (1) and closes on J (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
J. Michael Kosterlitz’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
—
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Your planetary stone, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, 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 J. Michael Kosterlitz apart
The Maxwell Medal and Prize came in 1981, when J. Michael Kosterlitz was 38.
Study took J. Michael Kosterlitz to Brasenose College and Robert Gordon's College.
The family line: born to Hans Kosterlitz.
Wikipedia files J. Michael Kosterlitz under People educated at Robert Gordon's College, American people of Scottish-Jewish descent and British secular Jews.
Klaus Maria Brandauer shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Brasenose College, Robert Gordon's College and Gonville and Caius College
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2016), Fellow of the Royal Society (2026) and Maxwell Medal and Prize (1981)
- Citizenship
- United States and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 66
What the chart says
J. Michael Kosterlitz, according to the stars
How J. Michael Kosterlitz wants to be loved
J. Michael Kosterlitz wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore J. Michael Kosterlitz openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How J. Michael Kosterlitz creates
How J. Michael Kosterlitz makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. J. Michael Kosterlitz creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: J. Michael Kosterlitz is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. J. Michael Kosterlitz is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means J. Michael Kosterlitz gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from J. Michael Kosterlitz's birth date. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Aberdeen 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 Aberdeen that night
Computed for 57.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Aberdeen at 9 p.m. that evening: Alioth of Ursa Major, within 0.9° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 57.1°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Nothing below −32.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Aberdeen on any night.
The Moon, 73% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat -13° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Providence
Wikidata records Providence as J. Michael Kosterlitz's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for J. Michael Kosterlitz: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual J.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree · No retrogrades at all
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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Gemini or Cancer Sun
J. Michael Kosterlitz was born on a day when the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
J. Michael Kosterlitz was born on June 22, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
J. Michael Kosterlitz's birth date, June 22, 1943, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in J. Michael Kosterlitz’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in J. Michael Kosterlitz's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
J. Michael Kosterlitz’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableSunsquareNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb
J. Michael Kosterlitz’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussextilePluto0.4° orb
J. Michael Kosterlitz’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileSaturn0.8° to 1.4° orb
J. Michael Kosterlitz’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.0° to 1.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.1° to 2.2° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto1.5° to 2.6° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn2.1° to 2.9° orb
stableVenustrineMars3.5° to 3.8° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto7.5° to 7.7° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.6° to 15.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
J. Michael Kosterlitz’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 26°05′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 1°16′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 5°04′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 19°01′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.0°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 0.7°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.6°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 3.0°
J. Michael Kosterlitz’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Jupiter
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects
Configurations in J. Michael Kosterlitz’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°
Born the same day as J. Michael Kosterlitz
Klaus Maria Brandauer was born on June 22, 1943 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Aberdeen, at 57.1°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
J. Michael Kosterlitz’s cards
Computed from June 22, 1943. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
J. Michael Kosterlitz’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1700920 (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 US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same J. Michael Kosterlitz at Wikipedia and vivo.brown.edu.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by J. Michael Kosterlitz.
Quick answers about J. Michael Kosterlitz’s chart
- How old is J. Michael Kosterlitz?
- J. Michael Kosterlitz is 83 years old, born June 22, 1943 in Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is J. Michael Kosterlitz?
- J. Michael Kosterlitz was born on a day when the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What is J. Michael Kosterlitz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 22, 1943 birth.
- What is J. Michael Kosterlitz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is J. Michael Kosterlitz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is J. Michael Kosterlitz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is J. Michael Kosterlitz's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
