Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921, Bad Kissingen, Germany; died 2020), was a German-American physicist, Nobel laureate. Steinberger's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science and Matteucci Medal.
Jack Steinberger’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rooster, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Jack
Jack Steinberger’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Jack in the U.S.?
#15
US rank in 2025
~759,677
Americans share it since 1880
1927
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1921, Jack came 18th among boys and 965th among girls, carried by 10,757 American boys and 59 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jack’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jack’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Lilac · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1921, 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 Jack apart
Jack Steinberger took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1956, at 35.
The classrooms behind this chart: New Trier High School and Illinois Institute of Technology.
Jack Steinberger was raised 2 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jack Steinberger: Illinois Institute of Technology alumni, German atheists and Jewish humanists.
Ian McKellen (1939) and Cillian Murphy (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- New Trier High School, Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Chicago
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1988), National Medal of Science (1988) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1956)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Citizenship
- United States and Switzerland
- Languages
- English and German
- Wikipedia editions
- 64
What the chart says
Jack, according to the stars
Core essence
Jack is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Jack needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Jack is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Jack needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Jack wants to be loved
Jack wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Jack creates
How Jack 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. Jack 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: Jack 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Jack is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Jack scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Jack's birth date. Working below.
Where Jack sits
Six lines
Jack’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Jack Steinberger
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bad Kissingen 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 Bad Kissingen that night
Computed for 50.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bad Kissingen was Alioth, in Ursa Major, 83.8° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 50.2°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Bad Kissingen at all: they sit past the −39.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 85% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Bad Kissingen, Germany
The death is recorded at Geneva, Canton of Geneva in 2020.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jack Steinberger: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Jack's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Gemini · T-square onto Sun · 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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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Jack Steinberger's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 25, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterCandid to a fault.
Jack Steinberger was born on May 25, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Jack Steinberger's birth date, May 25, 1921, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Jack’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jack Steinberger's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jack Steinberger combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Jack’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Capricorn 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
stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.0° orb
Jack’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.4° to 3.2° orb
Jack’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.8° to 2.5° orb
Jack’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableUranustrinePluto1.9° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter3.6° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus3.6° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn4.2° to 4.9° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.4° to 6.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.2° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Jack’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 12°49′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 22°01′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 10°57′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 27°56′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 4°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.3°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 1.5°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.7°
- Eros square Mars 2.5°
Jack’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Jack’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · 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.
T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Uranus, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Uranus, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.7°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.7°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.8°
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on May 25
- Ian McKellen1939
- Cillian Murphy1976
- Kagiso Rabada1995
- David Sacks1972
- Chloé Lukasiak2001
- Amy Klobuchar1960
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Federico ViñasUruguayan footballer
- Samet AkaydınTurkish association football player (born 1994)
- Maximilian BeierGerman footballer (born 2002)
Other Gemini Rooster charts
- John CockcroftBritish physicist
- Richard PowersAmerican novelist (born 1957)
- Michael WilliamsonAmerican photographer
- Eddie AdamsAmerican photographer
Other Steadfast Seekers
- Trey McBrideAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Isiah PachecoAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Troy DyeAmerican football linebacker
- Zach HarrisonAmerican football player (born 2001)
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Howard SacklerAmerican screenwriter
- Paula VogelAmerican playwright
- James Truslow AdamsAmerican writer and historian
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Jack’s cards
Computed from May 25, 1921. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q153210 (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 Sigismund von Dobschütz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jack Steinberger at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jack Steinberger.
Quick answers about Jack Steinberger’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jack Steinberger?
- Jack Steinberger was a Gemini: born May 25, 1921, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Jack Steinberger's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 25, 1921 birth.
- What was Jack Steinberger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jack Steinberger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jack Steinberger's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jack Steinberger's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
