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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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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

US Social Security Administration public records

Jack’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Jack sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Jack

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jack

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

PrivateExpressive
Jack

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jack

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Jack

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jack

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

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Jack Steinberger in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Never 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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

Metal Rooster

Candid to a fault.

Jack Steinberger was born on May 25, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

Jack Steinberger's birth date, May 25, 1921, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in Jack’s chart

Jack’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Jack Steinberger, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.9° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.2° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.3° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.1° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 4° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 4° orbSun in Gemini · 3°40′Moon in Capricorn · 14°53′14°Mercury in Gemini · 20°16′20°Venus in Aries · 26°13′26°Mars in Gemini · 13°27′13°Jupiter in Virgo · 9°30′Saturn in Virgo · 17°59′17°Uranus in Pisces · 9°29′Neptune in Leo · 11°16′11°Pluto in Cancer · 7°34′

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.

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Conjunction
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

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.

  • 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

    Jack’s growth opens doors for their depths.

  • stableUranustrinePluto1.9° orb

    Jack’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter3.6° to 4.3° orb

    Jack’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssquareUranus3.6° to 4.3° orb

    Jack’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn4.2° to 4.9° orb

    Jack’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableSunsquareUranus5.3° to 6.3° orb

    Jack’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.4° to 6.3° orb

    Jack’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.2° to 7.4° orb

    Jack’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • 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

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.

  • ChironAries 12°49′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Jack may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • CeresCancer 22°01′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Jack is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.

  • ErosPisces 10°57′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Jack is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • HygieaLeo 27°56′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Jack at their best with something to be proud of.

  • Black Moon LilithAquarius 4°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Jack at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Jack’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. 1. Mercury11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Mars6 pts

    disposes Venus; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. Jupiter4 pts

    4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Jack 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 Jack’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, the shape it makesT-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, the shape it makesT-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 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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jack Steinberger, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Jack’s cards

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The Tower

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The Steadfast Seeker

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

yin Metal

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

yin Water

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Earth

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Jack Steinberger, 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

Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q153210, 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 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. 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster.
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 time was Jack Steinberger 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 was Jack Steinberger's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the May 25, 1921 birth date.
What was Jack Steinberger's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 25, 1921 birth date.
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.

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