Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (born August 30, 1852, Rotterdam, Netherlands; died 1911), was a Dutch physical and organic chemist. Hoff's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and Pour le Mérite.
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Jacobus
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Jacobus in the U.S.?
#12777
US rank in 2025
~142
Americans share it since 1979
1997
its peak year
US records hold Jacobus from 1979 onward, though not for 1880 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1997 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jacobus’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jacobus’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Jacobus apart
Ernest Rutherford (1871) and Warren Buffett (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Jacobus, according to the stars
Core essence
Jacobus notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Jacobus is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Jacobus is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Jacobus needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Jacobus wants to be loved
Jacobus wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Jacobus gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Jacobus creates
How Jacobus makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Jacobus builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Jacobus is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Jacobus 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Jacobus fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Jacobus's birth date. Working below.
Where Jacobus sits
Six lines
Jacobus’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rotterdam 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 Rotterdam that night
Computed for 51.92°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Rotterdam was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 82.8° up.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Rotterdam sits at 51.9°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Rotterdam on any night.
The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 18° below the horizon.
How unusual Jacobus's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 30, 1852, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Rat
Water RatSaw the opening before you did.
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born on August 30, 1852, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff's birth date, August 30, 1852, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Jacobus’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Fire.
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Jacobus’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° 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
stableMoonoppositionMercury0.0° to 6.8° orb
Jacobus’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.0° to 6.1° orb
Jacobus’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Jacobus’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineUranus0.7° to 1.6° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.9° to 1.7° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune1.8° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableSuntrinePluto5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.3° to 5.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune6.1° to 6.9° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.7° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Jacobus’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 27°46′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 8°40′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 25°33′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 11°39′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 28°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.3°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 1.5°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 1.5°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.2°
Jacobus’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
in its own sign, Pisces; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Jacobus’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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.0°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.2°
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More charts like Jacobus’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Oscar HijuelosAmerican novelist
- Leon EdelCanadian writer
- Marya ZaturenskaUkrainian-American poet
Born in Rat years
- Bella HadidAmerican model
- Rubens BarrichelloBrazilian racing driver
- Anya Taylor-JoyActress
Also born on August 30
- Ernest Rutherford1871
- Warren Buffett1930
- Cameron Diaz1972
- Bebe Rexha1989
- Thom Tillis1960
- Gabriel Aubry1975
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Diahann CarrollAmerican actress, singer, model and activist
- Arthur KennedyAmerican actor
- Brady CorbetAmerican film director and actor
Other Virgo Rat charts
- Trey PipkinsAmerican football guard/tackle
- Troy DyeAmerican football linebacker
- Geron ChristianAmerican football offensive tackle
- Ross MatiscikAmerican football long snapper
Other Evergreen Seekers
- Heisuke HironakaJapanese mathematician
- Leon M. LedermanAmerican mathematician and physicist
- Verner von HeidenstamSwedish writer
- Bruce BeutlerAmerican immunologist and geneticist
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Hudson WilliamsCanadian actor (born 2001)
- Alexis Mac AllisterArgentine association football player (born 1998)
- Michael OliseFrench footballer (born 2001)
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Jacobus’s cards
Computed from August 30, 1852. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jacobus’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q102822 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff.
Quick answers about Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff?
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was a Virgo: born August 30, 1852, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 30, 1852 birth.
- What was Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
