Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank (born September 12, 1940, Siegen, Germany), aged 86, is a German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate. Frank's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Benjamin Franklin Medal.
Joachim Frank’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Joachim
Joachim Frank’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Joachim in the U.S.?
#4189
US rank in 2025
~1,203
Americans share it since 1912
2006
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Joachim falls under that line for 1940. Its peak came in 2006, and 1,203 Americans have carried it since 1912.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joachim’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
8
Soul Urge · achievement
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on J (1) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Joachim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
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 1940, 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 Joachim apart
Joachim Frank took the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2014, at 74.
Training came by way of Technical University of Munich and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Joachim Frank: University at Albany faculty, People from Siegen and Emigrants from West Germany to the United States.
The same date carries John Clute. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Technical University of Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and University of Freiburg
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2017), Benjamin Franklin Medal (2014) and Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2020)
- Citizenship
- United States and Germany
- Languages
- English and German
- Wikipedia editions
- 46
What the chart says
Joachim, according to the stars
Core essence
Joachim 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 Joachim is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Joachim wants to be loved
Joachim 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 Joachim openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Joachim creates
How Joachim 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. Joachim 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: Joachim is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Joachim is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Joachim channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Joachim's birth date. Working below.
Where Joachim sits
Six lines
Joachim’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Joachim Frank
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Siegen 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 Siegen that night
Computed for 50.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Siegen at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 9.5° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
Siegen sits at 50.9°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −39.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Siegen on any night.
The Moon, 87% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 11° below the horizon.
How unusual Joachim's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · Only two elements
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 →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Joachim Frank's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 12, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Joachim Frank was born on September 12, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Joachim Frank's birth date, September 12, 1940, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Joachim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joachim Frank's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joachim Frank combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Joachim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMoonoppositionPluto0.0° to 7.3° orb
Joachim’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb
Joachim’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.5° orb
Joachim’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 6.8° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter0.1° to 0.8° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn0.2° to 0.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.5° to 2.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.0° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars4.2° to 4.5° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn4.4° to 5.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Joachim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 28°40′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 19°38′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 24°02′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 0°14′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Neptune 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Eros square Mercury 2.4°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 2.6°
Joachim’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Joachim’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
Born the same day as Joachim
John Clute was born on September 12, 1940 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 50.9°N, Siegen keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Joachim’s cards
Computed from September 12, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joachim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28833112 (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 Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joachim Frank at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joachim Frank.
Quick answers about Joachim Frank’s chart
- How old is Joachim Frank?
- Joachim Frank is 86 years old, born September 12, 1940 in Siegen, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Joachim Frank?
- Joachim Frank is a Virgo: born September 12, 1940, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Joachim Frank's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 12, 1940 birth.
- What is Joachim Frank's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joachim Frank's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Joachim Frank's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joachim Frank's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
