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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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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 1880
2006
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Joachim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
No documented birth time exists for Joachim Frank, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Joachim’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.1° to 0.8° orb
Joachim’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.2° to 0.9° orb
Joachim’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.5° to 2.2° orb
Joachim’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.0° orb
Joachim’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
Joachim’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineJupiter3.4° to 4.4° orb
Joachim’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSunconjunctionMars4.2° to 4.5° orb
Joachim’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSuntrineSaturn4.4° to 5.4° orb
Joachim’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 28°40′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Joachim is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresLibra 19°38′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Joachim is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosSagittarius 24°02′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Joachim attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 0°14′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Joachim feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Joachim carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros square Neptune 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Eros square Mercury 2.4°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 2.6°
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°).
Joachim’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Joachim 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 Joachim’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 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 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.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joachim Frank, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Joachim
John Clute was born on September 12, 1940 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. 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
Every card is computed from September 12, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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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
No birth time is on public record for Joachim Frank, 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
Joachim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28833112, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
- 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 time was Joachim Frank 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 is Joachim Frank's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 12, 1940 birth date.
- What is Joachim Frank's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 12, 1940 birth date.
- 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.
