Johann Deisenhofer
Johann Deisenhofer (born September 30, 1943, Zusamaltheim, Germany), aged 83, is a German scientist. Deisenhofer's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Otto Bayer Award.
Johann Deisenhofer’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Johann
Johann Deisenhofer’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Johann in the U.S.?
#1856
US rank in 2025
~5,519
Americans share it since 1912
2010
its peak year
In 1943, 17 American girls were registered Johann — 2,190th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Johann’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
1
Soul Urge · independence
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Johann’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Blush · Soft pink
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 1943, 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 Johann apart
The Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics came in 1986, when Johann Deisenhofer was 43.
Study took Johann Deisenhofer to Technical University of Munich.
On Wikipedia the categories read University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center faculty, German biophysicists and Technical University of Munich alumni.
Monica Bellucci (1964) and Max Verstappen (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Technical University of Munich
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1988), Otto Bayer Award (1988) and Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics (1986)
- Citizenship
- United States and Germany
- Languages
- German and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Johann, according to the stars
Core essence
Johann makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Johann is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Johann cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Johann needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Johann wants to be loved
Johann wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Johann and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Johann creates
How Johann makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Johann creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Johann is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Johann is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Johann scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Johann's birth date. Working below.
Where Johann sits
Six lines
Johann’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Johann Deisenhofer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Zusamaltheim on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Zusamaltheim that night
Computed for 48.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Zusamaltheim at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 5.2° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
Zusamaltheim sits at 48.5°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −41.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Zusamaltheim on any night.
Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon down and 2% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Zusamaltheim, Germany
- Lives in
- Dallas
Wikidata records Dallas as Johann Deisenhofer's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Johann Deisenhofer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Johann's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No Water 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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Johann Deisenhofer's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 30, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Johann Deisenhofer was born on September 30, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Johann Deisenhofer's birth date, September 30, 1943, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Johann’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Johann Deisenhofer's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Johann Deisenhofer combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Johann’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Libra 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
stableMoontrineMars0.1° to 6.2° orb
Johann’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextilePluto0.4° orb
Johann’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.6° to 1.2° orb
Johann’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsextilePluto1.5° to 2.5° orb
stableSuntrineUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter2.0° to 2.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.6° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Johann’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 8°50′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 4°09′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 29°17′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 25°59′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 14°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Uranus 0.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.4°
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.6°
- Ceres square Sun 2.2°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.2°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.9°
Johann’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Johann’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.
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Johann’s cards
Computed from September 30, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
2 · Diplomat♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Johann’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76612 (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 Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Johann Deisenhofer at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Johann Deisenhofer.
Quick answers about Johann Deisenhofer’s chart
- How old is Johann Deisenhofer?
- Johann Deisenhofer is 83 years old, born September 30, 1943 in Zusamaltheim, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Johann Deisenhofer?
- Johann Deisenhofer is a Libra: born September 30, 1943, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Johann Deisenhofer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 30, 1943 birth.
- What is Johann Deisenhofer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Johann Deisenhofer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Johann Deisenhofer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Johann Deisenhofer's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
