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Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Johannes Diderik van der Waals (born November 23, 1837, Leiden, Netherlands; died 1923), was a Dutch physicist. Waals is best remembered for van der Waals equation and van der Waals radius. Waals's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics.

Johannes Diderik van der Waals’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Johannes Diderik van der Waals’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Storyteller

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Johannes in the U.S.?

#2499

US rank in 2025

~2,314

Americans share it since 1913

2019

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Johannes falls under that line for 1880. Its peak came in 2019, and 2,314 Americans have carried it since 1913.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Johannes’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Johannes’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 5 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Rose-gold · Scarlet

The record

What sets Johannes apart

Vincent Cassel (1966) and Gwynne Shotwell (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Johannes, according to the stars

Core essence

Johannes is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Johannes is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Johannes 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 Johannes 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 Johannes wants to be loved

Johannes wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Johannes you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Johannes creates

How Johannes makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Johannes creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Johannes 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Johannes 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Johannes has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Johannes's birth date. Working below.

Where Johannes sits

Six lines

Johannes’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Johannes

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Johannes

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Johannes

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Johannes

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Johannes

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Johannes

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Leiden on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Johannes’s birth-night reference starSchedarwarm orange · CassiopeiaSchedar, in Cassiopeia. A warm orange star, 83.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Schedar →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 52.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Leiden that night

Computed for 52.16°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Leiden was Schedar, in Cassiopeia, 83.2° up.

Of the 100 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Leiden sits at 52.2°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Leiden at all: they sit past the −37.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 45° below the horizon, Moon down and 18% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Johannes's chart is

Chart pattern score

42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl

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.

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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Truth first, tact later.

Johannes Diderik van der Waals's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 23, 1837, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Fire Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Johannes Diderik van der Waals was born on November 23, 1837, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Johannes Diderik van der Waals's birth date, November 23, 1837, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Johannes’s chart

Johannes’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.2° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.4° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.8° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.9° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.6° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.4° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.8° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.9° orbSun in Sagittarius · 1°02′☉1°Moon in Libra · 6°14′☽6°Mercury in Sagittarius · 0°12′☿0°Venus in Capricorn · 16°01′♀16°Mars in Sagittarius · 22°54′♂22°Jupiter in Virgo · 16°14′♃16°Saturn in Scorpio · 21°07′♄21°Uranus in Pisces · 4°37′♅4°Neptune in Aquarius · 5°48′♆5°Pluto in Aries · 15°07′ · retrograde♇℞15°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Johannes’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableMoontrineNeptune0.1° to 6.6° orb

    Johannes’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquarePluto0.3° to 1.5° orb

    Johannes’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.6° to 1.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus3.6° to 5.2° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn4.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter6.4° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.7° to 11.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 2.7° to 15.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 4.2° to 15.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Johannes’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 20°35′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 21°29′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 24°43′ (moves 0.83° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 9°30′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 27°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres opposition Mars 1.4°
  • Eros sextile Mars 1.8°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.9°

Johannes’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Johannes’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.0°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
  • Mars quintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.8°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.1°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.8°

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Johannes’s cards

Computed from November 23, 1837. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Storyteller

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Johannes’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q131721 (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 Nobel foundation ?, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Johannes Diderik van der Waals’s chart

What zodiac sign was Johannes Diderik van der Waals?
Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Sagittarius: born November 23, 1837, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Johannes Diderik van der Waals's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 23, 1837 birth.
What was Johannes Diderik van der Waals's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Johannes Diderik van der Waals's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Johannes Diderik van der Waals's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Johannes Diderik van der Waals's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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