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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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 1880

2019

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Johannes’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Johannes sits

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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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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

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. 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 Johannes’s chart

Johannes’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Johannes Diderik van der Waals, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Johannes’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunsquareUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb

    Johannes’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus3.6° to 5.2° orb

    Johannes’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn4.9° orb

    Johannes’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter6.4° to 7.0° orb

    Johannes’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • 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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Johannes turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

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

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Johannes feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

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

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Johannes is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

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

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

    Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Johannes is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Johannes is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

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.

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

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°).

Johannes’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. 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

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Johannes is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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 Johannes’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, 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 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 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Johannes Diderik van der Waals, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Johannes’s cards

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The Star

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The Gilded Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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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

No birth time is on public record for Johannes Diderik van der Waals, 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

Johannes’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q131721, 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.

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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster.
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 time was Johannes Diderik van der Waals 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 was Johannes Diderik van der Waals's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the November 23, 1837 birth date.
What was Johannes Diderik van der Waals's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 23, 1837 birth date.
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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