Julian Seymour Schwinger
Julian Seymour Schwinger (born February 12, 1918, New York City, United States; died 1994), was an American theoretical physicist. Schwinger is best remembered for Schwinger variational principle, Schwinger function and Schwinger parametrization. Schwinger's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Guggenheim Fellowship and Humboldt Prize.
Julian Seymour Schwinger’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Horse, with 
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Julian Seymour Schwinger’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Julian in the U.S.?
#25
US rank in 2025
~268,291
Americans share it since 1880
2017
its peak year
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Julian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
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What the chart says
Julian, according to the stars
Core essence
Julian is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Julian is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Julian is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Julian needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Julian wants to be loved
Julian wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Julian be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Julian creates
How Julian makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Julian 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: Julian is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Julian is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Julian fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Julian's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Julian sits
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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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Julian Seymour Schwinger at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Julian Seymour Schwinger's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 12, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Julian Seymour Schwinger was born on February 12, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Julian Seymour Schwinger's birth date, February 12, 1918, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Julian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Julian Seymour Schwinger's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Julian Seymour Schwinger combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Julian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Julian Seymour Schwinger, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 18° Pisces 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.
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Julian’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurytrineMars0.0° to 1.6° orb
Julian’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.5° to 0.7° orb
Julian’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.7° to 2.1° orb
Julian’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquarePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
Julian’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.1° to 2.6° orb
Julian’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.6° to 2.7° orb
Julian’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
Julian’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.5° to 5.1° orb
Julian’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus4.4° to 5.1° orb
Julian’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.9° orb
Julian’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn6.0° to 7.5° orb
Julian’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Julian’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 27°20′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Julian absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 23°47′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Julian is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosPisces 3°48′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Julian is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaPisces 5°56′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Julian needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 21°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Julian exacting with themselves first.
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 sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Eros trine Pluto 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.6°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.3°
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°).
Julian’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. ♅ Uranus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Julian is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Julian’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 Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, UranusThree 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.
Kite · Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
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.
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.3°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Julian Seymour Schwinger, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Julian’s cards
Every card is computed from February 12, 1918, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Julian Seymour Schwinger, 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
Julian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q186465, 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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Julian Seymour Schwinger at Wikipedia.
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 Julian Seymour Schwinger’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Julian Seymour Schwinger?
- Julian Seymour Schwinger was an Aquarius: born February 12, 1918, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
- What was Julian Seymour Schwinger's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 12, 1918 birth.
- What time was Julian Seymour Schwinger 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 Julian Seymour Schwinger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the February 12, 1918 birth date.
- What was Julian Seymour Schwinger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 12, 1918 birth date.
- Where was Julian Seymour Schwinger's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Julian Seymour Schwinger's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
