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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Julian
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
In 1918, 724 American boys and 13 girls were registered Julian — 182nd among boys and 2,592nd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Julian’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
Julian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Julian apart
Abraham Lincoln (1809) and Charles Darwin (1809) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Julian sits
Six lines
Julian’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 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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The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.6° above the horizon in Auriga.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon, 4% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
How unusual Julian's chart is
Chart pattern score
76 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Aquarius · Grand trine · Five planets retrograde
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 →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 18° Pisces 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
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
stableMarssquarePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.1° to 2.6° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.5° to 5.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus4.4° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn6.0° to 7.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 27°20′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 23°47′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 3°48′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 5°56′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 21°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Julian’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Julian’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Julian’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Boris PasternakRussian writer
- Gertrude B. ElionAmerican biochemist and pharmacologist
- Dan ShechtmanIsraeli scientist
Born in Horse years
- Devon SawaCanadian actor
- Brandon SklenarAmerican actor
- Kitty Spencernoblewoman; eldest child of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
Also born on February 12
- Abraham Lincoln1809
- Charles Darwin1809
- Christina Ricci1980
- Josh Brolin1968
- Lee Byung-chul1910
- Bobi Wine1982
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Jesse PalmerCanadian player of American football, sports broadcaster born 1978
- Jamie OtisAmerican television personality
- Keith RichardsBritish musician, guitarist of the Rolling Stones
Other Aquarius Horse charts
- Johnny OrlandoCanadian singer-songwriter (born 2003)
- Whitney PeakUgandan-Canadian actress
- Shiho KuwakiJapanese professional golfer (born 2003)
- Dexter FletcherEnglish actor and director
Other Gilded Guardians
- George W. BushPresident of the United States from 2001 to 2009
- Alan TuringEnglish computer scientist
- Kofi Annan7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Sylvester StalloneAmerican actor and filmmaker
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Wilhelm WienGerman physicist
- Albrecht KosselGerman biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics
- Max BornGerman-Jewish physicist and mathematician
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Julian’s cards
Computed from February 12, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Julian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q186465 (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.
The same Julian Seymour Schwinger at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Julian Seymour Schwinger.
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.
- 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 was Julian Seymour Schwinger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Julian Seymour Schwinger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
