
Karl Alexander Müller
Karl Alexander Müller (born April 20, 1927, Basel, Switzerland; died 2023), was a Swiss physicist. Müller is best remembered for superconductivity. Müller's honours include Robert Wichard Pohl Prize, Fellow of the American Physical Society and Honorary doctors of Ghent University.
Karl Alexander Müller’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Your match with Karl
Karl Alexander Müller’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Karl in the U.S.?
#1593
US rank in 2025
~101,751
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
The SSA recorded 630 American boys and 8 girls named Karl in 1927: 211th among boys and 3,719th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Karl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on K (2) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Karl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
The record
What sets Karl apart
Jessica Lange (1949) and Miranda Kerr (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Karl, according to the stars
Core essence
Karl leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Karl is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Karl is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Karl needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Karl wants to be loved
Karl wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Karl like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Karl creates
How Karl makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Karl builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Karl is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Karl is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Karl does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Karl's birth date. Working below.
Where Karl sits
Six lines
Karl’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Karl Alexander Müller
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Basel on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Basel that night
Computed for 47.56°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Basel at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 5.7° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 47.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Nothing below −42.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Basel on any night.
The Moon, 88% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 15° below the horizon.
How unusual Karl's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · 2 unaspected planets · No Earth 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.
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Aries Sun
First through every door.
Karl Alexander Müller's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 20, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Rabbit
Soft voice, sharp read.
Karl Alexander Müller was born on April 20, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 7
Digs under every answer.
Karl Alexander Müller's birth date, April 20, 1927, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Karl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Karl Alexander Müller's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Karl Alexander Müller combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Karl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Sagittarius 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
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 7.5° orb
Karl’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 6.7° orb
Karl’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.3° to 0.5° orb
Karl’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareUranus0.6° to 1.2° orb
stableMercurysquareMars1.5° to 2.3° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn1.8° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.1° to 3.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.2° to 3.5° orb
stableSunsextileMars2.4° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussextileUranus2.7° to 3.8° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.7° to 5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Karl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°34′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 20°59′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 13°22′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 5°44′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 5°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.4°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.5°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.6°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 1.8°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 2.2°
Karl’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Karl’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.1°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 1.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
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Also born on April 20
- Jessica Lange1949
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Karl’s cards
Computed from April 20, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Karl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q122298 (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 Armin Kübelbeck, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Karl Alexander Müller at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Karl Alexander Müller.
Quick answers about Karl Alexander Müller’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Karl Alexander Müller?
- Karl Alexander Müller was an Aries: born April 20, 1927, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Karl Alexander Müller's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 20, 1927 birth.
- What was Karl Alexander Müller's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Karl Alexander Müller's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Karl Alexander Müller's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Karl Alexander Müller's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.







