Karl von Frisch
Karl von Frisch (born November 20, 1886, Vienna, Austria; died 1982), was a German-Austrian ethologist. Frisch's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Bavarian Order of Merit and Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art.
Karl von Frisch’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Karl
Karl von Frisch’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, 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
Karl ranked 249th in 1886, the year of this birth, with 48 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Karl’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on K (2) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Crimson · Scarlet
The record
What sets Karl apart
Karl von Frisch took the Lieben Prize in 1921, at 35.
University of Vienna and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München shaped the training.
The grave is at Perlacher Forst Cemetery.
The family line: born to Marie von Frisch and Anton von Frisch and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Karl von Frisch under Academic staff of the University of Rostock, Austrian people of Czech-Jewish descent and Farmers from Austria-Hungary.
The same date carries Bray Hammond. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- University of Vienna and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1973), Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1981) and Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1960)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Buried at
- Perlacher Forst Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 63
What the chart says
Karl, according to the stars
Core essence
Karl does not do surface. The core of Karl is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Karl is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Karl is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Karl needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Karl wants to be loved
Karl wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Karl even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
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 loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Karl is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Karl does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 von Frisch
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vienna 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 Vienna that night
Computed for 48.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Schedar stood nearest the zenith over Vienna at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.4° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 48.2°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Vienna at all: they sit past the −41.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 29% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Vienna, Austria
The death is recorded at Munich, Upper Bavaria in 1982.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Karl von Frisch: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Karl's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 unaspected 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.
Score your own chart →Karl von Frisch at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Karl von Frisch's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 20, 1886, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Dog
Fire DogWorries so you don't have to.
Karl von Frisch was born on November 20, 1886, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Karl von Frisch's birth date, November 20, 1886, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Karl’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Karl von Frisch's date-only chart is Venus opposition Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Karl von Frisch combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Karl’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Virgo 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
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.8° to 2.1° orb
Karl’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.2° to 2.2° orb
Karl’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.0° to 3.3° orb
Karl’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.8° to 3.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.1° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.6° to 13.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Karl’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 22°27′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 29°01′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 13°22′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 16°44′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 10°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.9°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.3°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.6°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.7°
Karl’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Karl’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 1.4°
Born the same day as Karl
Bray Hammond was born on November 20, 1886 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Vienna, at 48.2°N, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Karl’s cards
Computed from November 20, 1886. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
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 Q60060 (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 Stefanie Ludwig, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Karl von Frisch at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Karl von Frisch.
Quick answers about Karl von Frisch’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Karl von Frisch?
- Karl von Frisch was a Scorpio: born November 20, 1886, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Karl von Frisch's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 20, 1886 birth.
- What was Karl von Frisch's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Karl von Frisch's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Karl von Frisch's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Karl von Frisch's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
