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Kurt Alder

Kurt Alder (born July 10, 1902, Chorzów, Poland; died 1958), was a German chemist. Alder's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Emil Fischer Medal and Fresenius Prize.

Kurt Alder’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Tiger, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Kurt Alder’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 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Kurt in the U.S.?

#2271

US rank in 2025

~86,054

Americans share it since 1894

1964

its peak year

Kurt is in US records from 1894, but 1902 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1964.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kurt’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

9

Soul Urge · meaning

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on K (2) and closes on T (2).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Kurt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus

Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1902, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Kurt apart

The Emil Fischer Medal came in 1938, when Kurt Alder was 36.

Study took Kurt Alder to Kiel University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Kurt Alder lies at Deutzer Friedhof.

On Wikipedia the categories read People from Chorzów, Academic staff of the University of Cologne and Kiel University alumni.

Nikola Tesla (1856) and Alice Munro (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Kiel University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1950), Emil Fischer Medal (1938) and Fresenius Prize (1938)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Buried at
Deutzer Friedhof
Citizenship
Germany
Languages
German
Wikipedia editions
74

What the chart says

Kurt, according to the stars

Core essence

Kurt feels the room before entering it. The core of Kurt is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Kurt, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Kurt 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 Kurt needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Kurt wants to be loved

Kurt 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 Kurt like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Kurt creates

How Kurt 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. Kurt 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: Kurt is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Kurt is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Kurt scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Kurt's birth date. Working below.

Where Kurt sits

Six lines

Kurt’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Kurt

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kurt

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Kurt

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kurt

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Kurt

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kurt

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chorzów on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Kurt’s birth-night reference starEdasichwarm orange · DracoEdasich, in Draco. A warm orange star, 79.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Edasich →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 13.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Chorzów that night

Computed for 50.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Chorzów at 9 p.m. that evening: Edasich of Draco, within 10.7° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 50.3°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Nothing below −39.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chorzów on any night.

The Moon, 33% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Chorzów, Poland

The death is recorded at Cologne, Cologne Government Region in 1958.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Kurt Alder: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Kurt's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Gemini · Yod onto Sun · A leaning bowl

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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Kurt Alder at a glance

Cancer Sun

Hard shell, soft centre.

Kurt Alder's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 10, 1902, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Water Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

Kurt Alder was born on July 10, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 11

Sees what the rest missed.

Kurt Alder's birth date, July 10, 1902, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Kurt’s chart

Kurt’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Mars · Square, 0.4° orbUranus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.7° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.4° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.7° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.4° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.5° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.6° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.8° orbSun in Cancer · 17°13′☉17°Moon in Virgo · 22°38′☽22°Mercury in Gemini · 28°19′☿28°Venus in Gemini · 11°53′♀11°Mars in Gemini · 23°01′♂23°Jupiter in Aquarius · 15°28′ · retrograde♃℞15°Saturn in Capricorn · 25°03′ · retrograde♄℞25°Uranus in Sagittarius · 18°10′ · retrograde♅℞18°Neptune in Cancer · 1°48′♆1°Pluto in Gemini · 18°51′♇18°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableMoonsquareMars0.1° to 6.8° orb

    Kurt’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto0.7° orb

    Kurt’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus2.7° orb

    Kurt’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter3.0° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.3° to 3.7° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto3.3° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.8° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus4.5° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.2° to 5.4° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus5.7° to 6.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.4° to 7.6° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Kurt’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 11°22′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 4°11′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 28°12′ (moves 0.77° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 23°31′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 16°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 1.2°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.9°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.4°

Kurt’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Kurt’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Mercury, Venus, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Sun · Jupiter, Uranus, SunTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 0.9°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 2.0°

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Kurt’s cards

Computed from July 10, 1902. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

11 · Visionary

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kurt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76595 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kurt Alder at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kurt Alder.

Quick answers about Kurt Alder’s chart

What zodiac sign was Kurt Alder?
Kurt Alder was a Cancer: born July 10, 1902, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What was Kurt Alder's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 10, 1902 birth.
What was Kurt Alder's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Kurt Alder's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Kurt Alder's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Kurt Alder's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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