Markus Blocher
Markus Blocher (born April 16, 1971, Männedorf, Switzerland), aged 55, is a Swiss entrepreneur.
Markus Blocher’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Markus
Markus Blocher’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Markus in the U.S.?
#1336
US rank in 2025
~14,947
Americans share it since 1915
1994
its peak year
Markus ranked 752nd in 1971, the year of this birth, with 119 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Markus’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Markus’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1971, 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 Markus apart
The family line: born to Christoph Blocher.
The same date carries Selena. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
Markus, according to the stars
Core essence
Markus 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 Markus 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.
How Markus wants to be loved
Markus wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Markus, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Markus creates
How Markus makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Markus creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Markus is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Markus is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Markus 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 Markus's birth date. Working below.
Where Markus sits
Six lines
Markus’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Markus Blocher
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Männedorf 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 Männedorf that night
Computed for 47.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Männedorf at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 5.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Männedorf sits at 47.3°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −42.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Männedorf on any night.
The Moon, 68% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 16° below the horizon.
How unusual Markus's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Markus Blocher's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 16, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Markus Blocher was born on April 16, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
Markus Blocher's birth date, April 16, 1971, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Markus’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Markus Blocher's date-only chart is Venus sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Markus Blocher combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Markus’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableVenussextileSaturn0.1° to 1.2° orb
Markus’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileMars0.5° to 1.1° orb
Markus’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.2° to 1.7° orb
Markus’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.0° to 6.5° orb
stableSunsquareMars5.0° to 5.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto5.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.6° to 5.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto5.7° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Markus’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 10°44′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 26°06′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 7°48′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 5°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.6°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.7°
Markus’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Markus’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.
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.0°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.8°
Born the same day as Markus
Selena was born on April 16, 1971 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Männedorf, at 47.3°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
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- Philippe SternSwiss entrepreneur
- Christian FassnachtSwiss footballer (born 1993)
More charts like Markus’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Theo AlbrechtGerman entrepreneur
- Mohammed Hussein Al AmoudiSaudi businessman and billionaire
- Viktor VekselbergRussian–Cypriot oligarch and businessman
Born in Pig years
- Glenn CloseAmerican actress (born 1947)
- Stephen CollinsAmerican actor
- Dave CoulierAmerican actor and comedian
Also born on April 16
- Selena1971
- Akon1973
- Anya Taylor-Joy1996
- Sadie Sink2002
- Luol Deng1985
- Alek Wek1977
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-BakerBritish athlete, politician, Cabinet minister, life peer and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Walter KohnAmerican physicist
- Edward Victor AppletonEnglish physicist
Other Aries Pig charts
- Matt OrzechAmerican football long snapper
- Oren BurksAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Maliek CollinsAmerican football defensive tackle
- Chuck ClarkAmerican football player
Other Gilded Diplomats
- Auston TrustyAmerican soccer player
- Obed VargasMexican soccer player
- Youssef BelammariMoroccan footballer
- Kristian WelchAmerican football linebacker
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Patrick MekariAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Ross MatiscikAmerican football long snapper
- Robert HainseyAmerican football player
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Markus’s cards
Computed from April 16, 1971. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
2 · Diplomat♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Markus’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q105074295 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Markus Blocher.
Quick answers about Markus Blocher’s chart
- How old is Markus Blocher?
- Markus Blocher is 55 years old, born April 16, 1971 in Männedorf, Switzerland.
- What zodiac sign is Markus Blocher?
- Markus Blocher is an Aries: born April 16, 1971, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Markus Blocher's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 16, 1971 birth.
- What is Markus Blocher's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Markus Blocher's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Markus Blocher's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Markus Blocher's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
