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Martin Rethmann

Martin Rethmann (born August 12, 1969, Münster, Germany), aged 57, is a German entrepreneur.

Martin Rethmann’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Martin Rethmann’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#335

US rank in 2025

~317,037

Americans share it since 1880

1963

its peak year

The SSA recorded 3,758 American boys and 22 girls named Martin in 1969: 78th among boys and 2,886th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Martin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on M (4) 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

Martin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Gold

The record

What sets Martin apart

Erwin Schrödinger (1887) and George Soros (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Martin, according to the stars

Core essence

Martin is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Martin is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Martin needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Martin needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Martin wants to be loved

Martin wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Martin gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Martin creates

How Martin makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Martin creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Martin is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Martin 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Martin has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Martin's birth date. Working below.

Where Martin sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Martin

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Martin

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

PrivateExpressive
Martin

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Martin

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Martin

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Martin

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Martin Rethmann

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

Martin’s birth-night reference starEltaninwarm orange · DracoEltanin, in Draco. A warm orange star, 89.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Eltanin →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 16.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

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

The sky over Münster that night

Computed for 51.96°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Eltanin stood nearest the zenith over Münster at 9 p.m. that evening, 89.5° above the horizon in Draco.

Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

At 52.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 8° down.

How unusual Martin's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Mars · No retrogrades at all

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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Martin Rethmann in 15 seconds

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Martin Rethmann's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 12, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Earth Rooster

Prepared for everything, twice.

Martin Rethmann was born on August 12, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Martin Rethmann's birth date, August 12, 1969, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Martin’s chart

Martin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 0° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 0.4° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.7° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.7° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 1.8° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.8° orbSun in Leo · 19°33′☉19°Moon in Leo · 11°08′☽11°Mercury in Virgo · 8°53′☿8°Venus in Cancer · 10°33′♀10°Mars in Sagittarius · 9°19′♂9°Jupiter in Libra · 4°28′♃4°Saturn in Taurus · 8°53′♄8°Uranus in Libra · 1°41′♅1°Neptune in Scorpio · 25°56′♆25°Pluto in Virgo · 23°39′♇23°

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

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Martin’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Martin’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn1.1° to 2.2° orb

    Martin’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus1.4° to 1.9° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter4.7° to 5.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter5.6° to 6.6° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune5.9° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.8° to 12.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°24′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 1°17′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 11°12′ (moves 0.89° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 7°23′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 16°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Uranus 0.4°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 0.6°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 1.5°
  • Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.9°
  • Hygiea opposition Mars 1.9°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.3°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 2.3°
  • Chiron trine Mars 2.9°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.9°

Martin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Martin’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Mars · Venus, Saturn, MarsTwo 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.

  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 0.4°
  • Venus quintile Pluto 1.1°
  • Venus quincunx Mars 1.2°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.2°

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Martin’s cards

Computed from August 12, 1969. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

9 · Healer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Martin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q122810836 (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 Martin Rethmann.

Quick answers about Martin Rethmann’s chart

How old is Martin Rethmann?
Martin Rethmann is 57 years old, born August 12, 1969 in Münster, Germany.
What zodiac sign is Martin Rethmann?
Martin Rethmann is a Leo: born August 12, 1969, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Martin Rethmann's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 12, 1969 birth.
What is Martin Rethmann's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Martin Rethmann's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Martin Rethmann's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Martin Rethmann's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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