Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nicolaas Bloembergen (born March 11, 1920, Dordrecht, Netherlands; died 2017), was a Dutch-born American physicist. Bloembergen's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award and National Medal of Science.
Nicolaas Bloembergen’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
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Nicolaas Bloembergen’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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US rank in 2025
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Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Nicolaas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver
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What the chart says
Nicolaas, according to the stars
Core essence
Nicolaas feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Nicolaas is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Nicolaas 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 Nicolaas 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 Nicolaas wants to be loved
Nicolaas wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Nicolaas be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Nicolaas creates
How Nicolaas makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Nicolaas creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Nicolaas is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Nicolaas is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Nicolaas runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Nicolaas Bloembergen's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 11, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Nicolaas Bloembergen was born on March 11, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Nicolaas Bloembergen's birth date, March 11, 1920, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Nicolaas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nicolaas Bloembergen's date-only chart is Mars square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Nicolaas Bloembergen combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Nicolaas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Nicolaas Bloembergen, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.0° to 0.1° orb
Nicolaas’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMoonsquareSaturn0.1° to 6.6° orb
Nicolaas’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Nicolaas’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Nicolaas’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
Nicolaas’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.6° to 1.8° orb
Nicolaas’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.6° to 1.7° orb
Nicolaas’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrinePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
Nicolaas’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrinePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
Nicolaas’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.3° orb
Nicolaas’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.5° orb
Nicolaas’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb
Nicolaas’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Nicolaas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAries 5°29′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Nicolaas may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAries 21°08′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Nicolaas looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAries 18°11′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Nicolaas is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaGemini 15°10′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Nicolaas needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 15°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Nicolaas leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.1°
- Chiron square Pluto 0.2°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 0.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Nicolaas’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Mercury; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Nicolaas is read as tuned to what is not said.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Nicolaas’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Kite · Mars, Uranus, Pluto, SaturnA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nicolaas Bloembergen, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Nicolaas’s cards
Every card is computed from March 11, 1920, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Nicolaas Bloembergen, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Nicolaas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189987, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by ... Vetter (Spaarnestad Photo), CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Nicolaas Bloembergen’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Nicolaas Bloembergen?
- Nicolaas Bloembergen was a Pisces: born March 11, 1920, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Monkey.
- What was Nicolaas Bloembergen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 11, 1920 birth.
- What time was Nicolaas Bloembergen born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Nicolaas Bloembergen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the March 11, 1920 birth date.
- What was Nicolaas Bloembergen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 11, 1920 birth date.
- Where was Nicolaas Bloembergen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Nicolaas Bloembergen's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
