Niels Kaj Jerne
Niels Kaj Jerne (born December 23, 1911, London, United Kingdom; died 1994), was a Danish immunologist. Jerne's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Marcel Benoist Prize and Canada Gairdner International Award.
Niels Kaj Jerne’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Pig, with 
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Niels Kaj Jerne’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
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Niels’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Niels, according to the stars
Core essence
Niels is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Niels is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Niels wants to be loved
Niels 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 Niels even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Niels creates
How Niels makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Niels creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Niels 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 11 is the visionary, a master number. Niels 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Niels is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Niels's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Niels Kaj Jerne's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 23, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Pig
Metal PigGenerous to the last coin.
Niels Kaj Jerne was born on December 23, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Niels Kaj Jerne's birth date, December 23, 1911, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Niels’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Niels Kaj Jerne's date-only chart is Mars sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Niels Kaj Jerne combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Niels’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Niels Kaj Jerne, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn1.4° to 2.6° orb
Niels’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb
Niels’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunoppositionPluto2.1° to 3.1° orb
Niels’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineUranus3.2° to 3.3° orb
Niels’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 6.2° orb
Niels’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.8° orb
Niels’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.9° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 2.5° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleJupitersextileUranusorb from 4.9° to 5.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 6.4° to 18.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Niels’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 3°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Niels absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 2°27′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Niels is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosScorpio 24°07′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Niels is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 23°47′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Niels is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 11°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Niels is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.2°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Eros opposition Mars 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.8°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 0.8°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.2°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.5°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.6°
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°).
Niels’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. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun2 pts
2 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Niels is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Niels’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.
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
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.
- Sun biquintile Mars 0.0°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.0°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Niels Kaj Jerne, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Niels’s cards
Every card is computed from December 23, 1911, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Niels Kaj Jerne, 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
Niels’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q309876, 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 Niels K. Jernes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Niels Kaj Jerne at Wikipedia.
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 Niels Kaj Jerne’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Niels Kaj Jerne?
- Niels Kaj Jerne was a Capricorn: born December 23, 1911, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig.
- What was Niels Kaj Jerne's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 23, 1911 birth.
- What time was Niels Kaj Jerne 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 Niels Kaj Jerne's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the December 23, 1911 birth date.
- What was Niels Kaj Jerne's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 23, 1911 birth date.
- Where was Niels Kaj Jerne's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Niels Kaj Jerne's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
