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Nikolaas Tinbergen

Nikolaas Tinbergen (born April 15, 1907, The Hague, Netherlands; died 1988), was a Dutch Zoologist, ethologist. Tinbergen's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Elliott Coues Award and Croonian Medal and Lecture.

Nikolaas Tinbergen’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Nikolaas Tinbergen’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

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

What Nikolaas’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on N (5) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Nikolaas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy

White · Crimson · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1907, 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 Nikolaas apart

The Godman-Salvin Medal came in 1969, when Nikolaas Tinbergen was 62.

Study took Nikolaas Tinbergen to Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem and Leiden University.

On the family side, Nikolaas Tinbergen was born to D. C. Tinbergen.

Wikipedia files Nikolaas Tinbergen under Dutch expatriates in the United Kingdom, Autism researchers and New Naturalist writers.

Emma Watson (1990) and Tomas Tranströmer (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem and Leiden University
Awards
Croonian Medal and Lecture (1972), Elliott Coues Award (1972) and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1973)
Citizenship
United Kingdom and Kingdom of the Netherlands
Languages
English and Dutch
Wikipedia editions
61

What the chart says

Nikolaas, according to the stars

Core essence

Nikolaas 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 Nikolaas 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 Nikolaas wants to be loved

Nikolaas 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 Nikolaas, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Nikolaas creates

How Nikolaas 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. Nikolaas 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: Nikolaas is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Nikolaas 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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Nikolaas 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 Nikolaas's birth date. Working below.

Where Nikolaas sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Nikolaas

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Nikolaas

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Nikolaas

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Nikolaas

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

PracticalVisionary
Nikolaas

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Nikolaas

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 Nikolaas Tinbergen

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

Nikolaas’s birth-night reference starMerakwhite · Ursa MajorMerak, in Ursa Major. A white star, 85.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Merak →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 37.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over The Hague that night

Computed for 52.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at The Hague at 9 p.m. that evening: Merak of Ursa Major, within 4.9° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

The Hague sits at 52.1°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −37.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from The Hague on any night.

Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon up and 10% lit at waxing crescent.

The name and the places

Born in
The Hague, Netherlands

The death is recorded at Oxford in 1988.

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

How unusual Nikolaas's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl · 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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Aries Sun

Fires first. Thinks later.

Nikolaas Tinbergen's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 15, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Fire Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Nikolaas Tinbergen was born on April 15, 1907, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Nikolaas Tinbergen's birth date, April 15, 1907, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Nikolaas’s chart

Nikolaas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.1° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 1.1° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.7° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.4° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.7° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.1° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.6° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.8° orbSun in Aries · 24°22′☉24°Moon in Taurus · 25°44′☽25°Mercury in Pisces · 26°51′☿26°Venus in Pisces · 15°46′♀15°Mars in Capricorn · 6°15′♂6°Jupiter in Cancer · 4°34′♃4°Saturn in Pisces · 22°05′♄22°Uranus in Capricorn · 12°43′♅12°Neptune in Cancer · 10°01′♆10°Pluto in Gemini · 22°01′♇22°

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

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb

    Nikolaas’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.5° to 1.8° orb

    Nikolaas’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunsextilePluto1.9° to 2.8° orb

    Nikolaas’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussextileUranus2.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.6° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto4.3° to 5.3° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune5.2° to 6.3° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto5.7° to 6.8° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn5.8° to 6.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 17°28′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 23°48′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 0°30′ (moves 0.53° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 3°11′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 0°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Sun 0.6°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.4°
  • Ceres square Saturn 1.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.8°

Nikolaas’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Nikolaas’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

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Nikolaas’s cards

Computed from April 15, 1907. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Nikolaas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q153890 (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 Lorenz_and_Tinbergen2.jpg: Max Planck Gesellschaft derivative work: Materialscientist, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Nikolaas Tinbergen at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nikolaas Tinbergen.

Quick answers about Nikolaas Tinbergen’s chart

What zodiac sign was Nikolaas Tinbergen?
Nikolaas Tinbergen was an Aries: born April 15, 1907, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What was Nikolaas Tinbergen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 15, 1907 birth.
What was Nikolaas Tinbergen's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Nikolaas Tinbergen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Nikolaas Tinbergen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Nikolaas Tinbergen's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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