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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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.

Nikolaas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Nikolaas sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.

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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Nikolaas’s chart

Nikolaas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Nikolaas Tinbergen, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Nikolaas’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.7° orb

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

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.6° to 4.0° orb

    Nikolaas’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 5.2° orb

    Nikolaas’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto4.3° to 5.3° orb

    Nikolaas’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune5.2° to 6.3° orb

    Nikolaas’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 5.5° orb

    Nikolaas’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenussquarePluto5.7° to 6.8° orb

    Nikolaas’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn5.8° to 6.8° orb

    Nikolaas’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Nikolaas making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

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

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Nikolaas feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

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

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Nikolaas is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

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

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Nikolaas feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Nikolaas guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

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

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°).

Nikolaas’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. 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

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Nikolaas is read as acting first and reflecting after.

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 Nikolaas’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nikolaas Tinbergen, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Nikolaas’s cards

Every card is computed from April 15, 1907, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

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The Evergreen Visionary

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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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

No birth time is on public record for Nikolaas Tinbergen, 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

Nikolaas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q153890, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
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 time was Nikolaas Tinbergen 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 Nikolaas Tinbergen's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 15, 1907 birth date.
What was Nikolaas Tinbergen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 15, 1907 birth date.
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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