Otto Diels
Otto Diels (born January 23, 1876, Hamburg, Germany; died 1954), was a German chemist. Diels's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal.
Otto Diels’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Otto
Otto Diels’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Otto in the U.S.?
#277
US rank in 2025
~40,015
Americans share it since 1880
2024
its peak year
The earliest American count for Otto is 1880, 4 years on: 63rd, 271 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Otto’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on O (6) and closes on O (6). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 6: tact against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Otto’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
The record
What sets Otto apart
Otto Diels took the Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal in 1931, at 55.
The classrooms behind this chart: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The grave is at Ulsnis Cemetery.
Otto Diels was born to Hermann Diels.
Wikipedia's editors put Otto Diels under Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium alumni, Scientists from Berlin and Academic staff of Kiel University.
Hideki Yukawa (1907) and Doutzen Kroes (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1950) and Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal (1931)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Buried at
- Ulsnis Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 70
What the chart says
Otto, according to the stars
Core essence
Otto is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Otto is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Otto wants to be loved
Otto 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 Otto, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Otto creates
How Otto makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Otto creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Otto 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Otto is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Otto leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Otto gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Otto's birth date. Working below.
Where Otto sits
Six lines
Otto’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Otto Diels
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hamburg on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Hamburg that night
Computed for 53.55°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Hamburg was Capella, in Auriga, 82.1° up.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Hamburg sits at 53.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hamburg at all: they sit past the −36.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon down and 7% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hamburg, Germany
The death is recorded at Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein in 1954.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Otto Diels: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Otto's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Pluto · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Otto Diels's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 23, 1876, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Pig
Wood PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Otto Diels was born on January 23, 1876, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Otto Diels's birth date, January 23, 1876, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Otto’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Otto Diels' date-only chart is Mercury opposition Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Otto Diels combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Otto’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.6° to 2.1° orb
Otto’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.0° to 2.5° orb
Otto’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextileNeptune1.4° to 2.6° orb
Otto’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileMars1.8° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune2.0° to 3.1° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.2° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.1° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter4.0° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn4.9° to 6.3° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto5.9° to 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Otto’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 21°56′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 6°28′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 16°44′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 17°12′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.0°
Otto’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 6 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Otto’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Mercury, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Pluto · Saturn, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.9°
More people like Otto
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- George de Hevesy1885
- Paul Karrer1889
- Friedrich Bergius1884
- Adolf von Baeyer1835
- Norman Haworth1883
- Otto Wallach1847
Born in Germany
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- Heinrich HertzGerman physicist
- Gustav StresemannGerman politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Ludwig QuiddeGerman politician
- Hermann HesseNobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter
- Max PlanckGerman theoretical physicist
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Otto’s cards
Computed from January 23, 1876. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Otto’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76616 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Otto Diels.
Quick answers about Otto Diels’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Otto Diels?
- Otto Diels was an Aquarius: born January 23, 1876, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Otto Diels's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 23, 1876 birth.
- What was Otto Diels's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Otto Diels's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Otto Diels's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Otto Diels's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
