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Rainer Weiss

Rainer Weiss (born September 29, 1932, Berlin, Germany; died 2025), was an American physicist. Weiss's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Princess of Asturias Awards and Einstein Prize.

Rainer Weiss’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Rainer Weiss’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Strategist

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Rainer in the U.S.?

#3429

US rank in 2025

~1,276

Americans share it since 1955

2018

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Rainer falls under that line for 1932. Its peak came in 2018, and 1,276 Americans have carried it since 1955.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Rainer’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

11

Soul Urge · insight

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on R (9) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

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

Rainer’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Sapphire, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus

Lavender · Blush · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1932, 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 Rainer apart

The Einstein Prize came in 2007, when Rainer Weiss was 75.

Rainer Weiss was taught at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wikipedia files Rainer Weiss under Kavli Prize laureates in Astrophysics, Emigrants from Nazi Germany and German emigrants to Czechoslovakia.

Robert Benton shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (2017), Einstein Prize (2007) and Ehrenplakette der Stadt Frankfurt am Main (2020)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
65

What the chart says

Rainer, according to the stars

Core essence

Rainer makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Rainer is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

How Rainer wants to be loved

Rainer wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Rainer openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Rainer creates

How Rainer makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Rainer creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Rainer 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Rainer 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Rainer fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Rainer's birth date. Working below.

Where Rainer sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Rainer

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Rainer

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Rainer

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Rainer

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

PracticalVisionary
Rainer

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Rainer

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Rainer Weiss

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

Rainer’s birth-night reference starAlderaminwhite · CepheusAlderamin, in Cepheus. A white star, 80.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alderamin →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 22.6° 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 Berlin that night

Computed for 52.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alderamin stood nearest the zenith over Berlin at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.1° above the horizon in Cepheus.

Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

At 52.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Berlin at all: they sit past the −37.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 28° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Berlin, Germany

The death is recorded at Cambridge, Middlesex County in 2025.

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

How unusual Rainer's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Uranus

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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The quick version

Libra Sun

Every side of every argument.

Rainer Weiss's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 29, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Water Monkey

Wit is the tool.

Rainer Weiss was born on September 29, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Rainer Weiss's birth date, September 29, 1932, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Rainer’s chart

Rainer’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.1° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.6° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.9° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.3° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.8° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.6° orbSun in Libra · 6°05′☉6°Moon in Virgo · 25°30′☽25°Mercury in Libra · 6°08′☿6°Venus in Leo · 21°24′♀21°Mars in Leo · 5°11′♂5°Jupiter in Virgo · 10°34′♃10°Saturn in Capricorn · 28°07′ · retrograde♄℞28°Uranus in Aries · 22°01′ · retrograde♅℞22°Neptune in Virgo · 8°46′♆8°Pluto in Cancer · 23°19′♇23°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Rainer’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Rainer’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.4° to 1.5° orb

    Rainer’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsextileMars0.7° to 1.1° orb

  • stableUranussquarePluto1.3° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune1.7° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto4.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus6.1° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn6.8° to 7.4° orb

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 2.6° to 16.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 28°20′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°38′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 21°06′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 5°08′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 16°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Chiron trine Saturn 0.2°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 0.3°
  • Eros trine Uranus 0.9°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.0°

Rainer’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Rainer’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn 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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun quintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Mercury quintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°

Born the same day as Rainer

Robert Benton was born on September 29, 1932 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Berlin, at 52.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.

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Rainer’s cards

Computed from September 29, 1932. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Rainer’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2128461 (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 Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Rainer Weiss at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rainer Weiss.

Quick answers about Rainer Weiss’s chart

What zodiac sign was Rainer Weiss?
Rainer Weiss was a Libra: born September 29, 1932, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Rainer Weiss's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 29, 1932 birth.
What was Rainer Weiss's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Rainer Weiss's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Rainer Weiss's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Rainer Weiss's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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