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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born May 6, 1856, Příbor, Czech Republic, 18:30; died 1939), was an Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis. Freud is best remembered for id, ego and super-ego, Civilization and Its Discontents and The Interpretation of Dreams. Freud's honours include Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.

Sigmund Freud’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Sigmund Freud’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

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US rank in 2025

~2,855

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Sigmund’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

4 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus

Ivory · Blush · Scarlet

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What the chart says

Sigmund, according to the stars

Core essence

Sigmund is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Sigmund is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Sigmund processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Sigmund needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Sigmund wants to be loved

Sigmund wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Sigmund creates

How Sigmund makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Sigmund creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Sigmund is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Sigmund is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Sigmund fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Sigmund's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

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Intimate circleWide network
Sigmund

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sigmund

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Sigmund

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sigmund

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Sigmund

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sigmund

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Sigmund Freud in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Try rushing a Taurus. Go on.

Sigmund Freud's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Fire Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Sigmund Freud's birth date, May 6, 1856, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Sigmund’s chart

Sigmund’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.7° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.4° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.8° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 2° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.5° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 3.8° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 4.3° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 5.3° orbSun in Taurus · 16°19′ · house 7☉16°Moon in Gemini · 14°31′ · house 8☽14°Mercury in Taurus · 27°46′ · house 7☿27°Venus in Aries · 26°11′ · house 6♀26°Mars in Libra · 3°22′ · house 12 · retrograde♂℞3°Jupiter in Pisces · 29°34′ · house 5♃29°Saturn in Gemini · 27°33′ · house 8♄27°Uranus in Taurus · 20°35′ · house 7♅20°Neptune in Pisces · 19°51′ · house 5♆19°Pluto in Taurus · 4°27′ · house 7♇4°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSco 7°30′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCTau 7°30′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLeo 19°50′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAqr 19°50′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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AscendantScorpio
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Aspects, tightest first

  • UranussextileNeptuneseparating · 0.7° orb

    Sigmund’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • VenussextileSaturnapplying · 1.4° orb

    Sigmund’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MercurysextileJupiterapplying · 1.8° orb

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

  • JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 2.0° orb

    Sigmund’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • SunsextileNeptuneapplying · 3.5° orb

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

  • MarsoppositionJupiterapplying · 3.8° orb

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

  • SunconjunctionUranusapplying · 4.3° orb

    Sigmund’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.

  • MoonsquareNeptuneapplying · 5.3° orb

    Sigmund’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • MercurytrineMarsapplying · 5.6° orb

    Sigmund’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • MarssquareSaturnapplying · 5.8° orb

    Sigmund’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • MercuryconjunctionUranusseparating · 7.2° orb

    Sigmund’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

Sigmund’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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 5°41′ · House 4

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

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 8°58′ · House 8

    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 Sigmund feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 18°44′ · House 5

    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. Sigmund is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 23°37′ · House 4

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Sigmund is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 28°08′ · House 11

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Sigmund exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 0.6°
  • Eros conjunction Neptune 1.1°
  • Chiron square Pluto 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 1.4°
  • Chiron square Ascendant 1.8°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 1.9°
  • Chiron trine Mars 2.3°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 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°).

Sigmund’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon, Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    in its own sign, Pisces; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Sigmund is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Sigmund’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Uranus, PlutoThree 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, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mars, Jupiter, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.2°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.4°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
  • Sun semi-sextile Moon 1.8°
  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.8°

Sigmund’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1ScorpioPluto in Taurus, house 7emptyself, body, how you arrive
2SagittariusJupiter in Pisces, house 5emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3CapricornSaturn in Gemini, house 8emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AquariusUranus in Taurus, house 7emptyhome, family, roots
5PiscesNeptune in Pisces, house 5Jupiter, Neptunecreativity, romance, play
6AriesMars in Libra, house 12Venuswork, habits, health
7TaurusVenus in Aries, house 6Sun, Mercury, Uranus, Plutopartnership, marriage, open rivals
8GeminiMercury in Taurus, house 7Moon, Saturnshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CancerMoon in Gemini, house 8emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10LeoSun in Taurus, house 7emptycareer, reputation, public life
11VirgoMercury in Taurus, house 7emptyfriends, community, the future
12LibraVenus in Aries, house 6Marsthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Sigmund’s cards

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The Fool

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The Steadfast Architect

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Sigmund’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q9215, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Max Halberstadt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Sigmund Freud’s chart

What zodiac sign was Sigmund Freud?
Sigmund Freud was a Taurus: born May 6, 1856, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
What was Sigmund Freud's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 6, 1856 birth.
What time was Sigmund Freud born?
18:30 local time in Příbor, Czech Republic, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Sigmund Freud's rising sign?
Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 18:30 birth time in Příbor, Czech Republic (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Sigmund Freud's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the May 6, 1856 birth date.
What was Sigmund Freud's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 5°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 6, 1856 birth time.
Where was Sigmund Freud's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 28°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Sigmund Freud's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon, Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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