Simon van der Meer
Simon van der Meer (born November 24, 1925, The Hague, Netherlands; died 2011), was a Dutch physicist. Meer's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize and Honorary doctors of Ghent University.
Simon van der Meer’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Simon
Simon van der Meer’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Simon in the U.S.?
#230
US rank in 2025
~70,444
Americans share it since 1880
2015
its peak year
Simon ranked 310th in 1925, the year of this birth, with 337 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Simon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Simon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Rose-gold · Botanical green
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 1925, 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 Simon apart
Simon van der Meer took the Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize in 1982, at 57.
Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet and Delft University of Technology shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as cancer.
Simon van der Meer was married Catharina M. Koopman.
Wikipedia's editors put Simon van der Meer under Delft University of Technology alumni, Particle physicists and Scientists from The Hague.
Katherine Heigl (1978) and Hande Erçel (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet and Delft University of Technology
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1984) and Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize (1982)
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Languages
- French and Dutch
- Wikipedia editions
- 77
What the chart says
Simon, according to the stars
Core essence
Simon is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Simon is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Simon is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Simon needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Simon wants to be loved
Simon wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Simon you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Simon creates
How Simon makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Simon creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Simon is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Simon is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Simon runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Simon's birth date. Working below.
Where Simon sits
Six lines
Simon’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Simon van der Meer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Hague 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 The Hague that night
Computed for 52.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Ruchbah stood nearest the zenith over The Hague at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.1° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
At 52.1°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −37.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 70% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- The Hague, Netherlands
- Lived in
- The Hague
Wikidata records The Hague as Simon van der Meer's home, The Hague among them.
The death is recorded at Geneva, Canton of Geneva in 2011.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Simon van der Meer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Simon's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · No Air planets
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 →Simon van der Meer at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Simon van der Meer's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 24, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Simon van der Meer was born on November 24, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Simon van der Meer's birth date, November 24, 1925, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Simon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Simon van der Meer's date-only chart is Venus sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs, and none in Air.
- Simon van der Meer combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Simon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Pisces 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
stableVenussextileSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Simon’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.6° to 0.8° orb
Simon’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.9° to 1.7° orb
Simon’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.5° to 2.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.5° to 2.4° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.1° orb
stableVenussextileUranus2.2° to 3.2° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.2° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.3° to 6.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Simon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°31′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 22°58′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 19°07′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 23°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 8°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Venus 0.2°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.3°
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.8°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.0°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.7°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.0°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.7°
Simon’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Simon’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.4°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.2°
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Simon’s cards
Computed from November 24, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Simon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104779 (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 CERN, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Simon van der Meer at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Simon van der Meer.
Quick answers about Simon van der Meer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Simon van der Meer?
- Simon van der Meer was a Sagittarius: born November 24, 1925, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Simon van der Meer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 24, 1925 birth.
- What was Simon van der Meer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Simon van der Meer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Simon van der Meer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Simon van der Meer's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
