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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Ox, with 
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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.
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#230
US rank in 2025
~70,444
Americans share it since 1880
2015
its peak year
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Simon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Simon sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Simon van der Meer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Simon’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.5° to 2.4° orb
Simon’s affections and growth act as one.
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.1° orb
Simon’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileUranus2.2° to 3.2° orb
Simon’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSaturntrineUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb
Simon’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.9° to 5.0° orb
Simon’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.2° to 4.4° orb
Simon’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
Simon’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto6.3° to 6.5° orb
Simon’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°31′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Simon may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 22°58′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Simon is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosLibra 19°07′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Simon is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 23°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Simon is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 8°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Simon is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Simon’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. ♃ 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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Simon is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Simon’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.
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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Simon van der Meer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Simon’s cards
Every card is computed from November 24, 1925, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Simon van der Meer, 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
Simon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104779, 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 CERN, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Simon van der Meer 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
- 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 time was Simon van der Meer 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 Simon van der Meer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the November 24, 1925 birth date.
- What was Simon van der Meer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 24, 1925 birth date.
- 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.
