Stefan Hell
Stefan Hell (born December 23, 1962, Arad, Romania), aged 63, is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. Hell has served as advisory board. Hell's honours include Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg.
Stefan Hell’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Stefan
Stefan Hell’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Stefan in the U.S.?
#1023
US rank in 2025
~21,237
Americans share it since 1910
1991
its peak year
In 1962, 178 American boys were registered Stefan — 585th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Stefan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
11
Soul Urge · insight
1
Personality · self-directed
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
Stefan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Stefan apart
Finn Wolfhard (2002) and Eddie Vedder (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Stefan, according to the stars
Core essence
Stefan is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Stefan is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Stefan feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Stefan needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Stefan wants to be loved
Stefan wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Stefan even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Stefan creates
How Stefan makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Stefan creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Stefan is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Stefan 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 Stefan 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 Stefan's birth date. Working below.
Where Stefan sits
Six lines
Stefan’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Stefan Hell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Arad 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 Arad that night
Computed for 46.17°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Arad was Almach, in Andromeda, 83.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Arad sits at 46.2°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −43.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 10% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.
How unusual Stefan's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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 →Stefan Hell at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Stefan Hell's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 23, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Stefan Hell was born on December 23, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Stefan Hell's birth date, December 23, 1962, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Stefan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Stefan Hell's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Stefan Hell combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Stefan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Scorpio 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
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 6.6° orb
Stefan’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.8° to 2.3° orb
Stefan’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.2° to 2.4° orb
Stefan’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 3.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto3.5° to 5.0° orb
stableSuntrineUranus3.6° to 4.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 4.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.5° to 4.7° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.3° to 5.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.8° to 5.9° orb
stableSuntrineMars5.9° to 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Stefan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 6°47′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 15°43′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 16°14′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 5°32′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.2°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 0.4°
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.7°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 2.0°
- Eros conjunction Venus 2.9°
Stefan’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Stefan’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.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
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- Finn Wolfhard2002
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Stefan’s cards
Computed from December 23, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Stefan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q91410 (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 Bernd Schuller, Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Stefan Hell at Wikipedia, nanobiophotonics.mpibpc.mpg.de and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Stefan Hell.
Quick answers about Stefan Hell’s chart
- How old is Stefan Hell?
- Stefan Hell is 63 years old, born December 23, 1962 in Arad, Romania.
- What zodiac sign is Stefan Hell?
- Stefan Hell is a Capricorn: born December 23, 1962, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Stefan Hell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 23, 1962 birth.
- What is Stefan Hell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Stefan Hell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Stefan Hell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Stefan Hell's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
