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Stephan Schmidheiny

Stephan Schmidheiny (born October 29, 1947, St. Gallen, Switzerland), aged 79, is a Swiss businessman.

Stephan Schmidheiny’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Stephan Schmidheiny’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Guardian

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#1850

US rank in 2025

~27,910

Americans share it since 1895

1989

its peak year

Stephan ranked 387th in 1947, the year of this birth, with 313 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Stephan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

2

Expression · connecting people

11

Soul Urge · insight

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

Stephan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy

Amber · Crimson · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 Stephan apart

Stephan Schmidheiny was born to Max Schmidheiny.

The same date carries Richard Dreyfuss. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Citizenship
Switzerland
Languages
German
Wikipedia editions
7

What the chart says

Stephan, according to the stars

Core essence

Stephan does not do surface. The core of Stephan is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Stephan is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Stephan wants to be loved

Stephan 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 Stephan even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Stephan creates

How Stephan makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Stephan creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Stephan is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Stephan is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Stephan 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 Stephan's birth date. Working below.

Where Stephan sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Stephan

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Stephan

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

PrivateExpressive
Stephan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Stephan

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Stephan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Stephan

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Stephan Schmidheiny

Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Gallen 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 St. Gallen that night

Computed for 47.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Caph stood nearest the zenith over St. Gallen at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.6° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.

From 47.4°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from St. Gallen at all: they sit past the −42.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.

How unusual Stephan's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet

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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Stephan Schmidheiny in 15 seconds

Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Stephan Schmidheiny's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 29, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Stephan Schmidheiny was born on October 29, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Stephan Schmidheiny's birth date, October 29, 1947, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Stephan’s chart

Stephan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.6° orbMars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.6° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.1° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.4° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 4.3° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.4° orbSun in Scorpio · 5°11′☉5°Moon in Taurus · 0°25′☽0°Mercury in Scorpio · 20°27′ · retrograde☿℞20°Venus in Scorpio · 19°49′♀19°Mars in Leo · 15°29′♂15°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 1°07′♃1°Saturn in Leo · 21°30′♄21°Uranus in Gemini · 25°52′ · retrograde♅℞25°Neptune in Libra · 11°27′♆11°Pluto in Leo · 14°53′♇14°

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

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.5° orb

    Stephan’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.4° to 0.8° orb

    Stephan’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn0.8° to 1.4° orb

    Stephan’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn1.1° to 2.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune3.8° to 4.3° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars4.0° to 4.7° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto4.3° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars4.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto5.3° to 5.8° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.8° to 6.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 12°41′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 1°18′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 9°10′ (moves 0.50° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 4°19′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 0°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 0.9°
  • Chiron square Pluto 2.2°
  • Eros square Neptune 2.3°
  • Chiron square Mars 2.8°

Stephan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Stephan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus biquintile Uranus 0.1°
  • Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.6°

Born the same day as Stephan

Richard Dreyfuss was born on October 29, 1947 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 47.4°N, St. Gallen keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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Stephan’s cards

Computed from October 29, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Guardian

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Stephan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q684167 (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.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Stephan Schmidheiny.

Quick answers about Stephan Schmidheiny’s chart

How old is Stephan Schmidheiny?
Stephan Schmidheiny is 79 years old, born October 29, 1947 in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
What zodiac sign is Stephan Schmidheiny?
Stephan Schmidheiny is a Scorpio: born October 29, 1947, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Stephan Schmidheiny's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 29, 1947 birth.
What is Stephan Schmidheiny's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Stephan Schmidheiny's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Stephan Schmidheiny's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Stephan Schmidheiny's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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