Thomas C. Südhof
Thomas C. Südhof (born December 22, 1955, Göttingen, Germany), aged 70, is a German biochemist. Südhof has served as professor. Südhof's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and NAS Award in Molecular Biology.
Thomas C. Südhof’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius or Capricorn (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Wood Goat, with 
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How common is the name Thomas in the U.S.?
#34
US rank in 2025
~2,367,087
Americans share it since 1880
1952
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Thomas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Thomas, according to the stars
How Thomas wants to be loved
Thomas 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 Thomas you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Thomas creates
How Thomas makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Thomas creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Thomas is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Thomas is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Thomas 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 Thomas's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Sagittarius or Capricorn Sun
Thomas C. Südhof was born on a day when the Sun moved from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Thomas C. Südhof was born on December 22, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Thomas C. Südhof's birth date, December 22, 1955, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Thomas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Thomas C. Südhof's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
Thomas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Thomas C. Südhof, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Pisces or Aries 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.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Thomas’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb
Thomas’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.7° orb
Thomas’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.5° to 0.7° orb
Thomas’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrinePluto0.8° to 1.8° orb
Thomas’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.1° to 2.2° orb
Thomas’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
Thomas’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.5° orb
Thomas’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquareNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb
Thomas’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareNeptune1.6° to 2.8° orb
Thomas’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.0° orb
Thomas’s growth and depths act as one.
stableVenusoppositionUranus3.1° to 4.4° orb
Thomas’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Thomas’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 3°08′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Thomas making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAquarius 7°20′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Thomas is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosScorpio 21°06′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Thomas is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 15°19′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Thomas is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 1°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Thomas is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.0°
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°).
Thomas’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. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Thomas 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 Thomas’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.
T-square onto Neptune · Venus, Uranus, NeptuneAn 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Thomas C. Südhof, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Thomas’s cards
Every card is computed from December 22, 1955, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Thomas C. Südhof, 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
Thomas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q97270, 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 Juancamartos, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Thomas C. Südhof at Wikipedia and med.stanford.edu.
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 Thomas C. Südhof’s chart
- How old is Thomas C. Südhof?
- Thomas C. Südhof is 70 years old, born December 22, 1955 in Göttingen, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Thomas C. Südhof?
- Thomas C. Südhof was born on a day when the Sun moved from Sagittarius into Capricorn. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
- What is Thomas C. Südhof's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 22, 1955 birth.
- What time was Thomas C. Südhof 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 is Thomas C. Südhof's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the December 22, 1955 birth date.
- What is Thomas C. Südhof's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 22, 1955 birth date.
- Where is Thomas C. Südhof's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Thomas C. Südhof's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
