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), Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Thomas
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
Thomas ranked 8th among boys and 1,184th among girls in 1955, the year of this birth, with 45,855 American boys and 72 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Thomas’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 6: drive against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Thomas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Thomas apart
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887) and Ralph Fiennes (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Göttingen on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Göttingen that night
Computed for 51.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Miram stood nearest the zenith over Göttingen at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.8° above the horizon in Perseus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 51.5°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 −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 55% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.
How unusual Thomas's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Neptune · A bowl chart
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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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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSuntrinePluto0.8° to 1.8° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter1.1° to 2.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.5° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune1.6° to 2.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus3.1° to 4.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 3°08′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 7°20′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 21°06′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 15°19′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 1°52′ (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 trine Jupiter 0.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.0°
Thomas’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Thomas’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Thomas’s cards
Computed from December 22, 1955. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Thomas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q97270 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Thomas C. Südhof.
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.
- 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 is Thomas C. Südhof's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Thomas C. Südhof's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
