Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee (born Timothy John Berners-Lee; June 8, 1955, London, United Kingdom), aged 71, is an English computer scientist. Berners-Lee is best known for HTML, HTTP and World Wide Web. Berners-Lee's honours include Order of Merit, Turing Award and Worthy of the City.
Tim Berners-Lee’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.How compatible are you with Tim Berners-Lee?
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Tim Berners-Lee’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Tim in the U.S.?
#3230
US rank in 2025
~83,546
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Tim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Tim, according to the stars
Core essence
Tim is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Tim needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Tim is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Tim needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Tim wants to be loved
Tim wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Tim is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Tim creates
How Tim makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Tim creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Tim 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 7 is the seeker. Tim 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Tim does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Tim's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Tim sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Tim Berners-Lee's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 8, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Tim Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 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 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Tim Berners-Lee's birth date, June 8, 1955, 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 Tim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tim Berners-Lee's date-only chart is Uranus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Tim Berners-Lee combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Tim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Tim Berners-Lee, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Capricorn 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.
stableVenussquarePluto0.0° to 1.1° orb
Tim’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranussquareNeptune0.2° orb
Tim’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextileUranus0.9° to 2.0° orb
Tim’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
Tim’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.3° to 2.6° orb
Tim’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.3° to 3.5° orb
Tim’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextilePluto3.4° to 3.7° orb
Tim’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.6° to 3.7° orb
Tim’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.5° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 1.3° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 1.5° to 13.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Tim’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 ℞Aquarius 5°04′ (moves 0.03° 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 Tim making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 24°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Tim caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosTaurus 28°59′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Tim wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLibra 8°24′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Tim is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 9°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Tim leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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 sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Ceres trine Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea square Mars 0.4°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 1.2°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.4°
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°).
Tim’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Tim is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Tim’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 semi-square Mars 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tim Berners-Lee, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Tim’s cards
Every card is computed from June 8, 1955, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Tim Berners-Lee, 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
Tim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80, 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 Web Summit, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tim Berners-Lee at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tim Berners-Lee.
Quick answers about Tim Berners-Lee’s chart
- How old is Tim Berners-Lee?
- Tim Berners-Lee is 71 years old, born June 8, 1955 in London, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Tim Berners-Lee?
- Tim Berners-Lee is a Gemini: born June 8, 1955, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
- What is Tim Berners-Lee's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 8, 1955 birth.
- What time was Tim Berners-Lee 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 Tim Berners-Lee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the June 8, 1955 birth date.
- What is Tim Berners-Lee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 8, 1955 birth date.
- Where is Tim Berners-Lee's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tim Berners-Lee's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
