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Tobias Asser

Tobias Asser (born April 28, 1838, Amsterdam, Netherlands; died 1913), was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar. Asser served as President of the Institut de Droit International and Minister of State. Asser's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Honorary doctor of the Humboldt University of Berlin and Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna.

Tobias Asser’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Tobias Asser’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#283

US rank in 2025

~29,322

Americans share it since 1880

2016

its peak year

US name records start in 1880, 42 years after this birth. In that first year Tobias ranked 800th, with 7 American boys registered.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Tobias’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Tobias’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

White · Blush · Gold

The record

What sets Tobias apart

Penélope Cruz (1974) and Kurt Gödel (1906) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Tobias, according to the stars

Core essence

Tobias is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Tobias is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Tobias wants to be loved

Tobias wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Tobias, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Tobias creates

How Tobias makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Tobias creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Tobias is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Tobias 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Tobias gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Tobias's birth date. Working below.

Where Tobias sits

Six lines

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Intimate circleWide network
Tobias

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tobias

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

PrivateExpressive
Tobias

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Tobias

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Tobias

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Tobias

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Tobias’s birth-night reference starPhecdablue-white · Ursa MajorPhecda, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 86.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Phecda →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 31.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Amsterdam that night

Computed for 52.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Amsterdam at 9 p.m. that evening: Phecda of Ursa Major, within 3.5° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 97 catalog stars were up in all.

At 52.4°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 −37.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 24% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.

How unusual Tobias's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Tobias Asser in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Tobias Asser's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 28, 1838, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Earth Dog

Worries so you don't have to.

Tobias Asser was born on April 28, 1838, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Tobias Asser's birth date, April 28, 1838, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Tobias’s chart

Tobias’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.7° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.2° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.6° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.7° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.8° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.1° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 4.8° orbMars fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 7.4° orbSun in Taurus · 7°43′☉7°Moon in Cancer · 1°53′☽1°Mercury in Taurus · 27°37′☿27°Venus in Pisces · 22°47′♀22°Mars in Aries · 24°17′♂24°Jupiter in Virgo · 8°53′ · retrograde♃℞8°Saturn in Scorpio · 26°52′ · retrograde♄℞26°Uranus in Pisces · 11°29′♅11°Neptune in Aquarius · 10°22′♆10°Pluto in Aries · 16°53′♇16°

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

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.4° to 1.1° orb

    Tobias’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter0.7° to 1.7° orb

    Tobias’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune2.2° to 3.1° orb

    Tobias’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.6° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.3° to 4.2° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn3.6° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus4.8° to 4.9° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.0° to 7.8° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.5° to 13.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 1.4° to 13.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 2.9° to 15.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 19°18′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 1°46′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 29°34′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 21°48′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 14°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Mercury 2.0°
  • Chiron sextile Pluto 2.4°
  • Hygiea opposition Mars 2.5°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 2.7°

Tobias’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Tobias’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 Venus 0.1°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.4°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.5°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 1.5°

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Tobias’s cards

Computed from April 28, 1838. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Tobias’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q216872 (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.

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

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Quick answers about Tobias Asser’s chart

What zodiac sign was Tobias Asser?
Tobias Asser was a Taurus: born April 28, 1838, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Tobias Asser's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 28, 1838 birth.
What was Tobias Asser's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Tobias Asser's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Tobias Asser's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Tobias Asser's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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