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Torsten Nils Wiesel

Torsten Nils Wiesel (born June 3, 1924, Uppsala, Sweden), aged 102, is a Swedish neuroscientist. Wiesel's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Medal of Science and Dickson Prize in Medicine.

Torsten Nils Wiesel’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Torsten Nils Wiesel’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

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

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

#6415

US rank in 2025

~705

Americans share it since 1962

2009

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Torsten falls under that line for 1924. Its peak came in 2009, and 705 Americans have carried it since 1962.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Torsten’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

3

Soul Urge · being heard

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on T (2) 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

Torsten’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1924, 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 Torsten apart

Torsten Nils Wiesel took the Rosenstiel Award in 1971, at 47.

Training came by way of Karolinska Institutet.

The family line: married Jean Stein.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Torsten Nils Wiesel: Scientists from Uppsala, Presidents of Rockefeller University and Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun.

Rafael Nadal (1986) and Désiré Doué (2005) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Karolinska Institutet
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1981), National Medal of Science (2005) and Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1978)
Citizenship
United States and Sweden
Languages
English and Swedish
Wikipedia editions
49

What the chart says

Torsten, according to the stars

Core essence

Torsten 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. Torsten needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Torsten processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Torsten needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Torsten wants to be loved

Torsten wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Torsten gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Torsten creates

How Torsten makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Torsten creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Torsten is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Torsten 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 "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Torsten goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Torsten's birth date. Working below.

Where Torsten sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Torsten

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Torsten

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Torsten

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Torsten

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

PracticalVisionary
Torsten

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Torsten

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Torsten Nils Wiesel

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Uppsala on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Torsten’s birth-night reference starThubanblue-white · DracoThuban, in Draco. A blue-white star, 85.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Thuban →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 22.9° 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 Uppsala that night

Computed for 59.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Uppsala at 9 p.m. that evening: Thuban of Draco, within 4.9° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 93 catalog stars above the horizon.

Uppsala sits at 59.8°N, high enough that Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −30.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, was still up; the Sun sat 0° below the horizon.

How unusual Torsten's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Mercury

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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Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Torsten Nils Wiesel's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 3, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Wood Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Torsten Nils Wiesel was born on June 3, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

Torsten Nils Wiesel's birth date, June 3, 1924, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Torsten’s chart

Torsten’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Mars · Trine, 0.5° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.6° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.6° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.8° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.6° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.7° orbSun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.8° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 2.8° orbSun in Gemini · 12°34′☉12°Moon in Gemini · 21°51′☽21°Mercury in Taurus · 18°34′☿18°Venus in Cancer · 16°46′♀16°Mars in Aquarius · 21°23′♂21°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 15°22′ · retrograde♃℞15°Saturn in Libra · 26°09′ · retrograde♄℞26°Uranus in Pisces · 21°18′♅21°Neptune in Leo · 17°56′♆17°Pluto in Cancer · 11°08′♇11°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMoontrineMars0.0° to 6.2° orb

    Torsten’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMoonsquareUranus0.1° to 6.5° orb

    Torsten’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune0.2° to 1.1° orb

    Torsten’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus1.5° to 2.2° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter2.3° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMercurysextileUranus2.3° to 3.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune2.5° to 2.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars2.6° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.2° to 3.7° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus4.4° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn4.5° to 5.0° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.5° to 5.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 23°25′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 20°48′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 20°51′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 2°46′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Mars 0.5°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 0.6°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 2.0°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 2.7°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 2.9°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 2.9°

Torsten’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Torsten’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Mars, Neptune, MercuryAn 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.

  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.2°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.4°
  • Venus biquintile Mars 1.4°
  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.4°

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Torsten’s cards

Computed from June 3, 1924. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Torsten’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q271421 (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 Festival della Scienza, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

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Quick answers about Torsten Nils Wiesel’s chart

How old is Torsten Nils Wiesel?
Torsten Nils Wiesel is 102 years old, born June 3, 1924 in Uppsala, Sweden.
What zodiac sign is Torsten Nils Wiesel?
Torsten Nils Wiesel is a Gemini: born June 3, 1924, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Torsten Nils Wiesel's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 3, 1924 birth.
What is Torsten Nils Wiesel's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Torsten Nils Wiesel's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Torsten Nils Wiesel's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Torsten Nils Wiesel's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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