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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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 1880

2009

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Torsten’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Torsten sits

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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.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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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. 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 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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

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. 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 Torsten’s chart

Torsten’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Torsten Nils Wiesel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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′ · retrograde15°Saturn in Libra · 26°09′ · retrograde26°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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Torsten’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter2.3° to 3.3° orb

    Torsten’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus2.3° to 3.2° orb

    Torsten’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune2.5° to 2.7° orb

    Torsten’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysquareMars2.6° to 3.0° orb

    Torsten’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.2° to 3.7° orb

    Torsten’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenustrineUranus4.4° to 4.6° orb

    Torsten’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn4.5° to 5.0° orb

    Torsten’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.5° to 5.7° orb

    Torsten’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

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

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.

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

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Torsten may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

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

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

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Torsten looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

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

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Torsten is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

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

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

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Torsten is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Torsten that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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°).

Torsten’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. 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

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Torsten 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 Torsten’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, 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 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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Torsten Nils Wiesel, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Torsten’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Tower

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The Tidal Seeker

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

yang Wood

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

yin Earth

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Water

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Torsten Nils Wiesel, 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

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

The same Torsten Nils Wiesel at Wikipedia.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat.
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 time was Torsten Nils Wiesel 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 Torsten Nils Wiesel's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the June 3, 1924 birth date.
What is Torsten Nils Wiesel's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 3, 1924 birth date.
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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