Ulrich Matthes
Ulrich Matthes (born May 9, 1959, Berlin, Germany), aged 67, is a German actor. Matthes is best known for Freunde. Matthes's honours include Berliner Kunstpreis, Deutscher Hörbuchpreis and DER FAUST Award.
Ulrich Matthes’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Ulrich Matthes’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
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Ulrich’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Ulrich, according to the stars
Core essence
Ulrich 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 Ulrich 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 Ulrich wants to be loved
Ulrich wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Ulrich like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Ulrich creates
How Ulrich makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Ulrich creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Ulrich is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Ulrich is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Ulrich 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 Ulrich's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Ulrich Matthes in 15 seconds
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Ulrich Matthes's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 9, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Ulrich Matthes was born on May 9, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Better with someone at their back.
Ulrich Matthes's birth date, May 9, 1959, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Ulrich’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ulrich Matthes' date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Ulrich Matthes combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Ulrich’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ulrich Matthes, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Taurus or 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.
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.
stableSunsextileMars1.2° to 1.6° orb
Ulrich’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.4° orb
Ulrich’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextilePluto2.5° to 3.6° orb
Ulrich’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquarePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
Ulrich’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° orb
Ulrich’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.7° to 4.1° orb
Ulrich’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.0° orb
Ulrich’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareUranus5.2° to 6.2° orb
Ulrich’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.8° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 1.3° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleVenustrineNeptuneorb from 6.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Ulrich’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°23′ (moves 0.02° 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 Ulrich making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 22°01′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Ulrich is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCancer 23°35′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Ulrich is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 27°47′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Ulrich needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 19°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Ulrich is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 0.9°
- Eros square Mercury 1.2°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.7°
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°).
Ulrich’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. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ulrich is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Ulrich’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.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.0°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.3°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ulrich Matthes, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Ulrich’s cards
Every card is computed from May 9, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ulrich Matthes, 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
Ulrich’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q63641, 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 Scott-Hendryk Dillan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ulrich Matthes at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Ulrich Matthes’s chart
- How old is Ulrich Matthes?
- Ulrich Matthes is 67 years old, born May 9, 1959 in Berlin, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Ulrich Matthes?
- Ulrich Matthes is a Taurus: born May 9, 1959, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- What is Ulrich Matthes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 9, 1959 birth.
- What time was Ulrich Matthes 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 Ulrich Matthes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the May 9, 1959 birth date.
- What is Ulrich Matthes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 9, 1959 birth date.
- Where is Ulrich Matthes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ulrich Matthes's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
