Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain (born February 10, 1902, Xiamen, China; died 1987), was an American physicist. Brattain's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Inventors Hall of Fame and Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award.
Walter Houser Brattain’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Tiger, with 
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Walter Houser Brattain’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Walter in the U.S.?
#252
US rank in 2025
~634,804
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Walter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Walter, according to the stars
Core essence
Walter is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Walter is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Walter is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Walter needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Walter wants to be loved
Walter wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Walter be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Walter creates
How Walter makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Walter builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Walter is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Walter is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Walter slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Walter's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Walter Houser Brattain's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 10, 1902, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Water Tiger
Water TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Walter Houser Brattain was born on February 10, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Walter Houser Brattain's birth date, February 10, 1902, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Walter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Walter Houser Brattain's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Walter Houser Brattain combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Walter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Walter Houser Brattain, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Pisces 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.
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Walter’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.4° to 0.9° orb
Walter’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineNeptune1.6° to 2.4° orb
Walter’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.0° to 3.3° orb
Walter’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSuntrinePluto3.2° to 4.3° orb
Walter’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionPluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
Walter’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.1° to 4.9° orb
Walter’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineNeptune6.5° to 6.6° orb
Walter’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.9° to 7.5° orb
Walter’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 3.1° to 15.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Walter’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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 11°20′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Walter is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresTaurus 5°58′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Walter is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAquarius 18°39′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Walter is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaAries 6°15′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Walter feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°11′ (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 Walter 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.
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.7°
- Eros conjunction Sun 1.8°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.8°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.9°
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°).
Walter’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. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Walter is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Walter’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.
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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 Jupiter 0.2°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Mars quintile Uranus 1.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.9°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Walter Houser Brattain, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Walter’s cards
Every card is computed from February 10, 1902, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Walter Houser Brattain, 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
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q184577, 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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Walter Houser Brattain at Wikipedia 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 Walter Houser Brattain’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Walter Houser Brattain?
- Walter Houser Brattain was an Aquarius: born February 10, 1902, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger.
- What was Walter Houser Brattain's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 10, 1902 birth.
- What time was Walter Houser Brattain 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 was Walter Houser Brattain's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the February 10, 1902 birth date.
- What was Walter Houser Brattain's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 10, 1902 birth date.
- Where was Walter Houser Brattain's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Walter Houser Brattain's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
