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, Chinese zodiac was Water Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Walter
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
Walter ranked 12th among boys and 1,073rd among girls in 1902, the year of this birth, with 1,858 American boys and 12 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Walter’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
22
Soul Urge · legacy
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on W (5) and closes on R (9).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Walter’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Walter apart
Mia Khalifa (1993) and Lee Hsien Loong (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Walter sits
Six lines
Walter’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Xiamen on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Xiamen that night
Computed for 24.48°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Xiamen at 9 p.m. that evening: Propus of Gemini, within 2.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 24.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 5% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.
How unusual Walter's chart is
Chart pattern score
67 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 2 unaspected planets · 2 planets at a critical degree
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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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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSuntrinePluto3.2° to 4.3° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.1° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune6.5° to 6.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.9° to 7.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 11°20′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 5°58′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 18°39′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 6°15′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Walter’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Walter’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Walter
Other physicists
- Felix Bloch1905
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck1899
- Eugene Paul Wigner1902
- Harold Urey1893
- Carl David Anderson1905
- Linus Pauling1901
Born in People's Republic of China
- Shing-Tung YauAmerican mathematician from Hong Kong
- Seiji OzawaJapanese orchestra conductor
- Wang DuluChinese wuxia author, creator of Crane Iron Pentalogy series
- Huang RulunChinese billionaire businessman (born 1951)
- He XiangjianChinese businessperson (1942-)
- Morris ChangTaiwanese businessman and electrical engineer (born 1931)
More charts like Walter’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Eric FonerAmerican historian (born 1943)
- Fred Albert ShannonAmerican historian
- Josh FriedmanAmerican screenwriter
Born in Tiger years
- John Patrick ShanleyAmerican writer
- Leonard D. WhiteAmerican historian
- Charles WuorinenAmerican composer
Also born on February 10
- Mia Khalifa1993
- Lee Hsien Loong1952
- Laura Dern1967
- Bob Iger1951
- Stephanie Beatriz1981
- Yara Shahidi2000
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Ross LynchAmerican actor and singer
- Isabela MercedAmerican actress and singer
- Li Ka-shingHong Kong billionaire and entrepreneur
Other Aquarius Tiger charts
- Tyler HuntleyAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Tristan WirfsAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Connor HeywardAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Jake CurhanAmerican football player
Other Evergreen Guardians
- Cristian RoldanAmerican soccer player
- Chris RichardsAmerican soccer player
- Luiz HenriqueBrazilian footballer (born 2001)
- Darian KinnardAmerican football player (born 1999)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Corazon AquinoPresident of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
- Margaret Atwood
- Eddie MurphyAmerican actor and comedian
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Walter’s cards
Computed from February 10, 1902. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q184577 (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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Walter Houser Brattain at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Walter Houser Brattain.
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.
- 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 was Walter Houser Brattain's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Walter Houser Brattain's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
