Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn (born March 9, 1923, Vienna, Austria; died 2016), was an American physicist. Kohn is best remembered for density functional theory. Kohn's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art and National Medal of Science.
Walter Kohn’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Pig, with 
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Walter Kohn’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
9 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Walter, according to the stars
Core essence
Walter feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Walter is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Walter is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Walter needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
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 refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Walter 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: Walter 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Walter is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Walter is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Walter's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Walter sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
Walter Kohn's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 9, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Walter Kohn was born on March 9, 1923, which falls in a Water 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 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Walter Kohn's birth date, March 9, 1923, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Walter’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Walter Kohn's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Walter Kohn combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Walter’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Walter Kohn, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Sagittarius 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.
stableVenussquareMars0.0° to 0.4° orb
Walter’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMoonsquareUranus0.1° to 6.9° orb
Walter’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.6° to 1.6° orb
Walter’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.9° orb
Walter’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.9° orb
Walter’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.6° to 4.5° orb
Walter’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableUranustrinePluto4.6° to 4.7° orb
Walter’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.0° to 6.4° orb
Walter’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.0° to 6.5° orb
Walter’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupitertrineUranus5.1° to 5.2° orb
Walter’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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.
⚷ ChironAries 15°15′ (moves 0.05° 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: Walter may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 25°49′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Walter caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAquarius 23°28′ (moves 0.59° 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.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 17°04′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Walter is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Walter carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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 trine Neptune 0.7°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.7°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.8°
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. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 4 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Walter is read as tuned to what is not said.
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.
Yod onto Sun · Saturn, Neptune, SunTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.9°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Walter Kohn, 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 March 9, 1923, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Walter Kohn, 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 Q78510, 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 Jtk33, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Walter Kohn 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 Walter Kohn’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Walter Kohn?
- Walter Kohn was a Pisces: born March 9, 1923, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig.
- What was Walter Kohn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 9, 1923 birth.
- What time was Walter Kohn 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 Kohn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the March 9, 1923 birth date.
- What was Walter Kohn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 9, 1923 birth date.
- Where was Walter Kohn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Walter Kohn's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
