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, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Walter
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
Walter ranked 16th among boys and 835th among girls in 1923, the year of this birth, with 12,433 American boys and 78 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.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on W (5) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
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
The record
What sets Walter apart
Yuri Gagarin (1934) and Oscar Isaac (1979) 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 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. Working below.
Where Walter sits
Six lines
Walter’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Walter Kohn
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vienna 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 Vienna that night
Computed for 48.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Talitha stood nearest the zenith over Vienna at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 48.2°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −41.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Vienna on any night.
The Moon, 50% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.
How unusual Walter's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Sun
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Sagittarius 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
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
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableUranustrinePluto4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.0° to 6.4° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.0° to 6.5° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.1° to 5.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 15°15′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 25°49′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 23°28′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 17°04′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 17°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Walter’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Walter’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Walter’s cards
Computed from March 9, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
9 · Healer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Walter’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q78510 (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 Jtk33, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Walter Kohn at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Walter Kohn.
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.
- 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 was Walter Kohn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Walter Kohn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
