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Wilhelm Wien

Wilhelm Wien (born January 13, 1864, Parusnoye, Russia; died 1928), was a German physicist. Wien is best remembered for Wien approximation, mass spectrometer and Wien's displacement law. Wien's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and Guthrie Lecture.

Wilhelm Wien’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Wilhelm Wien’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Diplomat

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Wilhelm in the U.S.?

#4133

US rank in 2025

~1,828

Americans share it since 1880

2014

its peak year

US name records start in 1880, 16 years after this birth. In that first year Wilhelm ranked 905th, with 6 American boys registered.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Wilhelm’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

1

Soul Urge · independence

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on W (5) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Wilhelm’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

The record

What sets Wilhelm apart

Orlando Bloom (1977) and Liam Hemsworth (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Wilhelm, according to the stars

Core essence

Wilhelm is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Wilhelm is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Wilhelm 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 Wilhelm 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 Wilhelm wants to be loved

Wilhelm wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Wilhelm and watch them fall for you again.

How Wilhelm creates

How Wilhelm makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Wilhelm creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Wilhelm 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 6 is the nurturer. Wilhelm 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Wilhelm has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Wilhelm's birth date. Working below.

Where Wilhelm sits

Six lines

Wilhelm’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Wilhelm

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Wilhelm

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Wilhelm

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Wilhelm

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Wilhelm

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Wilhelm

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Parusnoye on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Wilhelm’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 79.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 28.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Parusnoye that night

Computed for 54.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Parusnoye at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 10.8° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 108 catalog stars were up in all.

At 54.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −35.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 27% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 41° down.

How unusual Wilhelm's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Uranus

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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Wilhelm Wien in 15 seconds

Capricorn Sun

Plays the long game. Wins it.

Wilhelm Wien's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 13, 1864, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Water Pig

Generous to the last coin.

Wilhelm Wien was born on January 13, 1864, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

Wilhelm Wien's birth date, January 13, 1864, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Wilhelm’s chart

Wilhelm’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.1° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.3° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 0.8° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.6° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.6° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 1.9° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.2° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 2.3° orbSun in Capricorn · 22°34′☉22°Moon in Pisces · 20°16′☽20°Mercury in Aquarius · 10°39′☿10°Venus in Sagittarius · 8°42′♀8°Mars in Sagittarius · 19°28′♂19°Jupiter in Scorpio · 22°29′♃22°Saturn in Libra · 17°54′♄17°Uranus in Gemini · 21°53′ · retrograde♅℞21°Neptune in Aries · 3°33′♆3°Pluto in Taurus · 10°24′ · retrograde♇℞10°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Wilhelm’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Wilhelm’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn1.2° to 1.9° orb

    Wilhelm’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus1.6° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus2.0° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus3.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn4.2° to 5.2° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune4.6° to 5.7° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Wilhelm’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 7°44′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 18°38′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 4°54′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 20°44′

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 10°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.5°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 0.7°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 0.8°
  • Chiron square Venus 1.0°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 1.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.2°
  • Chiron sextile Pluto 2.7°

Wilhelm’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Wilhelm’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Uranus · Sun, Jupiter, UranusTwo 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 quincunx Uranus 0.6°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 0.7°
  • Sun quintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
  • Venus quincunx Pluto 1.7°

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Wilhelm’s cards

Computed from January 13, 1864. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Diplomat

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Wilhelm’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57068 (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 Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Wilhelm Wien.

Quick answers about Wilhelm Wien’s chart

What zodiac sign was Wilhelm Wien?
Wilhelm Wien was a Capricorn: born January 13, 1864, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Wilhelm Wien's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 13, 1864 birth.
What was Wilhelm Wien's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Wilhelm Wien's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Wilhelm Wien's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Wilhelm Wien's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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