Willem Einthoven
Willem Einthoven (born May 21, 1860, Semarang, Indonesia; died 1927), was a Dutch physiologist. Einthoven served as rector magnificus of Leiden University. Einthoven's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Inventors Hall of Fame and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Willem Einthoven’s zodiac sign was Taurus or Gemini (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Willem
How common is the name Willem in the U.S.?
#2601
US rank in 2025
~2,840
Americans share it since 1916
2003
its peak year
US records hold Willem from 1916 onward, though not for 1880 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2003 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Willem’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
Willem’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
—
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Your planetary stone, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Silver
The record
What sets Willem apart
Andrei Sakharov (1921) and The Notorious B.I.G. (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Willem, according to the stars
How Willem wants to be loved
Willem wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Willem gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Willem creates
How Willem makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Willem creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Willem is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Willem is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Willem does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Willem's birth date. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Semarang 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 Semarang that night
Computed for 6.99°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Spica stood nearest the zenith over Semarang at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.3° above the horizon in Virgo.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest.
Semarang sits at 7.0°S, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.
How unusual Willem's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Taurus or Gemini Sun
Willem Einthoven was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Willem Einthoven was born on May 21, 1860, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Willem Einthoven's birth date, May 21, 1860, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Willem’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Willem Einthoven's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
Willem’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextileNeptune0.9° to 1.8° orb
Willem’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 3.2° orb
Willem’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.6° to 2.9° orb
Willem’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto3.1° to 4.8° orb
stableSuntrineMars3.8° to 4.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus6.6° to 7.5° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.6° to 6.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter6.7° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Willem’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°38′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 10°42′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 27°08′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 14°32′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 12°30′ (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 sextile Mercury 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.6°
- Eros trine Mars 0.9°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.7°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 2.1°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.2°
- Chiron square Sun 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.7°
Willem’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
in its own sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Willem’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.1°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.6°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.5°
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on May 21
- Andrei Sakharov1921
- The Notorious B.I.G.1972
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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- Arnold VoslooSouth African actor
Famous people with Life Path 5
- David HasselhoffAmerican actor, singer, producer, and businessman (born 1952)
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Willem’s cards
Computed from May 21, 1860. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Willem’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189488 (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.
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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 Willem Einthoven.
Quick answers about Willem Einthoven’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Willem Einthoven?
- Willem Einthoven was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Willem Einthoven's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 21, 1860 birth.
- What was Willem Einthoven's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Willem Einthoven's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Willem Einthoven's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Willem Einthoven's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
