Wolfgang Ketterle
Wolfgang Ketterle (born October 21, 1957, Heidelberg, Germany), aged 68, is a German physicist. Ketterle's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg and Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Wolfgang Ketterle’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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Wolfgang Ketterle’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Wolfgang in the U.S.?
#1519
US rank in 2025
~3,220
Americans share it since 1880
2021
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Wolfgang’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Wolfgang, according to the stars
Core essence
Wolfgang makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Wolfgang is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Wolfgang wants to be loved
Wolfgang 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 Wolfgang and watch them fall for you again.
How Wolfgang creates
How Wolfgang makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Wolfgang creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Wolfgang is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Wolfgang is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Wolfgang fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Wolfgang's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Wolfgang sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Wolfgang Ketterle at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Wolfgang Ketterle's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 21, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Wolfgang Ketterle was born on October 21, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Wolfgang Ketterle's birth date, October 21, 1957, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Wolfgang’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Wolfgang Ketterle's date-only chart is Saturn trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Wolfgang Ketterle combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Wolfgang’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Wolfgang Ketterle, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb
Wolfgang’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
Wolfgang’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn1.0° to 2.1° orb
Wolfgang’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineUranus1.0° to 2.1° orb
Wolfgang’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.5° to 2.2° orb
Wolfgang’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.0° to 2.5° orb
Wolfgang’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.2° to 3.1° orb
Wolfgang’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableSunsextilePluto3.6° to 4.6° orb
Wolfgang’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.9° to 4.9° orb
Wolfgang’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.1° to 4.2° orb
Wolfgang’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb
Wolfgang’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 7.0° orb
Wolfgang’s mind and imagination act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Wolfgang’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 12°15′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Wolfgang making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCancer 25°20′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Wolfgang is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosScorpio 4°28′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Wolfgang is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 10°43′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Wolfgang feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 16°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Wolfgang is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Ceres square Mercury 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.2°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 2.3°
- Ceres square Sun 2.4°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.6°
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°).
Wolfgang’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. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Wolfgang is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Wolfgang’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.
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.4°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.4°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Wolfgang Ketterle, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Wolfgang’s cards
Every card is computed from October 21, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Wolfgang Ketterle, 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
Wolfgang’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76462, 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 Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Wolfgang Ketterle 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 Wolfgang Ketterle’s chart
- How old is Wolfgang Ketterle?
- Wolfgang Ketterle is 68 years old, born October 21, 1957 in Heidelberg, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Wolfgang Ketterle?
- Wolfgang Ketterle is a Libra: born October 21, 1957, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster.
- What is Wolfgang Ketterle's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 21, 1957 birth.
- What time was Wolfgang Ketterle 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 is Wolfgang Ketterle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 21, 1957 birth date.
- What is Wolfgang Ketterle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 21, 1957 birth date.
- Where is Wolfgang Ketterle's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Wolfgang Ketterle's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
