Wolfgang Ketterle
Wolfgang Ketterle (born October 21, 1957, Heidelberg, Germany), aged 69, 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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Wolfgang
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 1929
2021
its peak year
Wolfgang ranked 2,373rd in 1957, the year of this birth, with 13 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Wolfgang’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on W (5) and closes on G (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Wolfgang’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Wolfgang apart
Alfred Nobel (1833) and Benjamin Netanyahu (1949) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Wolfgang sits
Six lines
Wolfgang’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Wolfgang Ketterle
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Heidelberg 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 Heidelberg that night
Computed for 49.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Heidelberg at 9 p.m. that evening: Caph of Cassiopeia, within 16.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Heidelberg sits at 49.4°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −40.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Heidelberg on any night.
The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 35° down.
How unusual Wolfgang's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.5° to 2.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.0° to 2.5° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableSunsextilePluto3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.9° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 7.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 12°15′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 25°20′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 4°28′ (moves 0.76° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 10°43′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 16°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Wolfgang’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Wolfgang’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Wolfgang
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Born in Germany
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- Juliane KöhlerGerman actress
- Angela MerkelChancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021
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More charts like Wolfgang’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Margaret WiddemerAmerican poet and novelist
- Margo JeffersonAmerican writer and academic (born 1947)
- Wynton MarsalisAmerican jazz musician and educator
Born in Rooster years
- Felipe MassaBrazilian race car driver
- Paavo NurmiFinnish middle and long distance runner
- Sienna MillerBritish-American actress
Also born on October 21
- Alfred Nobel1833
- Benjamin Netanyahu1949
- Kim Kardashian1980
- Carrie Fisher1956
- Doja Cat1995
- Glen Powell1988
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Kunihiko KodairaJapanese mathematician
- Stanislav SmirnovRussian mathematician
- Maxim KontsevichRussian-born French mathematician and Fields Medallist
Other Libra Rooster charts
- Yves MontandFrench-Italian actor and singer
- Michael MadsenAmerican actor
- Mona SinghIndian actress
- Deborah KerrBritish actress
Other Radiant Strategists
- David ArquetteAmerican actor, director and professional wrestler
- Lindsay ArnoldAmerican professional Latin and ballroom dancer
- Warren BeattyAmerican actor and filmmaker
- Lo BosworthAmerican reality television personality
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Jane CampionNew Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer
- Jack DorseyAmerican software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
- Don BradmanAustralian cricketer
From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Wolfgang’s cards
Computed from October 21, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Wolfgang’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q76462 (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 Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Wolfgang Ketterle at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Wolfgang Ketterle.
Quick answers about Wolfgang Ketterle’s chart
- How old is Wolfgang Ketterle?
- Wolfgang Ketterle is 69 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.
- 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 is Wolfgang Ketterle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Wolfgang Ketterle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
