Wolfgang Paul
Wolfgang Paul (born August 10, 1913, Lorenzkirch, Germany; died 1993), was a German physicist. Paul is best remembered for quadrupole ion trap. Paul's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics.
Wolfgang Paul’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Wolfgang
Wolfgang Paul’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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 is in US records from 1929, but 1913 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2021.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Wolfgang’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on W (5) and closes on G (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 7: voice against analysis.
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
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Wolfgang apart
Kylie Jenner (1997) and Javier Zanetti (1973) 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 is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Wolfgang is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Wolfgang wants to be loved
Wolfgang 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. Wolfgang gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Wolfgang creates
How Wolfgang makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Wolfgang creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Wolfgang is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Wolfgang 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Wolfgang scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Paul
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lorenzkirch 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 Lorenzkirch that night
Computed for 51.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Eltanin stood nearest the zenith over Lorenzkirch at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.0° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
At 51.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Lorenzkirch at all: they sit past the −38.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 68% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 11° down.
How unusual Wolfgang's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Jupiter · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Wolfgang Paul's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 10, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Wolfgang Paul was born on August 10, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Wolfgang Paul's birth date, August 10, 1913, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Wolfgang’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Wolfgang Paul's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Wolfgang Paul combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Wolfgang’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 0.9° orb
Wolfgang’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.9° to 1.7° orb
Wolfgang’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.3° to 2.7° orb
Wolfgang’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineUranus2.5° to 3.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.4° to 4.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.8° to 4.9° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 6.1° to 19.2° depending on birth time
possibleMarsconjunctionSaturnorb from 7.6° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Wolfgang’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 13°56′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 21°43′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 8°01′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°05′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 18°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mars 0.0°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.5°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.1°
Wolfgang’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Wolfgang’s chart
Yod onto Jupiter · Mercury, Mars, JupiterTwo 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.
- Venus quincunx Uranus 0.1°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.0°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.5°
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Born in Ox years
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Wolfgang’s cards
Computed from August 10, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
5 · Explorer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Wolfgang’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57227 (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.
The same Wolfgang Paul at Wikipedia and nobelprize.org.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Wolfgang Paul.
Quick answers about Wolfgang Paul’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Wolfgang Paul?
- Wolfgang Paul was a Leo: born August 10, 1913, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Wolfgang Paul's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 10, 1913 birth.
- What was Wolfgang Paul's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Wolfgang Paul's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Wolfgang Paul's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Wolfgang Paul's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
