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Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Pauli (born April 25, 1900, Vienna, Austria; died 1958), was a Physicist, Nobel prize winner. Pauli is best remembered for Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector, Pauli–Villars regularization and Pauli group. Pauli's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, professor and Max Planck Medal.

Wolfgang Pauli’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Wolfgang Pauli’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Guardian

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Wolfgang falls under that line for 1900. Its peak came in 2021, and 3,220 Americans have carried it since 1929.

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

3 · 2

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

White · Blush · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Wolfgang apart

Al Pacino (1940) and Guglielmo Marconi (1874) 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 the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Wolfgang is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Wolfgang 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 Wolfgang 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 Wolfgang wants to be loved

Wolfgang wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Wolfgang like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Wolfgang creates

How Wolfgang makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Wolfgang creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Wolfgang is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Wolfgang is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Wolfgang gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Wolfgang

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Wolfgang

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Wolfgang

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Wolfgang

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

PracticalVisionary
Wolfgang

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Wolfgang

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Wolfgang Pauli

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vienna 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 Vienna that night

Computed for 48.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Vienna was Phecda, in Ursa Major, 82.4° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 100 catalog stars were up in all.

From 48.2°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Vienna at all: they sit past the −41.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon down and 16% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Wolfgang's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Water planets · 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.

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The quick version

Taurus Sun

Try rushing a Taurus. Go on.

Wolfgang Pauli's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 25, 1900, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Metal Rat

Saw the opening before you did.

Wolfgang Pauli was born on April 25, 1900, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Wolfgang Pauli's birth date, April 25, 1900, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Wolfgang’s chart

Wolfgang’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.2° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.9° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.5° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.8° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.5° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.9° orbSun in Taurus · 4°46′☉4°Moon in Pisces · 12°46′☽12°Mercury in Aries · 7°51′☿7°Venus in Gemini · 20°14′♀20°Mars in Aries · 13°22′♂13°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 9°38′ · retrograde♃℞9°Saturn in Capricorn · 4°56′ · retrograde♄℞4°Uranus in Sagittarius · 11°52′ · retrograde♅℞11°Neptune in Gemini · 24°55′♆24°Pluto in Gemini · 15°15′♇15°

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

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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

  • stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Wolfgang’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarstrineUranus1.1° to 1.9° orb

    Wolfgang’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter1.2° to 2.4° orb

    Wolfgang’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssextilePluto1.5° to 2.3° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn2.3° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter3.3° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.4° to 4.6° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto3.4° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.2° to 5.2° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.5° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.3° to 5.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 24°39′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 10°09′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 10°29′ (moves 0.54° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 7°04′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 17°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Neptune 0.3°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 0.8°
  • Eros square Jupiter 0.9°
  • Eros square Uranus 1.4°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.9°
  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.1°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 2.3°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 2.3°

Wolfgang’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars7 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Wolfgang’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.

  • Mercury quintile Venus 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
  • Mars quintile Neptune 0.5°
  • Sun biquintile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 1.1°

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Wolfgang’s cards

Computed from April 25, 1900. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Wolfgang’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q65989 (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 Bettina Katzenstein, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Wolfgang Pauli 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 Pauli.

Quick answers about Wolfgang Pauli’s chart

What zodiac sign was Wolfgang Pauli?
Wolfgang Pauli was a Taurus: born April 25, 1900, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Wolfgang Pauli's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 25, 1900 birth.
What was Wolfgang Pauli's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Wolfgang Pauli's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Wolfgang Pauli's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Wolfgang Pauli's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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