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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 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 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

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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Wolfgang sits

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Wolfgang’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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

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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Wolfgang’s chart

Wolfgang’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Wolfgang Pauli, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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′Moon in Pisces · 12°46′12°Mercury in Aries · 7°51′Venus in Gemini · 20°14′20°Mars in Aries · 13°22′13°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 9°38′ · retrogradeSaturn in Capricorn · 4°56′ · retrogradeUranus in Sagittarius · 11°52′ · retrograde11°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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Conjunction
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

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.

  • 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

    Wolfgang’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb

    Wolfgang’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn2.3° to 3.5° orb

    Wolfgang’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter3.3° to 4.2° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.4° to 4.6° orb

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

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto3.4° orb

    Wolfgang’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.2° to 5.2° orb

    Wolfgang’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.5° to 5.5° orb

    Wolfgang’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.3° to 5.7° orb

    Wolfgang’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

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

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.

  • ChironSagittarius 24°39′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Wolfgang building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.

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

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

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Wolfgang is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

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

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Wolfgang is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

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

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

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Wolfgang is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Wolfgang exacting with themselves first.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • 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°

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. 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

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Wolfgang is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Wolfgang Pauli, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Wolfgang’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

yang Metal

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

yang Metal

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Earth

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Wolfgang Pauli, 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 Q65989, 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 Bettina Katzenstein, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Wolfgang Pauli 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rat.
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 time was Wolfgang Pauli 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 was Wolfgang Pauli's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the April 25, 1900 birth date.
What was Wolfgang Pauli's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 25, 1900 birth date.
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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