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Alexander Skarsgård

Alexander Skarsgård (born August 25, 1976, Vällingby församling, Sweden), aged 50, is a Swedish actor. Skarsgård is best known for Murderbot, The Northman and Succession. Skarsgård's honours include Golden Globe Awards, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and Satellite Award for Best Cast – Television Series.

Alexander Skarsgård’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Alexander Skarsgård’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Healer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Alexander in the U.S.?

#30

US rank in 2025

~740,668

Americans share it since 1880

1993

its peak year

In 1976, 2,443 American boys and 33 girls were registered Alexander — 107th among boys and 2,439th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Alexander’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

5

Soul Urge · freedom

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Alexander’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Lilac · Flame orange

The record

What sets Alexander apart

Succession, Big Little Lies and Murderbot. That is the work the name is attached to.

The schooling ran through Marymount Manhattan College and Leeds Beckett University.

Alexander Skarsgård was 8 when the work began in 1984.

On the family side, Alexander Skarsgård was born to My Skarsgård and Stellan Skarsgård.

Tim Burton (1958) and Claudia Schiffer (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Succession, Big Little Lies and Murderbot
Educated at
Marymount Manhattan College, Leeds Beckett University and Södra Latin
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (2017) and Satellite Award for Best Cast, Television Series (2009)
Nominated for
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Working from
1984
Wikipedia editions
56

What the chart says

Alexander, according to the stars

Core essence

Alexander notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Alexander is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Alexander wants to be loved

Alexander wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Alexander and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Alexander creates

How Alexander makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Alexander creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Alexander is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Alexander is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

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. Alexander fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Alexander's birth date. Working below.

Where Alexander sits

Six lines

Alexander’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Alexander

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alexander

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Alexander

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alexander

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

PracticalVisionary
Alexander

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alexander

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Alexander Skarsgård

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vällingby församling on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Alexander’s birth-night reference starGrumiumwarm orange · DracoGrumium, in Draco. A warm orange star, 77.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Grumium →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 18.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Vällingby församling that night

Computed for 59.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Vällingby församling was Grumium, in Draco, 77.3° up.

Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 59.4°N, Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −30.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Vällingby församling on any night.

Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.

How unusual Alexander's chart is

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Virgo · 3 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet

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

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Alexander Skarsgård's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Fire Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Alexander Skarsgård was born on August 25, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 2

Quiet power, real power.

Alexander Skarsgård's birth date, August 25, 1976, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Alexander’s chart

Alexander’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 0° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.6° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.2° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.2° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.5° orbSun in Virgo · 2°22′☉2°Moon in Virgo · 2°21′☽2°Mercury in Virgo · 29°36′☿29°Venus in Virgo · 21°03′♀21°Mars in Libra · 0°47′♂0°Jupiter in Gemini · 0°10′♃0°Saturn in Leo · 9°58′♄9°Uranus in Scorpio · 3°54′♅3°Neptune in Sagittarius · 11°12′♆11°Pluto in Libra · 10°07′♇10°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
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

  • stableSunconjunctionMoon0.0° to 6.7° orb

    Alexander’s core identity and feelings act as one.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter0.1° to 1.0° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb

    Alexander’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter0.3° to 0.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.0° to 1.4° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus1.1° to 2.0° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter1.7° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus6.0° to 6.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 1°44′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 16°49′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 15°35′ (moves 0.90° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 15°45′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 3°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Sun 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.8°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.2°

Alexander’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Alexander’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

  • Mercury quintile Neptune 0.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.6°

Alexander’s family here

2 relatives of Alexander Skarsgård also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained

Alexander’s cards

Computed from August 25, 1976. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alexander’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310637 (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 FiesolanaNYC, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alexander Skarsgård at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alexander Skarsgård.

Quick answers about Alexander Skarsgård’s chart

How old is Alexander Skarsgård?
Alexander Skarsgård is 50 years old, born August 25, 1976 in Vällingby församling, Sweden.
What zodiac sign is Alexander Skarsgård?
Alexander Skarsgård is a Virgo: born August 25, 1976, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Alexander Skarsgård's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1976 birth.
What is Alexander Skarsgård's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Alexander Skarsgård's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Alexander Skarsgård's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Alexander Skarsgård's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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