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Anders Holch Povlsen

Anders Holch Povlsen (born November 4, 1972, Mikladalur, Faroe Islands), aged 54, is a Danish businessman.

Anders Holch Povlsen’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Anders Holch Povlsen’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#984

US rank in 2025

~8,031

Americans share it since 1912

2014

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1972, Anders came 1,821st, carried by 24 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Anders’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

5

Soul Urge · freedom

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on A (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Anders’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus

Gold · Crimson · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Anders apart

Anglia Ruskin University and Berlin School of Economics and Law shaped the training.

Anders Holch Povlsen was born to Merete Bech Povlsen and Troels Holch Povlsen.

The same date carries Yiyun Li and Luís Figo. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Anglia Ruskin University and Berlin School of Economics and Law
Citizenship
Kingdom of Denmark
Languages
English and Danish
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Anders, according to the stars

Core essence

Anders does not do surface. The core of Anders is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Anders is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Anders wants to be loved

Anders wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Anders gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Anders creates

How Anders 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. Anders 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: Anders 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Anders is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

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

Computed from Anders's birth date. Working below.

Where Anders sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Anders

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Anders

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

PrivateExpressive
Anders

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Anders

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Anders

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Anders Holch Povlsen

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

Anders’s birth-night reference starCaphyellow-white · CassiopeiaCaph, in Cassiopeia. A yellow-white star, 84.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Caph →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 41.2° 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 Mikladalur that night

Computed for 62.34°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Caph stood nearest the zenith over Mikladalur at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.3° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 97 catalog stars were up in all.

From 62.3°N, Vega, Capella, Pollux, Deneb and Castor never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −27.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Fomalhaut, Mimosa, Toliman and Adhara were never visible from Mikladalur on any night.

The Moon was at new moon, 2% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 32° down.

How unusual Anders's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Libra · 1 unaspected planet · 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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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

Anders Holch Povlsen's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 4, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Water Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Anders Holch Povlsen was born on November 4, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

Anders Holch Povlsen's birth date, November 4, 1972, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Anders’s chart

Anders’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.2° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.2° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.4° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.2° orbSun in Scorpio · 12°10′☉12°Moon in Libra · 25°06′☽25°Mercury in Sagittarius · 5°20′☿5°Venus in Libra · 5°32′♀5°Mars in Libra · 22°28′♂22°Jupiter in Capricorn · 5°35′♃5°Saturn in Gemini · 19°38′ · retrograde♄℞19°Uranus in Libra · 20°10′♅20°Neptune in Sagittarius · 4°09′♆4°Pluto in Libra · 3°21′♇3°

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

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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

  • stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Anders’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.1° to 0.3° orb

    Anders’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Anders’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb

  • stableVenussextileNeptune0.8° to 2.0° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto1.5° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.6° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus2.0° to 2.6° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.1° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn2.5° to 3.2° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air6 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°54′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 29°16′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 24°26′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 11°11′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 28°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Mars 2.0°

Anders’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Anders’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Venus, Mars, Uranus, PlutoThree 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 semi-sextile Jupiter 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.2°
  • Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.0°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
  • Sun biquintile Saturn 1.5°

Born the same day as Anders

2 other people here were born on November 4, 1972, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Mikladalur, at 62.3°N, Vega, Capella, Pollux, Deneb and Castor are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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Anders’s cards

Computed from November 4, 1972. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Anders’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19667535 (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.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anders Holch Povlsen.

Quick answers about Anders Holch Povlsen’s chart

How old is Anders Holch Povlsen?
Anders Holch Povlsen is 54 years old, born November 4, 1972 in Mikladalur, Faroe Islands.
What zodiac sign is Anders Holch Povlsen?
Anders Holch Povlsen is a Scorpio: born November 4, 1972, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Anders Holch Povlsen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 4, 1972 birth.
What is Anders Holch Povlsen's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Anders Holch Povlsen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Anders Holch Povlsen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Anders Holch Povlsen's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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