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Avicii

Avicii (born September 8, 1989, Stockholm, Sweden; died 2018), was a Swedish electronic music producer. Best-known releases include True, Stories and TIM. Avicii's honours include MTV Europe Music Awards, American Music Awards and World Music Awards.

Avicii’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Avicii’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Storyteller

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

Avicii’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1989, 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 Avicii apart

Avicii was taught at Östra Real.

Avicii was 17 when the work began in 2006.

Avicii lies at Hedvig Eleonora Church.

On the family side, Avicii was born to Anki Lidén and Klas Bergling.

Wikipedia files Avicii under Buddhism in music, Swedish male songwriters and DJs from Stockholm.

Bernie Sanders (1941) and Pink (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Östra Real
Working from
2006
Buried at
Hedvig Eleonora Church
Citizenship
Sweden
Languages
English and Swedish
Wikipedia editions
89

What the chart says

Avicii, according to the stars

Core essence

Avicii 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 Avicii is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Avicii is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Avicii needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Avicii wants to be loved

Avicii 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. Avicii gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Avicii creates

How Avicii makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Avicii creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Avicii is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Avicii is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Avicii channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Avicii's birth date. Working below.

Where Avicii sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Avicii

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Avicii

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

PrivateExpressive
Avicii

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Avicii

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

PracticalVisionary
Avicii

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Avicii

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Avicii

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

Computed for 59.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Grumium stood nearest the zenith over Stockholm at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.9° above the horizon in Draco.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.

Stockholm sits at 59.3°N, high enough that Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Stockholm at all: they sit past the −30.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 54% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 11° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Stockholm, Sweden

The death is recorded at Muscat, Muscat Governorate in 2018.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Avicii: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Avicii's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mercury · 1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets

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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Avicii at a glance

Virgo Sun

Standards nobody else can meet.

Avicii's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 8, 1989, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Earth Snake

Private by design.

Avicii was born on September 8, 1989, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Avicii's birth date, September 8, 1989, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Avicii’s chart

Avicii’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Moon · Square, 0.1° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.3° orbJupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.3° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.3° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.7° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.7° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3° orbSun in Virgo · 15°44′☉15°Moon in Sagittarius · 15°49′☽15°Mercury in Libra · 9°59′☿9°Venus in Libra · 25°13′♀25°Mars in Virgo · 22°47′♂22°Jupiter in Cancer · 6°59′♃6°Saturn in Capricorn · 7°18′ · retrograde♄℞7°Uranus in Capricorn · 1°20′ · retrograde♅℞1°Neptune in Capricorn · 9°39′ · retrograde♆℞9°Pluto in Scorpio · 12°59′♇12°

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

  • stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 5.8° orb

    Avicii’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune0.1° to 0.5° orb

    Avicii’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Avicii’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunsextilePluto2.3° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune2.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn2.5° to 2.8° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.6° to 2.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter2.9° to 3.1° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune5.6° to 6.6° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus5.6° to 5.7° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto5.9° to 6.1° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

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

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 14°57′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 26°49′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 12°38′ (moves 0.64° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 15°24′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 23°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Sun 0.3°
  • Eros conjunction Pluto 0.4°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 1.5°
  • Ceres trine Venus 1.6°
  • Chiron trine Pluto 2.0°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 3.0°

Avicii’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Avicii’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Neptune, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus quintile Saturn 0.1°

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Famous people with Life Path 8

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  • John GavinAmerican film actor and former Ambassador to Mexico
Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?

Avicii’s cards

Computed from September 8, 1989. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Avicii’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q505476 (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 The Perfect World Foundation, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Avicii at Wikipedia, avicii.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Avicii.

Quick answers about Avicii’s chart

What zodiac sign was Avicii?
Avicii was a Virgo: born September 8, 1989, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Avicii's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 8, 1989 birth.
What was Avicii's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Avicii's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Avicii's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Avicii's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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