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Bengt Ekerot

Bengt Ekerot (born February 8, 1920, Stockholm, Sweden; died 1971), was a Swedish actor and director.

Bengt Ekerot’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Bengt Ekerot’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Architect

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

What Bengt’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on B (2) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.

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

Bengt’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1920, 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 Bengt apart

Bengt Ekerot was 20 when the work began in 1940.

The record gives lung cancer as the cause, and Skogskyrkogården as the resting place.

The family line: married Margareta Hallin.

On Wikipedia the categories read Deaths from lung cancer in Sweden, Swedish film directors and Male actors from Stockholm.

Dmitri Mendeleev (1834) and James Dean (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Working from
1940
Cause of death
lung cancer
Buried at
Skogskyrkogården
Citizenship
Sweden
Languages
Swedish
Wikipedia editions
20

What the chart says

Bengt, according to the stars

Core essence

Bengt is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Bengt is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Bengt cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Bengt needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Bengt wants to be loved

Bengt wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Bengt you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Bengt creates

How Bengt makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Bengt creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Bengt is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Bengt is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Bengt runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Bengt's birth date. Working below.

Where Bengt sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Bengt

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Bengt

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

PrivateExpressive
Bengt

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Bengt

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

PracticalVisionary
Bengt

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Bengt

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 Bengt Ekerot

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.

Overhead at Stockholm at 9 p.m. that evening: Muscida of Ursa Major, within 15.0° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 109 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.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −30.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 78% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Stockholm, Sweden

The death is recorded at Stockholm, Stockholm Municipality in 1971.

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

How unusual Bengt's chart is

Chart pattern score

32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Bengt Ekerot in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Ideas first, people second.

Bengt Ekerot's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 8, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Metal Goat

Artist first, everything second.

Bengt Ekerot was born on February 8, 1920, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 4

Structure is comfort.

Bengt Ekerot's birth date, February 8, 1920, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Bengt’s chart

Bengt’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.1° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.7° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 2° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.3° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.4° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.5° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.4° orbSun in Aquarius · 18°24′☉18°Moon in Libra · 10°05′☽10°Mercury in Aquarius · 20°22′☿20°Venus in Capricorn · 12°05′♀12°Mars in Scorpio · 2°37′♂2°Jupiter in Leo · 12°27′ · retrograde♃℞12°Saturn in Virgo · 9°49′ · retrograde♄℞9°Uranus in Pisces · 0°55′♅0°Neptune in Leo · 9°56′ · retrograde♆℞9°Pluto in Cancer · 5°59′ · retrograde♇℞5°

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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.6° to 2.3° orb

    Bengt’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn1.6° to 2.9° orb

    Bengt’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarstrineUranus1.6° to 1.8° orb

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

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto3.2° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto5.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter5.4° to 6.5° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto5.5° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 6.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 3°49′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 9°27′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 24°58′ (moves 0.69° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 11°59′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 12°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.1°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 0.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.0°
  • Chiron square Pluto 2.2°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.4°
  • Ceres square Venus 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.6°

Bengt’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Bengt’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mars, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

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

  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.4°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 2.1°

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Bengt’s cards

Computed from February 8, 1920. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Death

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Bengt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q792878 (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 Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bengt Ekerot.

Quick answers about Bengt Ekerot’s chart

What zodiac sign was Bengt Ekerot?
Bengt Ekerot was an Aquarius: born February 8, 1920, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Bengt Ekerot's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 8, 1920 birth.
What was Bengt Ekerot's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Bengt Ekerot's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Bengt Ekerot's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Bengt Ekerot's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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