Bengt I. Samuelsson
Bengt I. Samuelsson (born May 21, 1934, Halmstad, Sweden; died 2024), was a Swedish biochemist. Samuelsson's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Heinrich Wieland Prize and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Bengt I. Samuelsson’s zodiac sign was Taurus or Gemini (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Bengt
What Bengt’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on B (2) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive 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
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1934, 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
The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize came in 1975, when Bengt I. Samuelsson was 41.
Bengt I. Samuelsson was taught at Stockholm University and Lund University.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Halmstad, Stockholm University alumni and Academic staff of the Karolinska Institute.
Andrei Sakharov (1921) and The Notorious B.I.G. (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Stockholm University, Lund University and Karolinska Institutet
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1982), Heinrich Wieland Prize (1981) and Canada Gairdner International Award (1981)
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Languages
- English and Swedish
- Wikipedia editions
- 50
What the chart says
Bengt, according to the stars
How Bengt wants to be loved
Bengt wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Bengt creates
How Bengt makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Bengt creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Bengt is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Bengt 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Bengt is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Bengt's birth date. Working below.
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The sky over Halmstad that night
Computed for 56.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alioth stood nearest the zenith over Halmstad at 9 p.m. that evening, 89.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 56.7°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Nothing below −33.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Halmstad on any night.
Sun 3° below the horizon, Moon up and 52% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Halmstad, Sweden
The death is recorded at Mölle, Höganäs Municipality in 2024.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Bengt I. Samuelsson: 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
35 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · 2 planets 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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Taurus or Gemini Sun
Bengt I. Samuelsson was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Bengt I. Samuelsson was born on May 21, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Bengt I. Samuelsson's birth date, May 21, 1934, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Bengt’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Bengt I. Samuelsson's date-only chart is Mercury square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
Bengt’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.0° to 6.2° orb
Bengt’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.0° to 1.1° orb
Bengt’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.3° to 2.2° orb
Bengt’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.3° orb
stableMarssextilePluto1.4° to 2.1° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter2.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.3° to 5.4° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.9° to 7.0° orb
stableUranussquarePluto6.3° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.9° to 12.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 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.
⚷ ChironGemini 3°54′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 0°25′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 3°22′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 0°16′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 23°27′ (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 conjunction Pluto 0.5°
- Hygiea square Sun 0.6°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.4°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.5°
Bengt’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Bengt’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.0°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
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Bengt’s cards
Computed from May 21, 1934. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Bengt’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295768 (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.
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The same Bengt I. Samuelsson at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Bengt I. Samuelsson.
Quick answers about Bengt I. Samuelsson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Bengt I. Samuelsson?
- Bengt I. Samuelsson was born on a day when the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Bengt I. Samuelsson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 21, 1934 birth.
- What was Bengt I. Samuelsson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Bengt I. Samuelsson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Bengt I. Samuelsson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Bengt I. Samuelsson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
