Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld (born July 29, 1905, Jönköping, Sweden; died 1961), was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. Hammarskjöld served as seat 17 of the Swedish Academy and Minister of Foreign Trade. Hammarskjöld's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star and Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog.
Dag Hammarskjöld’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Snake, with 
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Dag Hammarskjöld’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
Dag’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Dag, according to the stars
Core essence
Dag is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Dag is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Dag wants to be loved
Dag wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Dag like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Dag creates
How Dag 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. Dag 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: Dag 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Dag is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Dag 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 Dag's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Dag sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunThe room rearranges itself.
Dag Hammarskjöld's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 29, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Dag Hammarskjöld was born on July 29, 1905, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Dag Hammarskjöld's birth date, July 29, 1905, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Dag’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dag Hammarskjöld's date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Dag Hammarskjöld combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Dag’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Dag Hammarskjöld, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableJupitersquareSaturn0.0° to 0.2° orb
Dag’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMoontrineSaturn0.1° to 6.9° orb
Dag’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMoonoppositionUranus0.1° to 7.3° orb
Dag’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.2° to 1.3° orb
Dag’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb
Dag’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.6° to 1.6° orb
Dag’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.6° to 1.8° orb
Dag’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.0° to 2.2° orb
Dag’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.8° to 4.6° orb
Dag’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.8° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 2.9° to 16.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Dag’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 3°53′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Dag making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 18°18′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Dag is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 15°43′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Dag is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 2°56′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Dag carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 21°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Dag carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres trine Mars 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.6°
- Chiron opposition Sun 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.5°
- Eros square Mars 2.7°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.7°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Dag’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Dag is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Dag’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Mercury quintile Venus 0.9°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dag Hammarskjöld, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Dag
Stanley Kunitz was born on July 29, 1905 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Dag’s cards
Every card is computed from July 29, 1905, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Dag Hammarskjöld, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Dag’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1267, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Dag Hammarskjöld at Wikipedia, daghammarskjold.se, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Dag Hammarskjöld’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Dag Hammarskjöld?
- Dag Hammarskjöld was a Leo: born July 29, 1905, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Snake.
- What was Dag Hammarskjöld's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 29, 1905 birth.
- What time was Dag Hammarskjöld born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Dag Hammarskjöld's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the July 29, 1905 birth date.
- What was Dag Hammarskjöld's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 29, 1905 birth date.
- Where was Dag Hammarskjöld's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Dag Hammarskjöld's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
