Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (born July 20, 1864, Folkärna, Sweden; died 1931), was a Swedish poet. Karlfeldt served as Swedish Academy permanent secretary and seat 11 of the Swedish Academy. Karlfeldt's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature and Samfundet De Nio's Grand Prize.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt’s zodiac sign was Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rat, with 
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Erik Axel Karlfeldt’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
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Erik’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Erik, according to the stars
Core essence
Erik feels the room before entering it. The core of Erik is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Erik, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Erik needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Erik needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Erik wants to be loved
Erik wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Erik gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Erik creates
How Erik 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. Erik 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: Erik 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Erik is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Erik leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Erik 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 Erik's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Erik sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 20, 1864, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Wood Rat
Wood RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt was born on July 20, 1864, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt's birth date, July 20, 1864, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Erik’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Erik Axel Karlfeldt's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Erik’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Erik Axel Karlfeldt, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° Aquarius 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.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.4° to 0.7° orb
Erik’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.5° to 3.3° orb
Erik’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.9° to 4.0° orb
Erik’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune4.1° orb
Erik’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.6° orb
Erik’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto5.0° to 5.7° orb
Erik’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 5.0° to 20.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Erik’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 ℞Pisces 14°34′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Erik absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAries 22°59′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Erik looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosLibra 11°55′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Erik is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaCancer 8°49′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Erik is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 1°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Erik exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.5°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.4°
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°).
Erik’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. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Erik is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Erik’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Erik Axel Karlfeldt, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Erik’s cards
Every card is computed from July 20, 1864, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Erik Axel Karlfeldt, 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
Erik’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q134641, 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 Anders Zorn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Erik Axel Karlfeldt at Wikipedia 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 Erik Axel Karlfeldt’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Erik Axel Karlfeldt?
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt was a Cancer: born July 20, 1864, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat.
- What was Erik Axel Karlfeldt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 20, 1864 birth.
- What time was Erik Axel Karlfeldt 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 Erik Axel Karlfeldt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 20, 1864 birth date.
- What was Erik Axel Karlfeldt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 20, 1864 birth date.
- Where was Erik Axel Karlfeldt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Erik Axel Karlfeldt's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
