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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Erik
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.
How common is the name Erik in the U.S.?
#546
US rank in 2025
~158,126
Americans share it since 1911
1980
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Erik falls under that line for 1880. Its peak came in 1980, and 158,126 Americans have carried it since 1911.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Erik’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on K (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Erik’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Erik apart
Gregor Mendel (1822) and Gisele Bündchen (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Erik sits
Six lines
Erik’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Folkärna 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 Folkärna that night
Computed for 60.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Folkärna at 9 p.m. that evening: Grumium of Draco, within 6.6° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
Folkärna sits at 60.2°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 −29.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 96% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 1° below the horizon.
How unusual Erik's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° Aquarius 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
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
stableJupiteroppositionPluto4.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto5.0° to 5.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°34′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 22°59′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 11°55′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 8°49′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 1°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.5°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.0°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.4°
Erik’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Erik’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.
- 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°
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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
Computed from July 20, 1864. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Erik’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q134641 (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 Anders Zorn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Erik Axel Karlfeldt at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Erik Axel Karlfeldt.
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.
- 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 was Erik Axel Karlfeldt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Erik Axel Karlfeldt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
