Erik Selin
Erik Selin (born August 5, 1967, Gothenburg, Sweden), aged 59, is a Swedish billionaire property developer, and CEO.
Erik Selin’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Erik
Erik Selin’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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
In 1967, 2,250 American boys and 12 girls were registered Erik — 133rd among boys and 3,903rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
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
1
Soul Urge · independence
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on E (5) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
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
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
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 1967, 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 Erik apart
Reid Hoffman shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Erik, according to the stars
Core essence
Erik is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Erik 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 Erik wants to be loved
Erik wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Erik and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Erik creates
How Erik makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Erik creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Erik 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Erik is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Erik 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 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 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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Selin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Gothenburg 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 Gothenburg that night
Computed for 57.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Grumium stood nearest the zenith over Gothenburg at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.4° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
From 57.7°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −32.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 4° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Gothenburg, Sweden
- Lives in
- Gothenburg
Wikidata records Gothenburg as Erik Selin's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Erik Selin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Erik's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air planets
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 →Erik Selin at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Erik Selin's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 5, 1967, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Erik Selin was born on August 5, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Erik Selin's birth date, August 5, 1967, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Erik’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Erik Selin's date-only chart is Sun trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Erik Selin combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Erik’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Cancer or Leo 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
stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb
Erik’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranussextileNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
Erik’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.5° to 2.9° orb
Erik’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter2.1° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune2.1° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.3° to 2.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.1° orb
stableSunsquareMars3.7° to 4.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter6.2° to 6.5° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.7° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Erik’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 29°22′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 21°26′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 21°19′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 3°06′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 24°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Neptune 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 0.2°
- Eros opposition Neptune 0.3°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.9°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.2°
Erik’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 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.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.4°
Born the same day as Erik
Reid Hoffman was born on August 5, 1967 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Gothenburg, at 57.7°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Goat years
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- Neil Armstrong1930
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Caitlyn JennerAmerican media personality and retired decathlete
- Lakshmi MittalIndian steel magnate
- Adam DriverAmerican actor
Other Leo Goat charts
- El JonesCanadian journalist, professor, activist
- Edward G. HillAmerican lawyer and poet from Mississippi
- William GoldmanAmerican novelist, screenwriter and playwright
- Peter HyamsAmerican film director, screenwriter and cinematographer
Other Gilded Lightkeepers
- Artur BeterbievRussian boxer
- Naoya InoueJapanese professional boxer
- Anna CathcartCanadian actress
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Famous people with Life Path 9
- Lillian GishAmerican actor, actress, motion picture producers and director, screenwriter
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Erik’s cards
Computed from August 5, 1967. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
9 · Healer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Erik’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6172327 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Erik Selin.
Quick answers about Erik Selin’s chart
- How old is Erik Selin?
- Erik Selin is 59 years old, born August 5, 1967 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- What zodiac sign is Erik Selin?
- Erik Selin is a Leo: born August 5, 1967, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Erik Selin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 5, 1967 birth.
- What is Erik Selin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Erik Selin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Erik Selin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Erik Selin's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
