Gunnar Björnstrand
Gunnar Björnstrand (born November 13, 1909, Stockholm, Sweden; died 1986), was a Swedish actor. Björnstrand's honours include Ingmar Bergman Award.
Gunnar Björnstrand’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Gunnar
Gunnar Björnstrand’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Gunnar in the U.S.?
#612
US rank in 2025
~18,178
Americans share it since 1893
2015
its peak year
The SSA recorded 7 American boys named Gunnar in 1909: 1,203rd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gunnar’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
11
Soul Urge · insight
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on G (7) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gunnar’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1909, 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 Gunnar apart
The Ingmar Bergman Award came in 1983, when Gunnar Björnstrand was 74.
Gunnar Björnstrand was 22 when the work began in 1931.
Gunnar Björnstrand lies at Catholic cemetery, Northern cemetery.
The family line: married Lillie Björnstrand and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files Gunnar Björnstrand under Male actors from Stockholm, Swedish male film actors and Burials at Norra begravningsplatsen.
Whoopi Goldberg (1955) and Lando Norris (1999) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Ingmar Bergman Award (1983)
- Working from
- 1931
- Buried at
- Catholic cemetery, Northern cemetery
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Languages
- Swedish
- Wikipedia editions
- 27
What the chart says
Gunnar, according to the stars
Core essence
Gunnar does not do surface. The core of Gunnar is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Gunnar is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Gunnar wants to be loved
Gunnar wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Gunnar you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Gunnar creates
How Gunnar makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Gunnar creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Gunnar is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Gunnar 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Gunnar slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Gunnar's birth date. Working below.
Where Gunnar sits
Six lines
Gunnar’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Gunnar Björnstrand
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Stockholm 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 Stockholm that night
Computed for 59.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Gamma Cassiopeiae stood nearest the zenith over Stockholm at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.5° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 59.3°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor stay up year round.
Nothing below −30.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Stockholm on any night.
Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Stockholm, Sweden
The death is recorded at Stockholm, Stockholm Municipality in 1986.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Gunnar Björnstrand: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Gunnar's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Saturn
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Gunnar Björnstrand's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 13, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Gunnar Björnstrand was born on November 13, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Gunnar Björnstrand's birth date, November 13, 1909, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Gunnar’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gunnar Björnstrand's date-only chart is Venus square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Gunnar Björnstrand combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Gunnar’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
Gunnar’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.5° to 0.6° orb
Gunnar’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb
Gunnar’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.2° orb
stableMarssquarePluto1.3° to 1.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.7° orb
stableSunsextileUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.1° to 2.6° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.4° to 12.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Gunnar’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 23°18′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 25°45′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 11°28′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 6°32′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 15°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.2°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.5°
- Chiron square Sun 2.9°
Gunnar’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Gunnar’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
More people like Gunnar
Other actors
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- Broderick Crawford1911
- Bette Davis1908
- Lee J. Cobb1911
- Virginia Cherrill1908
- Hume Cronyn1911
Born in Sweden
- Jullan KindahlSwedish actress
- Max von SydowSwedish-French actor
- Manne SiegbahnSwedish physicist
- Ingrid ThulinSwedish actress
- Pär LagerkvistSwedish writer
- Halvar BjörkSwedish actor
More charts like Gunnar’s
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- Bret StephensAmerican journalist
- David E. HoffmanAmerican journalist
- George DangerfieldAwardee of the Pulitzer Prize, 1953
Born in Rooster years
- Ardie SaveaNew Zealand rugby union player
- Cheslin KolbeSouth African rugby player
- Henry PollockEnglish rugby union player
Also born on November 13
- Whoopi Goldberg1955
- Lando Norris1999
- Jimmy Kimmel1967
- Paul Graham1964
- Lynsey Addario1973
- Art Malik1952
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Vanessa ParadisFrench singer, model and actress
- Lily CollinsBritish-American actress
- Hailee SteinfeldAmerican actress and singer-songwriter
Other Scorpio Rooster charts
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- Leonor, Princess of Asturias38th princess of Asturias and heiress to the Spanish throne
- Ellen PompeoAmerican actress
- Mia GothBritish actress
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Quincy PorterAmerican composer
- Ernst TochAustrian composer
- Eileen McNamaraAmerican journalist and academic
- Jayne Anne PhillipsAmerican writer (born 1952)
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Brannon Bragatelevision producer
- James GunnAmerican science fiction author
- Clifford D. SimakAmerican writer, journalist
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Gunnar’s cards
Computed from November 13, 1909. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gunnar’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q524529 (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 SF-fotografen Louis Huch (1896-1961), som tog stillbildsfoton., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gunnar Björnstrand at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gunnar Björnstrand.
Quick answers about Gunnar Björnstrand’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Gunnar Björnstrand?
- Gunnar Björnstrand was a Scorpio: born November 13, 1909, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Gunnar Björnstrand's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 13, 1909 birth.
- What was Gunnar Björnstrand's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Gunnar Björnstrand's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Gunnar Björnstrand's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Gunnar Björnstrand's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
