Harry Martinson
Harry Martinson (born May 6, 1904, Jämshög, Sweden; died 1978), was a Swedish writer. Martinson served as seat 15 of the Swedish Academy. Martinson's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Dobloug Prize and Samfundet De Nio's Grand Prize.
Harry Martinson’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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Harry Martinson’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
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Harry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
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What the chart says
Harry, according to the stars
Core essence
Harry is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Harry is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Harry wants to be loved
Harry wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Harry creates
How Harry makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Harry creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Harry is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Harry 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Harry 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 Harry's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Harry Martinson's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 6, 1904, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Wood Dragon
Wood DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Harry Martinson was born on May 6, 1904, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Harry Martinson's birth date, May 6, 1904, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Harry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Harry Martinson's date-only chart is Venus trine Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Harry Martinson 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.
Harry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Harry Martinson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Capricorn or 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.
stableVenustrineUranus0.3° to 1.6° orb
Harry’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.9° to 1.5° orb
Harry’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSaturntrinePluto1.1° orb
Harry’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.5° to 4.6° orb
Harry’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextilePluto3.5° to 3.7° orb
Harry’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
Harry’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsquareSaturn4.5° to 5.5° orb
Harry’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.6° to 4.8° orb
Harry’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.1° to 5.4° orb
Harry’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionMars6.1° to 6.3° orb
Harry’s core identity and drive act as one.
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 2.2° to 14.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Harry’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 0°07′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Harry making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 20°58′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Harry is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosTaurus 11°47′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Harry wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 2°25′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Harry at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 1°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Harry is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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 sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Chiron square Venus 1.5°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.8°
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°).
Harry’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Harry is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Harry’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.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Harry Martinson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Harry’s cards
Every card is computed from May 6, 1904, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Harry Martinson, 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
Harry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q132695, 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 Gunnar Herbert Lundh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Harry Martinson at Wikipedia, harrymartinson.org, 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Harry Martinson.
Quick answers about Harry Martinson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Harry Martinson?
- Harry Martinson was a Taurus: born May 6, 1904, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Dragon.
- What was Harry Martinson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 6, 1904 birth.
- What time was Harry Martinson 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 Harry Martinson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the May 6, 1904 birth date.
- What was Harry Martinson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 6, 1904 birth date.
- Where was Harry Martinson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Harry Martinson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
