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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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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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.

How common is the name Harry in the U.S.?

#775

US rank in 2025

~425,883

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1904, Harry came 13th among boys and 1,307th among girls, carried by 1,722 American boys and 9 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Harry’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

8

Soul Urge · achievement

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on H (8) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Harry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Harry apart

Sigmund Freud (1856) and George Clooney (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Harry sits

Six lines

Harry’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Harry

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Harry

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Harry

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Harry

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Harry

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Harry

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Jämshög church parish on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Harry’s birth-night reference starPhecdablue-white · Ursa MajorPhecda, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 87.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Phecda →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 31.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Jämshög church parish that night

Computed for 56.24°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Jämshög church parish was Phecda, in Ursa Major, 87.8° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 95 catalog stars were up in all.

From 56.2°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −33.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Jämshög church parish on any night.

Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon down and 56% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Harry's chart is

Chart pattern score

38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Taurus · A leaning bowl · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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Taurus Sun

Try 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.

What Taurus means →

Wood Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Harry Martinson was born on May 6, 1904, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Harry Martinson's birth date, May 6, 1904, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Harry’s chart

Harry’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Uranus · Trine, 1° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.1° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.6° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 4.1° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 4.4° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.7° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 5° orbSun in Taurus · 15°28′☉15°Moon in Aquarius · 4°06′☽4°Mercury in Taurus · 25°44′ · retrograde☿℞25°Venus in Aries · 28°35′♀28°Mars in Taurus · 21°40′♂21°Jupiter in Aries · 15°47′♃15°Saturn in Aquarius · 20°29′♄20°Uranus in Sagittarius · 29°32′ · retrograde♅℞29°Neptune in Cancer · 3°53′♆3°Pluto in Gemini · 19°23′♇19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableJupitersextilePluto3.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn4.5° to 5.5° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn4.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn5.1° to 5.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars6.1° to 6.3° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 0°07′

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 20°58′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 11°47′ (moves 0.79° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 2°25′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 1°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Harry’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Harry’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°

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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?

Harry’s cards

Computed from May 6, 1904. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Harry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q132695 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 was Harry Martinson's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Harry Martinson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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