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Henrik Dam

Henrik Dam (born February 21, 1895, Copenhagen, Denmark; died 1976), was a Danish biochemist and physiologist. Dam's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Henrik Dam’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Henrik Dam’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Storyteller

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#1060

US rank in 2025

~4,224

Americans share it since 1935

2018

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Henrik falls under that line for 1895. Its peak came in 2018, and 4,224 Americans have carried it since 1935.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Henrik’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

2

Expression · connecting people

6

Soul Urge · being needed

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on H (8) and closes on K (2).

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

Henrik’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Rose-gold · Forest

The record

What sets Henrik apart

Henrik Dam took the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943, at 48.

Technical University of Denmark and University of Graz shaped the training.

The grave is at Bispebjerg Cemetery.

Wikipedia's editors put Henrik Dam under Burials at Bispebjerg Cemetery, Scientists from Copenhagen and Danish biochemists.

W. H. Auden (1907) and Alan Rickman (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Technical University of Denmark and University of Graz
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1943)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Buried at
Bispebjerg Cemetery
Citizenship
Kingdom of Denmark
Languages
Danish
Wikipedia editions
61

What the chart says

Henrik, according to the stars

Core essence

Henrik feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Henrik is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Henrik wants to be loved

Henrik wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Henrik, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Henrik creates

How Henrik makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Henrik creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Henrik 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Henrik 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 Henrik leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Henrik 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 Henrik's birth date. Working below.

Where Henrik sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Henrik

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Henrik

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Henrik

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Henrik

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Henrik

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Henrik

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Henrik Dam

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Copenhagen 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 Copenhagen that night

Computed for 55.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Muscida stood nearest the zenith over Copenhagen at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

From 55.7°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 −34.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 7% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 30° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Copenhagen, Denmark

The death is recorded at Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark in 1976.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Henrik Dam: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Henrik's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Pisces · No Fire 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.

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Pisces Sun

Soft edges, deep pull.

Henrik Dam's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 21, 1895, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Wood Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Henrik Dam was born on February 21, 1895, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Henrik Dam's birth date, February 21, 1895, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Henrik’s chart

Henrik’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.4° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 2.3° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.4° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.8° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.9° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.2° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 4° orbSun in Pisces · 2°36′☉2°Moon in Capricorn · 27°34′☽27°Mercury in Pisces · 10°10′ · retrograde☿℞10°Venus in Pisces · 22°18′♀22°Mars in Taurus · 25°18′♂25°Jupiter in Gemini · 26°16′♃26°Saturn in Scorpio · 7°13′ · retrograde♄℞7°Uranus in Scorpio · 19°56′♅19°Neptune in Gemini · 13°00′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Gemini · 9°47′ · retrograde♇℞9°

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

  • stableMercurysquarePluto0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Henrik’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenustrineUranus1.7° to 3.0° orb

    Henrik’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn2.5° to 3.3° orb

    Henrik’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune2.5° to 3.2° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars2.7° to 3.3° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.2° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter3.3° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn4.1° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus5.1° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter5.8° to 6.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

Henrik’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 8°17′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 27°44′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 29°38′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 29°08′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 16°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Pluto 1.5°
  • Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.5°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 3.0°

Henrik’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Henrik’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.2°
  • Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.0°

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Henrik’s cards

Computed from February 21, 1895. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Storyteller

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Henrik’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190501 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Henrik Dam at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Henrik Dam.

Quick answers about Henrik Dam’s chart

What zodiac sign was Henrik Dam?
Henrik Dam was a Pisces: born February 21, 1895, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Henrik Dam's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 21, 1895 birth.
What was Henrik Dam's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Henrik Dam's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Henrik Dam's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Henrik Dam's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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