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Hjalmar Branting

Hjalmar Branting (born November 23, 1860, Stockholm, Sweden; died 1925), was Prime Minister of Sweden. Branting held office as member of the Second Chamber and Sweden's Minister for Finance. Branting's honours include Nobel Peace Prize.

Hjalmar Branting’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Hjalmar Branting’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Explorer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

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

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outside the current top list

~115

Americans share it since 1889

1916

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Hjalmar falls under that line for 1880. Its peak came in 1916, and 115 Americans have carried it since 1889.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Hjalmar’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

3

Soul Urge · being heard

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on H (8) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Hjalmar’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

22 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Rose-gold · Silver

The record

What sets Hjalmar apart

Vincent Cassel (1966) and Gwynne Shotwell (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Hjalmar, according to the stars

Core essence

Hjalmar is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Hjalmar is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Hjalmar wants to be loved

Hjalmar wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Hjalmar gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Hjalmar creates

How Hjalmar makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Hjalmar 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: Hjalmar is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Hjalmar is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Hjalmar 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 Hjalmar's birth date. Working below.

Where Hjalmar sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Hjalmar

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Hjalmar

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Hjalmar

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Hjalmar

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Hjalmar

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Hjalmar

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Klara Church Parish 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 Klara Church Parish that night

Computed for 59.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Klara Church Parish was Ruchbah, in Cassiopeia, 88.2° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 59.3°N, Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Klara Church Parish at all: they sit past the −30.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 81% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.

How unusual Hjalmar'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.

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Hjalmar Branting at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Blunt, cheerful, gone by morning.

Hjalmar Branting's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 23, 1860, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Metal Monkey

Clever, playful, never bored.

Hjalmar Branting was born on November 23, 1860, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 22

Big blueprint, real hands.

Hjalmar Branting's birth date, November 23, 1860, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Hjalmar’s chart

Hjalmar’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Mars · Square, 0.1° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.8° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.4° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.5° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.9° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 3.5° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.6° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.8° orbSun in Sagittarius · 1°26′☉1°Moon in Aries · 4°55′☽4°Mercury in Sagittarius · 11°46′ · retrograde☿℞11°Venus in Libra · 21°51′♀21°Mars in Pisces · 1°29′♂1°Jupiter in Leo · 26°26′♃26°Saturn in Virgo · 8°53′♄8°Uranus in Gemini · 10°21′ · retrograde♅℞10°Neptune in Pisces · 26°40′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Taurus · 8°05′ · retrograde♇℞8°

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

  • stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.2° orb

    Hjalmar’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto0.8° orb

    Hjalmar’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.9° to 1.8° orb

    Hjalmar’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn2.3° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune4.3° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter4.5° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter4.8° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn7.1° to 7.7° orb

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.2° to 13.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 22°55′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 19°32′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 10°21′ (moves 0.77° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 17°60′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 3°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Venus 1.1°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.8°
  • Ceres trine Venus 2.3°
  • Eros opposition Pluto 2.3°

Hjalmar’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Hjalmar’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Mars, Jupiter, SunAn 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.

  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.2°

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Hjalmar’s cards

Computed from November 23, 1860. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Hjalmar’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q53620 (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 Henry B. Goodwin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hjalmar Branting.

Quick answers about Hjalmar Branting’s chart

What zodiac sign was Hjalmar Branting?
Hjalmar Branting was a Sagittarius: born November 23, 1860, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Hjalmar Branting's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 23, 1860 birth.
What was Hjalmar Branting's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What was Hjalmar Branting's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Hjalmar Branting's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Hjalmar Branting's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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