Hugo Theorell
Hugo Theorell (born July 6, 1903, Linköping Cathedral Congregation, Sweden; died 1982), was a Biochemist. Theorell's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Foreign Member of the Royal Society and Björkén Prize.
Hugo Theorell’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Hugo
Hugo Theorell’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Hugo in the U.S.?
#378
US rank in 2025
~37,518
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
The SSA recorded 19 American boys named Hugo in 1903: 493rd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hugo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on H (8) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hugo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1903, 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 Hugo apart
The Björkén Prize came in 1936, when Hugo Theorell was 33.
Hugo Theorell was taught at Katedralskolan and Karolinska Institutet.
The family line: born to Karin Emelie Armida Theorell and Thure Theorell, married Margit Theorell and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Hugo Theorell under People from Linköping, Presidents of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Karolinska Institute alumni.
George W. Bush (1946) and Sylvester Stallone (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Katedralskolan and Karolinska Institutet
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1955), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1959) and Björkén Prize (1936)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Languages
- Swedish
- Wikipedia editions
- 55
What the chart says
Hugo, according to the stars
Core essence
Hugo feels the room before entering it. The core of Hugo is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Hugo, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Hugo is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Hugo needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Hugo wants to be loved
Hugo wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Hugo openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Hugo creates
How Hugo makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Hugo creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Hugo is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Hugo is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Hugo fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Hugo's birth date. Working below.
Where Hugo sits
Six lines
Hugo’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Hugo Theorell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Linköping Cathedral Congregation 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 Linköping Cathedral Congregation that night
Computed for 58.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Edasich stood nearest the zenith over Linköping Cathedral Congregation at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.5° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 58.4°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −31.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 92% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -0° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Linköping Cathedral Congregation, Sweden
The death is recorded at Stockholm, Stockholm Municipality in 1982.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Hugo Theorell: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Hugo's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth 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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Hugo Theorell's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 6, 1903, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Hugo Theorell was born on July 6, 1903, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Hugo Theorell's birth date, July 6, 1903, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Hugo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hugo Theorell's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- Hugo Theorell combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Hugo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° 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
stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.5° orb
Hugo’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.0° to 1.0° orb
Hugo’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.0° to 1.4° orb
Hugo’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto3.0° to 4.4° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto3.1° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto3.5° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.5° to 6.0° orb
stableMarstrinePluto6.1° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.7° to 12.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Hugo’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 20°23′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 9°01′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 10°02′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 4°09′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 27°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 0.4°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.3°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.8°
Hugo’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Neptune
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Hugo’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Uranus, Pluto, JupiterAn 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.
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.1°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.8°
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Hugo’s cards
Computed from July 6, 1903. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hugo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q156480 (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 Hugo Theorell at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hugo Theorell.
Quick answers about Hugo Theorell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hugo Theorell?
- Hugo Theorell was a Cancer: born July 6, 1903, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Hugo Theorell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 6, 1903 birth.
- What was Hugo Theorell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Hugo Theorell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Hugo Theorell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hugo Theorell's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
