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Jens Christian Skou

Jens Christian Skou (born October 8, 1918, Lemvig, Denmark; died 2018), was a Danish chemist. Skou's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Novo Nordisk Prize and Eric K. Fernströms Nordiska Pris.

Jens Christian Skou’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Jens Christian Skou’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Strategist

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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#5298

US rank in 2025

~2,456

Americans share it since 1884

1966

its peak year

In 1918, 30 American boys were registered Jens — 1,303rd on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jens’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

6

Soul Urge · being needed

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Jens’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Amber · Blush · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1918, 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 Jens apart

The Novo Nordisk Prize came in 1965, when Jens Christian Skou was 47.

The schooling ran through Aarhus University and University of Copenhagen.

Jens Christian Skou lies at Risskov Kirkegård.

On Wikipedia the categories read Danish chemists, People from Lemvig and Academic staff of Aarhus University.

Matt Damon (1970) and Bruno Mars (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Aarhus University and University of Copenhagen
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1997), Novo Nordisk Prize (1965) and Anders Retzius Medal (1978)
Buried at
Risskov Kirkegård
Citizenship
Kingdom of Denmark
Languages
English and Danish
Wikipedia editions
58

What the chart says

Jens, according to the stars

Core essence

Jens makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Jens is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Jens feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Jens needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Jens wants to be loved

Jens 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. Jens gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Jens creates

How Jens makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Jens creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Jens is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

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

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Jens has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Jens's birth date. Working below.

Where Jens sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jens

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jens

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

PrivateExpressive
Jens

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jens

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

PracticalVisionary
Jens

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jens

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jens Christian Skou

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

Jens’s birth-night reference starAlderaminwhite · CepheusAlderamin, in Cepheus. A white star, 83.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alderamin →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 26.8° 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 Lemvig that night

Computed for 56.55°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Lemvig was Alderamin, in Cepheus, 83.6° up.

Of the 96 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 56.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −33.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Lemvig on any night.

Sun 26° below the horizon, Moon down and 12% lit at waxing crescent.

The name and the places

Born in
Lemvig, Denmark

The death is recorded at Aarhus, Aarhus Municipality in 2018.

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

How unusual Jens's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Libra · 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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Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Jens Christian Skou's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 8, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Earth Horse

Happiest halfway there.

Jens Christian Skou was born on October 8, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Jens Christian Skou's birth date, October 8, 1918, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Jens’s chart

Jens’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.1° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.4° orbSaturn faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.8° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.4° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.5° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.6° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.9° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4° orbSun in Libra · 14°21′☉14°Moon in Scorpio · 20°31′☽20°Mercury in Libra · 9°04′☿9°Venus in Libra · 2°33′♀2°Mars in Sagittarius · 5°03′♂5°Jupiter in Cancer · 14°44′♃14°Saturn in Leo · 24°55′♄24°Uranus in Aquarius · 24°04′ · retrograde♅℞24°Neptune in Leo · 8°59′♆8°Pluto in Cancer · 6°39′ · retrograde♇℞6°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Jens’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Jens’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb

    Jens’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto1.5° to 3.3° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars2.2° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercurysextileMars3.5° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto3.5° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune3.6° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.8° to 6.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.9° to 5.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 0°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 3°18′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 14°13′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 18°21′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 17°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Jupiter 0.5°
  • Ceres square Venus 0.8°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 2.0°

Jens’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    6 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Jens’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · 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.

  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.8°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 1.6°

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Famous people with Life Path 1

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  • Matthew VaughnBritish film producer, director and screenwriter
Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong

Jens’s cards

Computed from October 8, 1918. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jens’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1687170 (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 Lars Kruse, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jens Christian Skou at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jens Christian Skou.

Quick answers about Jens Christian Skou’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jens Christian Skou?
Jens Christian Skou was a Libra: born October 8, 1918, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Jens Christian Skou's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 8, 1918 birth.
What was Jens Christian Skou's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Jens Christian Skou's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Jens Christian Skou's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jens Christian Skou's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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