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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 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 1880

1966

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Jens’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Jens sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.

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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Jens’s chart

Jens’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Jens Christian Skou, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • 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

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

  • stableVenussextileMars2.2° to 2.8° orb

    Jens’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableMercurysextileMars3.5° to 4.5° orb

    Jens’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussquarePluto3.5° to 4.7° orb

    Jens’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune3.6° to 4.3° orb

    Jens’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.8° to 6.5° orb

    Jens’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.9° to 5.7° orb

    Jens’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.8° orb

    Jens’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • 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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

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

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Jens may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

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

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

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Jens caring by building something that lasts for others.

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

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

    Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Jens is read as slow to start and exact once started.

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

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Jens feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Jens that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

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

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Jens’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  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

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Jens is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Jens’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

  • 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jens Christian Skou, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Jens’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Sun

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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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

No birth time is on public record for Jens Christian Skou, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Jens’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1687170, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
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 time was Jens Christian Skou born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What was Jens Christian Skou's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the October 8, 1918 birth date.
What was Jens Christian Skou's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 8, 1918 birth date.
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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