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Johannes V. Jensen

Johannes V. Jensen (born January 20, 1873, Farsø, Denmark; died 1950), was a Danish author. Jensen is best remembered for Digte, Stories from Himmerland and The Long Journey. Jensen's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature and Drachmannlegatet.

Johannes V. Jensen’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Johannes V. Jensen’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#2499

US rank in 2025

~2,314

Americans share it since 1913

2019

its peak year

Johannes is in US records from 1913, but 1880 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2019.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Johannes’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Johannes’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

The record

What sets Johannes apart

Buzz Aldrin (1930) and Bill Maher (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Johannes, according to the stars

Core essence

Johannes is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Johannes is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Johannes cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Johannes needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Johannes wants to be loved

Johannes 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 Johannes, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Johannes creates

How Johannes makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Johannes creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Johannes 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Johannes is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

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. Johannes fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Johannes's birth date. Working below.

Where Johannes sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Johannes

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Johannes

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Johannes

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Johannes

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Johannes

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Johannes

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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The sky over Farsø that night

Computed for 56.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Capella stood nearest the zenith over Farsø at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.5° above the horizon in Auriga.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 56.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −33.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 37° below the horizon, Moon down and 60% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Johannes's chart is

Chart pattern score

43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3 planets at a critical degree · T-square onto Mars

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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If you only read one paragraph

Aquarius Sun

Ideas first, people second.

Johannes V. Jensen's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 20, 1873, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Water Monkey

Turns problems into games.

Johannes V. Jensen was born on January 20, 1873, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 4

Structure is comfort.

Johannes V. Jensen's birth date, January 20, 1873, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Johannes’s chart

Johannes’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.5° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.8° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 1.5° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.4° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 3.5° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 3.9° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.5° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.7° orbSun in Aquarius · 0°33′☉0°Moon in Libra · 14°47′☽14°Mercury in Capricorn · 10°52′☿10°Venus in Pisces · 14°21′♀14°Mars in Libra · 29°06′♂29°Jupiter in Leo · 29°38′ · retrograde♃℞29°Saturn in Capricorn · 24°26′♄24°Uranus in Leo · 3°59′ · retrograde♅℞3°Neptune in Aries · 23°36′♆23°Pluto in Taurus · 18°53′ · retrograde♇℞18°

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

  • stableMarssextileJupiter0.3° to 0.8° orb

    Johannes’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb

    Johannes’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsquareMars1.2° to 1.7° orb

    Johannes’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus2.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus3.4° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn4.5° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus4.6° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune5.3° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.5° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn5.7° to 6.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 10°53′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 11°03′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 6°23′ (moves 0.75° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 29°16′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Mercury 0.0°
  • Hygiea square Mars 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.9°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.3°
  • Eros square Uranus 2.4°

Johannes’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6 pts

    disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Johannes’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Sun, Uranus, MarsAn 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 Saturn · Mars, Neptune, SaturnAn 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.

  • Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.3°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.8°
  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.9°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°

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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?

Johannes’s cards

Computed from January 20, 1873. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Johannes’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q159552 (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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Johannes V. Jensen at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Johannes V. Jensen.

Quick answers about Johannes V. Jensen’s chart

What zodiac sign was Johannes V. Jensen?
Johannes V. Jensen was an Aquarius: born January 20, 1873, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Johannes V. Jensen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 20, 1873 birth.
What was Johannes V. Jensen's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Johannes V. Jensen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Johannes V. Jensen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Johannes V. Jensen's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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