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Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun (born August 4, 1859, Vågå, Norway; died 1952), was a Norwegian novelist. Hamsun is best remembered for Growth of the Soil and Hunger. Hamsun's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature and Goethe Medal for Art and Science.

Knut Hamsun’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Knut Hamsun’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

What Knut’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

7

Soul Urge · understanding

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on K (2) and closes on T (2).

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

Knut’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Gold

The record

What sets Knut apart

Barack Obama (1961) and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Knut, according to the stars

Core essence

Knut is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Knut is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

How Knut wants to be loved

Knut wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Knut gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Knut creates

How Knut makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Knut builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Knut is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Knut 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Knut fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Knut's birth date. Working below.

Where Knut sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Knut

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Knut

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

PrivateExpressive
Knut

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Knut

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

PracticalVisionary
Knut

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Knut

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Knut Hamsun

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

Knut’s birth-night reference starGrumiumwarm orange · DracoGrumium, in Draco. A warm orange star, 84.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Grumium →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 17.9° 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 Vågå that night

Computed for 61.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Vågå was Grumium, in Draco, 84.6° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.

Vågå sits at 61.9°N, high enough that Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −28.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Fomalhaut, Mimosa, Toliman and Adhara permanently out of view.

The Moon was at first quarter, 42% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 1° down.

How unusual Knut's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart

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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Leo Sun

The room rearranges itself.

Knut Hamsun's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 4, 1859, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Earth Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Knut Hamsun was born on August 4, 1859, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Knut Hamsun's birth date, August 4, 1859, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Knut’s chart

Knut’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.1° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.1° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 0.4° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.4° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.4° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 3° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSun in Leo · 11°30′☉11°Moon in Libra · 27°10′☽27°Mercury in Virgo · 8°29′☿8°Venus in Cancer · 26°48′♀26°Mars in Leo · 7°09′♂7°Jupiter in Cancer · 12°24′♃12°Saturn in Leo · 15°17′♄15°Uranus in Gemini · 7°04′♅7°Neptune in Pisces · 26°51′ · retrograde♆℞26°Pluto in Taurus · 8°33′♇8°

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

  • stableMoonsquareVenus0.0° to 6.3° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Knut’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Knut’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarssextileUranus0.0° to 0.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus1.0° to 1.8° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto1.1° to 1.7° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto2.5° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.4° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter3.7° to 4.2° orb

  • stableJupitersextilePluto3.8° to 4.0° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus4.0° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars4.2° to 4.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 20°38′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 20°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 13°31′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 10°22′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 10°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.6°
  • Eros trine Saturn 1.8°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 1.8°
  • Eros trine Sun 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 3.0°

Knut’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Knut’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree 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.

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°

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Knut’s cards

Computed from August 4, 1859. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Knut’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q40826 (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 Nasjonalbiblioteket from Norway, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Knut Hamsun at Wikipedia, hamsunsenteret.no, 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 Knut Hamsun.

Quick answers about Knut Hamsun’s chart

What zodiac sign was Knut Hamsun?
Knut Hamsun was a Leo: born August 4, 1859, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What was Knut Hamsun's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 4, 1859 birth.
What was Knut Hamsun's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Knut Hamsun's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Knut Hamsun's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Knut Hamsun's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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