Nils Poppe
Nils Poppe (born May 31, 1908, Malmö, Sweden; died 2000), was a Swedish entertainer. Poppe's honours include H. M. The King's Medal, Litteris et Artibus and Edvardpriset.
Nils Poppe’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Nils
Nils Poppe’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Nils in the U.S.?
#4993
US rank in 2025
~3,083
Americans share it since 1888
1970
its peak year
Nils is in US records from 1888, but 1908 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1970.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nils’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on N (5) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 7, which numerology reads as analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nils’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta
The record
What sets Nils apart
Clint Eastwood (1930) and Colin Farrell (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Nils, according to the stars
Core essence
Nils is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Nils needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Nils wants to be loved
Nils 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. Nils gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Nils creates
How Nils makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Nils creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Nils 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Nils is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Nils does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Nils's birth date. Working below.
Where Nils sits
Six lines
Nils’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Nils Poppe
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Malmö 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 Malmö that night
Computed for 55.58°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Malmö was Mizar, in Ursa Major, 88.9° up.
Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Malmö sits at 55.6°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Malmö at all: they sit past the −34.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 2° below the horizon, Moon up and 3% lit at new moon.
How unusual Nils's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Cancer · A leaning bowl
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.
Score your own chart →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Nils Poppe's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 31, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Nils Poppe was born on May 31, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Nils Poppe's birth date, May 31, 1908, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Nils’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nils Poppe's date-only chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Nils Poppe combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
Nils’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.0° to 7.3° orb
Nils’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.2° to 1.0° orb
Nils’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.9° to 1.0° orb
Nils’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.1° to 2.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus1.8° to 2.3° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn2.0° to 2.5° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.6° to 4.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.8° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.3° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.5° to 6.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune7.2° to 7.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Nils’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 23°23′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 4°53′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 28°54′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus or Gemini during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 16°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.6°
- Ceres square Mars 0.9°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.9°
Nils’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Nils’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Mercury, Venus, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.0°
- Sun biquintile Uranus 0.7°
More people like Nils
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- Hugo Theorellbiochemist
- Halvar BjörkSwedish actor
- Harry MartinsonSwedish writer
- Ingvar KampradSwedish business magnate
- Ulf von EulerSwedish physiologist and pharmacologist
- Torsten Nils WieselSwedish neuroscientist
More charts like Nils’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Andrew NiccolNew Zealand screenwriter, producer and film director
- Jim ReardonAmerican animator, director, and screenwriter
- Tansy Rayner RobertsAustralian fantasy and crime fiction writer
Born in Monkey years
- Netta BarzilaiIsraeli singer
- Laura PreponAmerican actress and director
- Cara DelevingneEnglish model and actor
Also born on May 31
- Clint Eastwood1930
- Colin Farrell1976
- Brooke Shields1965
- Chien-Shiung Wu1912
- Iga Świątek2001
- Azealia Banks1991
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Octavio PazMexican writer, poet an diplomat
- Melania TrumpFirst Lady of the United States
- Lewis HamiltonBritish racing driver
Other Gemini Monkey charts
- Kylie MinogueAustralian singer and actress
- Mohamed SalahEgyptian association football player
- John BardeenAmerican physicist and engineer
- Philippe CoutinhoBrazilian association football player
Other Radiant Seekers
- Terence SteeleAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Odafe OwehAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Dallis FlowersAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Marquise BrownAmerican football player (born 1997)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Jay CutlerAmerican football player, quarterback
- Ryan CabreraAmerican musician
- Michael CheAmerican comedian
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Nils’s cards
Computed from May 31, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nils’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1067321 (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 original work: uncredited; cropped by Elinnea, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nils Poppe at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nils Poppe.
Quick answers about Nils Poppe’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Nils Poppe?
- Nils Poppe was a Gemini: born May 31, 1908, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Nils Poppe's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 31, 1908 birth.
- What was Nils Poppe's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Nils Poppe's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Nils Poppe's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Nils Poppe's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
