Odd Hassel
Odd Hassel (born May 17, 1897, Oslo, Norway; died 1981), was a Norwegian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate. Hassel served as professor. Hassel's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Knight of the Order of St. Olav and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Odd Hassel’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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Odd Hassel’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
Odd’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Odd, according to the stars
Core essence
Odd is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Odd is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Odd is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Odd needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Odd wants to be loved
Odd wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Odd is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Odd creates
How Odd makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Odd creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Odd is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Odd is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Odd 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 Odd's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Odd Hassel in 15 seconds
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Odd Hassel's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 17, 1897, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Odd Hassel was born on May 17, 1897, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Odd Hassel's birth date, May 17, 1897, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Odd’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Odd Hassel's date-only chart is Sun opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Odd Hassel combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Odd’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Odd Hassel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 16° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableSunoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Odd’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.2° to 0.4° orb
Odd’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSunoppositionSaturn0.3° to 1.3° orb
Odd’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus0.5° orb
Odd’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableVenussquareMars0.9° to 1.5° orb
Odd’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.4° to 1.9° orb
Odd’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.6° to 2.2° orb
Odd’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarstrineUranus2.1° to 2.7° orb
Odd’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileMars2.5° to 2.9° orb
Odd’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercurysextileMars2.6° to 3.7° orb
Odd’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareSaturn3.3° to 3.4° orb
Odd’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.7° to 4.6° orb
Odd’s core identity grinds against their growth.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Odd’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 ℞Scorpio 9°35′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Odd carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresTaurus 19°11′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Odd is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosTaurus 27°29′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Odd wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaGemini or Taurus during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Odd needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 17°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Odd is read as immovable on those points.
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 opposition Saturn 0.0°
- Eros opposition Uranus 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.7°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 0.7°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.4°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.6°
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°).
Odd’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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
5 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Odd is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Odd’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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.2°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Odd Hassel, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Odd’s cards
Every card is computed from May 17, 1897, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Odd Hassel, 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
Odd’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q157212, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Odd Hassel 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 Odd Hassel’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Odd Hassel?
- Odd Hassel was a Taurus: born May 17, 1897, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster.
- What was Odd Hassel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 17, 1897 birth.
- What time was Odd Hassel 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 Odd Hassel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the May 17, 1897 birth date.
- What was Odd Hassel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 17, 1897 birth date.
- Where was Odd Hassel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Odd Hassel's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
