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Odysseas Elytis

Odysseas Elytis (born November 2, 1911, Heraklion, Greece; died 1996), was a Greek poet and art critic. Elytis is best remembered for Axion Esti. Elytis's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature and doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University.

Odysseas Elytis’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Odysseas Elytis’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

Odysseas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Crimson · Silver

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

What the chart says

Odysseas, according to the stars

Core essence

Odysseas does not do surface. The core of Odysseas is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Odysseas is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Odysseas is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Odysseas needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Odysseas wants to be loved

Odysseas wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Odysseas and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Odysseas creates

How Odysseas 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. Odysseas 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: Odysseas is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Odysseas is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Odysseas scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Odysseas's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Odysseas sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Odysseas

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Odysseas

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

PrivateExpressive
Odysseas

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Odysseas

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Odysseas

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Odysseas

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

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Dedicate a star to Odysseas Elytis

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

Odysseas’s birth-night reference starAlpheratzblue-white · AndromedaAlpheratz, in Andromeda. A blue-white star, 82.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alpheratz →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 30.8° 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.

Odysseas Elytis in 15 seconds

Scorpio Sun

Trusts slowly. Forgets nothing.

Odysseas Elytis's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 2, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Metal Pig

Generous to the last coin.

Odysseas Elytis was born on November 2, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Odysseas Elytis's birth date, November 2, 1911, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in Odysseas’s chart

Odysseas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Odysseas Elytis, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Mercury · Trine, 0.1° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 1° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.9° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.2° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.4° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.5° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun in Scorpio · 8°53′☉8°Moon in Pisces · 14°55′☽14°Mercury in Scorpio · 14°50′☿14°Venus in Virgo · 24°44′♀24°Mars in Gemini · 9°17′ · retrograde♂℞9°Jupiter in Scorpio · 21°36′♃21°Saturn in Taurus · 17°22′ · retrograde♄℞17°Uranus in Capricorn · 25°43′♅25°Neptune in Cancer · 23°48′ · retrograde♆℞23°Pluto in Gemini · 28°48′ · retrograde♇℞28°

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.

  • stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 5.8° orb

    Odysseas’s feelings flow straight into their mind.

  • stableVenustrineUranus0.6° to 1.3° orb

    Odysseas’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune0.6° to 1.3° orb

    Odysseas’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.7° to 3.4° orb

    Odysseas’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.9° orb

    Odysseas’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune2.1° to 2.3° orb

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

  • stableVenussextileJupiter2.9° to 3.4° orb

    Odysseas’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableVenussquarePluto3.7° to 4.4° orb

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

  • stableJupitersextileUranus4.0° to 4.2° orb

    Odysseas’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.1° to 4.4° orb

    Odysseas’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.7° to 6.2° orb

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter6.1° to 7.4° orb

    Odysseas’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

Odysseas’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 ℞Pisces 2°18′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Odysseas absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 0°44′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Odysseas is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ♡ ErosLibra 13°12′ (moves 0.86° over the day)

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Odysseas is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 4°44′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Odysseas is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 5°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Odysseas is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 3.0°

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°).

Odysseas’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Odysseas 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 Odysseas’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 Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.

  • Sun quincunx Mars 0.4°
  • Mars semi-square Neptune 0.5°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 1.1°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°

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

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Odysseas’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Tower

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The Radiant Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Odysseas Elytis, 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

Odysseas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q160478, 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 (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Odysseas Elytis’s chart

What zodiac sign was Odysseas Elytis?
Odysseas Elytis was a Scorpio: born November 2, 1911, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Pig.
What was Odysseas Elytis's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 2, 1911 birth.
What time was Odysseas Elytis 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 Odysseas Elytis's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the November 2, 1911 birth date.
What was Odysseas Elytis's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 2, 1911 birth date.
Where was Odysseas Elytis's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Odysseas Elytis's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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