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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, Chinese zodiac was 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.

What Odysseas’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

8

Soul Urge · achievement

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on O (6) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Odysseas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Odysseas apart

Shah Rukh Khan (1965) and David Schwimmer (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Odysseas sits

Six lines

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

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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✦ A real star from their birth night

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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Heraklion that night

Computed for 35.34°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Heraklion at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 7.4° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 97 catalog stars were up in all.

From 35.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −54.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Heraklion on any night.

Sun 49° below the horizon, Moon up and 83% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Odysseas's chart is

Chart pattern score

46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Fire planets · Mars retrograde

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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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.

What Scorpio means →

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.

What the Pig means →

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.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Odysseas’s chart

Odysseas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Pisces depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.9° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune2.1° to 2.3° orb

  • stableVenussextileJupiter2.9° to 3.4° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto3.7° to 4.4° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus4.0° to 4.2° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.1° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.7° to 6.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter6.1° to 7.4° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 2°18′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 3.0°

Odysseas’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Odysseas’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Odysseas’s cards

Computed from November 2, 1911. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

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

The same Odysseas Elytis at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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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.
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 was Odysseas Elytis's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Odysseas Elytis's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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