Ragnar Granit
Ragnar Granit (born October 30, 1900, Riihimäki, Finland; died 1991), was a Finnish scientist. Granit's honours include Commander of the Order of the Polar Star, Knight of the Order of the Polar Star and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Ragnar Granit’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Ragnar
Ragnar Granit’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Ragnar in the U.S.?
#2561
US rank in 2025
~787
Americans share it since 1915
2023
its peak year
Ragnar is in US records from 1915, but 1900 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2023.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ragnar’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on R (9) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ragnar’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Ragnar apart
Diego Maradona (1960) and Ivanka Trump (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ragnar, according to the stars
Core essence
Ragnar does not do surface. The core of Ragnar 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 Ragnar is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Ragnar wants to be loved
Ragnar 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 Ragnar and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Ragnar creates
How Ragnar 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. Ragnar 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: Ragnar is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ragnar is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Ragnar 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 Ragnar's birth date. Working below.
Where Ragnar sits
Six lines
Ragnar’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Ragnar Granit
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Riihimäki 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 Riihimäki that night
Computed for 60.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Riihimäki was Caph, in Cassiopeia, 85.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
From 60.7°N, Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Fomalhaut, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Riihimäki at all: they sit past the −29.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 44% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 34° down.
How unusual Ragnar's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Venus · 2 planets at a critical degree
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 →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Ragnar Granit's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 30, 1900, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Rat
Metal RatSaw the opening before you did.
Ragnar Granit was born on October 30, 1900, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Ragnar Granit's birth date, October 30, 1900, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Ragnar’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ragnar Granit's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ragnar Granit combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Ragnar’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMoontrineVenus0.1° to 6.5° orb
Ragnar’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextilePluto1.1° to 1.6° orb
Ragnar’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.4° to 1.6° orb
Ragnar’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune3.7° to 4.9° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto5.2° to 5.4° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn5.7° to 6.8° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter6.5° to 6.8° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 5.2° to 17.5° depending on birth time
possibleVenussquarePlutoorb from 6.8° to 8.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Ragnar’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 22°14′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 5°24′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Taurus 22°23′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 10°41′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Sun 1.2°
- Eros trine Venus 2.4°
- Chiron square Venus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.5°
Ragnar’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Ragnar’s chart
T-square onto Venus · Saturn, Neptune, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.1°
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More charts like Ragnar’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Joseph RotblatPolish-born British-naturalised physicist
- Edward Adelbert DoisyAmerican biochemist
- Alfred Hermann FriedAustrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Born in Rat years
- Lee Van CleefAmerican actor
- Saïd TaghmaouiFrench-American actor
- Henry JonesAmerican actor of stage, film and television
Also born on October 30
- Diego Maradona1960
- Ivanka Trump1981
- Devin Booker1996
- Nia Long1970
- Ashley Graham1987
- Simon Doonan1952
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Helen MirrenBritish actress (born 1945)
- Vanessa LacheyFilipino actress
- Bristol Palindaughter of Sarah Palin
Other Scorpio Rat charts
- Katy PerryAmerican singer
- Chandrasekhara Venkata RamanIndian physicist
- Josh DuhamelAmerican actor and former model
- Tim CookAmerican business executive, Apple CEO
Other Radiant Architects
- Prince Jacksoneldest son of Michael Jackson
- Lydia McLaughlinCanadian entrepreneur
- Kate MaraAmerican actress (born 1983)
- Jay ManuelCanadian make-up artist
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Michelle KwanAmerican figure skater and diplomat
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Ragnar’s cards
Computed from October 30, 1900. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
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
Ragnar’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q217722 (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 authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ragnar Granit at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ragnar Granit.
Quick answers about Ragnar Granit’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ragnar Granit?
- Ragnar Granit was a Scorpio: born October 30, 1900, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Ragnar Granit's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 30, 1900 birth.
- What was Ragnar Granit's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ragnar Granit's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Ragnar Granit's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ragnar Granit's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
