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Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf (born November 20, 1858, Östra Ämtervik, Sweden; died 1940), was a Swedish writer. Lagerlöf is best remembered for Gösta Berlings Saga, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and Jerusalem. Lagerlöf's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Officer of the Order of Leopold and Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav.

Selma Lagerlöf’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Selma Lagerlöf’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Scholar

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Selma in the U.S.?

#2810

US rank in 2025

~27,202

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Selma’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

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

What the chart says

Selma, according to the stars

Core essence

Selma does not do surface. The core of Selma 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 Selma is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Selma is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Selma needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Selma wants to be loved

Selma wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Selma and watch them fall for you again.

How Selma creates

How Selma makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Selma creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Selma is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Selma is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Selma goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

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

Where Selma sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Selma

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Selma

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Selma

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Selma

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Selma

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Selma

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

Dedicate a star to Selma Lagerlöf

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Östra Ämtervik church parish on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Selma’s birth-night reference starGamma Cassiopeiaeblue · CassiopeiaGamma Cassiopeiae, in Cassiopeia. A blue star, 88.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Gamma Cassiopeiae →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 51.6° 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.

The quick version

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Selma Lagerlöf's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 20, 1858, 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.

Earth Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Selma Lagerlöf was born on November 20, 1858, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

Selma Lagerlöf's birth date, November 20, 1858, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Selma’s chart

Selma’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Selma Lagerlöf, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 26° Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.9° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.4° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.1° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.3° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.7° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.8° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4.5° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 5.7° orbSun in Scorpio · 27°53′☉27°Moon in Taurus · 19°06′☽19°Mercury in Sagittarius · 9°52′☿9°Venus in Sagittarius · 29°25′♀29°Mars in Aquarius · 5°21′♂5°Jupiter in Gemini · 18°56′ · retrograde♃℞18°Saturn in Leo · 12°19′♄12°Uranus in Gemini · 1°35′ · retrograde♅℞1°Neptune in Pisces · 22°11′ · retrograde♆℞22°Pluto in Taurus · 6°12′ · retrograde♇℞6°

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.

  • stableMarssquarePluto0.5° to 1.2° orb

    Selma’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn1.7° to 3.2° orb

    Selma’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus3.2° to 4.2° orb

    Selma’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb

    Selma’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarstrineUranus3.4° to 4.2° orb

    Selma’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercurysextileMars4.1° to 4.9° orb

    Selma’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune5.2° to 6.2° orb

    Selma’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto6.1° orb

    Selma’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn6.6° to 7.3° orb

    Selma’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableVenustrinePluto6.7° to 6.9° orb

    Selma’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 14.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Selma’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.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 12°47′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Selma making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 7°34′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Selma caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ♡ ErosLibra 1°06′ (moves 0.90° 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. Selma is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 10°25′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Selma is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 11°29′ (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. Selma 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.

  • Chiron opposition Saturn 0.5°
  • Eros trine Uranus 0.5°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 1.4°
  • Eros square Venus 1.7°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 2.9°

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°).

Selma’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. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Selma is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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 Selma’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, the shape it makesT-square onto Pluto · Mars, Saturn, PlutoAn 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.

  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.0°
  • Saturn quintile Uranus 1.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
  • Mars semi-square Neptune 1.8°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 2.2°

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

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Selma’s cards

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The Radiant Scholar

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Selma Lagerlöf, 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

Selma’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44519, 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, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Selma Lagerlöf at Wikipedia, selmalagerlof.org, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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 Selma Lagerlöf’s chart

What zodiac sign was Selma Lagerlöf?
Selma Lagerlöf was a Scorpio: born November 20, 1858, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
What was Selma Lagerlöf's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 20, 1858 birth.
What time was Selma Lagerlöf 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 Selma Lagerlöf's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the November 20, 1858 birth date.
What was Selma Lagerlöf's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 20, 1858 birth date.
Where was Selma Lagerlöf's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Selma Lagerlöf's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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