Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (born August 8, 1887, Buchach, Ukraine; died 1970), was an Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature. Agnon is best remembered for Samuch ve-Nir'eh, Days of Awe and Une histoire simple. Agnon's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Bialik Prize and Newman Prize.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Shmuel
Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Shmuel in the U.S.?
#923
US rank in 2025
~5,972
Americans share it since 1953
2025
its peak year
US records hold Shmuel from 1953 onward, though not for 1887 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2025 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Shmuel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
8
Soul Urge · achievement
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on S (1) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Shmuel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
The record
What sets Shmuel apart
Roger Federer (1981) and Paul Dirac (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Shmuel, according to the stars
Core essence
Shmuel is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Shmuel is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Shmuel runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Shmuel needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Shmuel wants to be loved
Shmuel 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 Shmuel and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Shmuel creates
How Shmuel 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. Shmuel 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: Shmuel 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Shmuel is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Shmuel 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 Shmuel's birth date. Working below.
Where Shmuel sits
Six lines
Shmuel’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Buchach 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 Buchach that night
Computed for 49.06°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Buchach at 9 p.m. that evening: Eltanin of Draco, within 2.7° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Buchach sits at 49.1°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −40.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Buchach on any night.
Sun 10° below the horizon, Moon down and 79% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Shmuel's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart · 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 8, 1887, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Pig
Fire PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon was born on August 8, 1887, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Structure for the many.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon's birth date, August 8, 1887, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Shmuel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Shmuel Yosef Agnon's date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Shmuel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Aries 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
stableJupitersquareSaturn0.3° orb
Shmuel’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.7° to 1.2° orb
Shmuel’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.1° orb
Shmuel’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune1.9° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.2° to 2.4° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.9° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.9° orb
stableUranustrinePluto4.6° to 4.7° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.0° orb
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Shmuel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 29°39′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 24°06′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 11°56′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 15°42′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 9°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.7°
- Chiron square Venus 1.9°
Shmuel’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Shmuel’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.2°
- Sun quintile Pluto 1.4°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.5°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 2.0°
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Fellow Leo suns
- Sebastian StanRomanian and American actor
- Rod LaverAustralian tennis player
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on August 8
- Roger Federer1981
- Paul Dirac1902
- Ernest Lawrence1901
- Roger Penrose1931
- Shawn Mendes1998
- Alysa Liu2005
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Jim CarreyCanadian-American actor and comedian
- Ivan PavlovRussian physiologist
- Coco ChanelFrench fashion designer
Other Leo Pig charts
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- Arnold SchwarzeneggerAustrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician
- Carl JungSwiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist
- Andrew GarfieldEnglish and American actor
Other Evergreen Architects
- Deion SandersAmerican football and baseball player and football coach
- Jodie Turner-SmithBritish actress
- Kate DouglassAmerican swimmer
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Famous people with Life Path 22
- Miles DavisAmerican jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer
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- Francis CrickBritish molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
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Shmuel’s cards
Computed from August 8, 1887. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
22 · Master Builder☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Shmuel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q133042 (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 Israeli GPO photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Shmuel Yosef Agnon?
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Leo: born August 8, 1887, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Shmuel Yosef Agnon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 8, 1887 birth.
- What was Shmuel Yosef Agnon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Shmuel Yosef Agnon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Shmuel Yosef Agnon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Shmuel Yosef Agnon's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Venus, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
