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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
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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.
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Americans share it since 1880
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Shmuel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
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
No documented birth time exists for Shmuel Yosef Agnon, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Shmuel’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineNeptune1.9° to 2.5° orb
Shmuel’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.0° to 2.1° orb
Shmuel’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.2° to 2.4° orb
Shmuel’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.9° to 3.6° orb
Shmuel’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextilePluto3.9° orb
Shmuel’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrinePluto4.6° to 4.7° orb
Shmuel’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.0° orb
Shmuel’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ ChironGemini 29°39′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Shmuel turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresAries 24°06′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Shmuel looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosScorpio 11°56′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Shmuel is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaLeo 15°42′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Shmuel at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 9°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Shmuel carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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.
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.7°
- Chiron square Venus 1.9°
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°).
Shmuel’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Shmuel 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 Shmuel’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Shmuel Yosef Agnon, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Shmuel’s cards
Every card is computed from August 8, 1887, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 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
Shmuel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q133042, 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig.
- 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 time was Shmuel Yosef Agnon 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 Shmuel Yosef Agnon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the August 8, 1887 birth date.
- What was Shmuel Yosef Agnon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 8, 1887 birth date.
- 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.
