Sune Bergström
Sune Bergström (born January 10, 1916, Stockholm, Sweden; died 2004), was a Swedish biochemist. Bergström's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Welch Award in Chemistry and Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Sune Bergström’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Sune
Sune Bergström’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
What Sune’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on S (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sune’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1915, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Sune apart
The Björkén Prize came in 1966, when Sune Bergström was 50.
Study took Sune Bergström to Stockholm University.
The family line: born to Wera Carolina Bergström and Sverker Petrus Bergström, married Maj Nelly Nelly Bergström and raised one child.
Wikipedia files Sune Bergström under Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Recipients of the Illis quorum and Academic staff of the Karolinska Institute.
Robert Wilson (1936) and Jemaine Clement (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Stockholm University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1982), Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1977) and Canada Gairdner International Award (1972)
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Languages
- Swedish
- Wikipedia editions
- 55
What the chart says
Sune, according to the stars
Core essence
Sune is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Sune is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Sune wants to be loved
Sune wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Sune be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Sune creates
How Sune 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. Sune 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: Sune is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Sune is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Sune leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Sune 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 Sune's birth date. Working below.
Where Sune sits
Six lines
Sune’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Sune Bergström
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kungsholm parish 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 Kungsholm parish that night
Computed for 59.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Kungsholm parish at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirfak of Perseus, within 14.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Kungsholm parish sits at 59.3°N, high enough that Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −30.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Kungsholm parish on any night.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon up and 37% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Kungsholm parish, Sweden
The death is recorded at Stockholm, Stockholm Municipality in 2004.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sune Bergström: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Sune's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Sune Bergström's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 10, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Sune Bergström was born on January 10, 1916, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Sune Bergström's birth date, January 10, 1916, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Sune’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sune Bergström's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sune Bergström combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Sune’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Pisces or 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
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.4° to 3.0° orb
Sune’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMarssextilePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb
Sune’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.4° to 4.5° orb
Sune’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 3.8° to 16.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileJupiterorb from 4.3° to 5.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Sune’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 18°54′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 15°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 22°47′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 21°35′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 26°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.0°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.3°
- Ceres square Venus 2.6°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.8°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.9°
Sune’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Sune’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.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.6°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.9°
Sune’s family here
One relative of Sune Bergström also has a chart on AsterNym.
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More charts like Sune’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Donyell MalenDutch association football player (born 1999)
- Salih ÖzcanTurkish-German association football player (born 1998)
- Ollie WatkinsEnglish footballer (born 1995)
Born in Rabbit years
- Henry JamesAmerican biographer
- James WrightAmerican poet, born 1927
- Dan FaginAmerican journalist and academic
Also born on January 10
- Robert Wilson1936
- Jemaine Clement1974
- Faith Kipyegon1994
- Reneé Rapp2000
- Rauw Alejandro1993
- Chris Van Hollen1959
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Warren Zaïre-EmeryFrench footballer
- Ons JabeurTunisian tennis player
- Rick JamesAmerican singer, songwriter and record producer
Other Capricorn Rabbit charts
- ShuhuaTaiwanese singer (born 2000)
- Tre JonesAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Keon EllisAmerican basketball player
- Ayo DosunmuAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Other Radiant Strategists
- Humphrey BogartAmerican actor
- Jack KruschenCanadian actor
- George RaftAmerican actor
- Tom Helmoreactor from England
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Mariah CareyAmerican singer
- Amitabh BachchanIndian film actor
- Wangari Muta MaathaiKenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
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Sune’s cards
Computed from January 10, 1916. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sune’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295696 (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 Sune Bergström at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sune Bergström.
Quick answers about Sune Bergström’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sune Bergström?
- Sune Bergström was a Capricorn: born January 10, 1916, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Sune Bergström's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 10, 1916 birth.
- What was Sune Bergström's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Sune Bergström's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Sune Bergström's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sune Bergström's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
