Svante August Arrhenius
Svante August Arrhenius (born February 19, 1859, Wik Castle, Sweden; died 1927), was a Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist. Arrhenius's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Davy Medal and Willard Gibbs Award.
Svante August Arrhenius’s zodiac sign was Aquarius or Pisces (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Svante
What Svante’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
22
Soul Urge · legacy
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on S (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Svante’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Gold
The record
What sets Svante apart
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953) and Jennifer Doudna (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Svante, according to the stars
How Svante wants to be loved
Svante wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Svante you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Svante creates
How Svante makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Svante creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Svante is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Svante 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 to wait. Mars in Aries means Svante gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Svante's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wik Castle on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Wik Castle that night
Computed for 59.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Wik Castle was Muscida, in Ursa Major, 81.8° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
Wik Castle sits at 59.7°N, high enough that Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −30.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 92% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 31° down.
How unusual Svante's chart is
Chart pattern score
23 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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.
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Aquarius or Pisces Sun
Svante August Arrhenius was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aquarius into Pisces. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Goat
Earth GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Svante August Arrhenius was born on February 19, 1859, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Svante August Arrhenius's birth date, February 19, 1859, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Svante’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Svante August Arrhenius' date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
Svante’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Virgo or Libra 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
stableVenussquareMars0.0° to 0.3° orb
Svante’s affections grind against their drive.
stableSunsquareUranus0.3° to 1.3° orb
Svante’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquarePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb
Svante’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.6° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurysextileMars2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.0° to 5.6° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn4.6° to 4.7° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 2.4° to 16.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextilePlutoorb from 5.0° to 6.0° depending on birth time
possibleMarstrineSaturnorb from 6.2° to 7.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Svante’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 18°28′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 12°50′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 11°37′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 27°47′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 21°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Jupiter 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.0°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.0°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.1°
- Eros trine Mars 2.2°
- Hygiea trine Sun 2.5°
Svante’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Pisces; disposes Sun
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Svante’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.
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.5°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
More people like Svante
Other astronomers
- Antoine Lavoisier1743
- Luis Walter Alvarez1911
- Vera Rubin1928
- Robert Wilson1936
- George F. Smoot1945
- Edward Victor Appleton1892
Born in Sweden
- Klas Pontus ArnoldsonSwedish politician
- Nathan SöderblomSwedish clergyman and archbishop
- Manne SiegbahnSwedish physicist
- Hugo Theorellbiochemist
- Nils PoppeSwedish entertainer
- Hjalmar BrantingPrime Minister of Sweden
More charts like Svante’s
Born in Goat years
- Dilip ShanghviIndian businessman
- Leonid MikhelsonRussian businessman
- Idan OferIsraeli business magnate and philanthropist
Also born on February 19
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner1953
- Jennifer Doudna1964
- Benicio del Toro1967
- Victoria Justice1993
- Mauro Icardi1993
- Marta1986
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Kim Stanley RobinsonAmerican science fiction writer (born 1952)
- Poul AndersonAmerican science fiction writer
- Gordon R. DicksonCanadian-American science fiction writer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Markquese BellAmerican football player (born 1999)
- D. J. HumphriesAmerican football player
- Tim SettleAmerican football player (born 1997)
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Svante’s cards
Computed from February 19, 1859. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Svante’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80956 (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 Photogravure Meisenbach Riffarth & Co. Leipzig., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Svante August Arrhenius.
Quick answers about Svante August Arrhenius’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Svante August Arrhenius?
- Svante August Arrhenius was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aquarius into Pisces. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Svante August Arrhenius's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 19, 1859 birth.
- What was Svante August Arrhenius's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Svante August Arrhenius's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Svante August Arrhenius's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Svante August Arrhenius's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Pisces; disposes Sun). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
