Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo (born April 20, 1955, Stockholm, Sweden), aged 71, is a Swedish geneticist (born 1955). Pääbo's honours include Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star and Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine.
Svante Pääbo’s zodiac sign is Aries or Taurus (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Wood Goat, with 
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Svante’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌿 Fern
White · Forest
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What the chart says
Svante, according to the stars
How Svante wants to be loved
Svante wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Svante, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Svante creates
How Svante makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Svante creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Svante scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Svante's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Aries or Taurus Sun
Svante Pääbo was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Svante Pääbo was born on April 20, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Svante Pääbo's birth date, April 20, 1955, 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 Svante’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Svante Pääbo's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
Svante’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Svante Pääbo, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 8° Pisces or 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.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.3° orb
Svante’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineUranus0.7° to 1.8° orb
Svante’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.1° to 3.2° orb
Svante’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.7° to 3.8° orb
Svante’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.0° to 2.1° orb
Svante’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.3° to 3.3° orb
Svante’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb
Svante’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb
Svante’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.5° to 3.6° orb
Svante’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineJupiter2.7° to 3.8° orb
Svante’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableUranussquareNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
Svante’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.8° to 5.8° orb
Svante’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Svante’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 5°14′ (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 Svante making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 22°48′ (moves 0.16° 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 Svante caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAries 21°15′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Svante is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 11°03′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Svante is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Svante leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Eros square Jupiter 0.5°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.9°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.1°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.2°
- Eros square Uranus 2.5°
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°).
Svante’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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
6 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Svante 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 Svante’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.
Grand trine · Venus, Jupiter, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Venus, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Venus · Neptune, Pluto, VenusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.3°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.6°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Svante Pääbo, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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One relative of Svante Pääbo also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Svante’s cards
Every card is computed from April 20, 1955, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Svante Pääbo, 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
Svante’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q170342, 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 Duncan.Hull, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Svante Pääbo at Wikipedia, eva.mpg.de and IMDb.
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 Svante Pääbo’s chart
- How old is Svante Pääbo?
- Svante Pääbo is 71 years old, born April 20, 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- What zodiac sign is Svante Pääbo?
- Svante Pääbo was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
- What is Svante Pääbo's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 20, 1955 birth.
- What time was Svante Pääbo 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 is Svante Pääbo's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the April 20, 1955 birth date.
- What is Svante Pääbo's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 20, 1955 birth date.
- Where is Svante Pääbo's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Svante Pääbo's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mars; 5 major aspects). Uranus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
