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), Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Wood 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
5
Soul Urge · freedom
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌿 Fern
White · Forest
The record
What sets Svante apart
Jessica Lange (1949) and Miranda Kerr (1983) 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 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. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Svante Pääbo
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oscar 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 Oscar Parish that night
Computed for 59.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Oscar Parish at 9 p.m. that evening: Dubhe of Ursa Major, within 2.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 100 catalog stars were up in all.
At 59.3°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −30.7° 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 crescent, 4% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 11° down.
How unusual Svante's chart is
Chart pattern score
77 / 100 · Rare
Yod onto Venus · Grand trine · T-square onto Jupiter
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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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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 8° 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
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
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter2.7° to 3.8° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.8° to 5.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 5°14′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 22°48′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 21°15′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 11°03′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Svante’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
6 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Svante’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Svante’s family here
One relative of Svante Pääbo also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Svante
Other biologists
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- Martin Evans1941
- Paul Berg1926
- Carol Greider1961
- Jeffrey C. Hall1945
- Lee Hartwell1939
Born in Sweden
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- Malin AkermanSwedish actress (born 1978)
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Born in Goat years
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Also born on April 20
- Jessica Lange1949
- Miranda Kerr1983
- Carmen Electra1972
- Paul Poiret1879
- Andy Serkis1964
- Tan France1983
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Christian BaleAmerican-English actor
- Han KangSouth Korean writer
- Chester BenningtonAmerican singer, songwriter and musician
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Danielle BrooksAmerican actress
- Brielle BiermannAmerican television personality
- Jonathan BennettAmerican actor
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
Computed from April 20, 1955. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Svante’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q170342 (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 Duncan.Hull, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Svante Pääbo at Wikipedia, eva.mpg.de and IMDb.
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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.
- 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 is Svante Pääbo's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Svante Pääbo's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
