Theodor Svedberg
Theodor Svedberg (born August 30, 1884, Valbo, Sweden; died 1971), was a Swedish chemist. Svedberg's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Franklin Medal and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
Theodor Svedberg’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Theodor
Theodor Svedberg’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Theodor in the U.S.?
#2004
US rank in 2025
~2,216
Americans share it since 1884
2022
its peak year
Theodor ranked 1,108th in 1884, the year of this birth, with 5 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Theodor’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on T (2) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Theodor’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Lilac · Forest
The record
What sets Theodor apart
Theodor Svedberg took the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1926, at 42.
Training came by way of Uppsala University.
The grave is at Ljusnarsbergs new cemetery.
Theodor Svedberg was married Margit Hallén and Andrea Andreen and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Theodor Svedberg under Swedish chemists, People from Gävle Municipality and Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala.
Ernest Rutherford (1871) and Warren Buffett (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Uppsala University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1926), Franklin Medal (1949) and Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1944)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Prize in Physics
- Buried at
- Ljusnarsbergs new cemetery
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Languages
- Swedish
- Wikipedia editions
- 67
What the chart says
Theodor, according to the stars
Core essence
Theodor notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Theodor is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Theodor wants to be loved
Theodor wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Theodor gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Theodor creates
How Theodor makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Theodor creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Theodor is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Theodor is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Theodor fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Theodor's birth date. Working below.
Where Theodor sits
Six lines
Theodor’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Theodor Svedberg
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Valbo church 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 Valbo church parish that night
Computed for 60.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Valbo church parish at 9 p.m. that evening: Alderamin of Cepheus, within 10.0° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
Valbo church parish sits at 60.7°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 −29.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Fomalhaut, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Valbo church parish on any night.
Sun 13° below the horizon, Moon up and 70% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Valbo church parish, Sweden
The death is recorded at Örebro, Örebro Municipality in 1971.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Theodor Svedberg: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Theodor's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Uranus · A bowl chart
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Theodor Svedberg's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 30, 1884, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyWit is the tool.
Theodor Svedberg was born on August 30, 1884, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Theodor Svedberg's birth date, August 30, 1884, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Theodor’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Theodor Svedberg's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Theodor Svedberg combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Theodor’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonsquareUranus0.0° to 6.0° orb
Theodor’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Theodor’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.4° to 0.9° orb
Theodor’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.0° to 1.6° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn1.6° to 2.2° orb
stableVenussquareMars2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.3° to 4.0° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.2° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.8° to 5.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Theodor’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 9°37′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 24°08′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 14°28′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 29°43′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 10°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Neptune 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Chiron square Sun 2.2°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.9°
- Ceres sextile Mars 3.0°
Theodor’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
6 major aspects
Configurations in Theodor’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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.3°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 2.2°
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Theodor’s cards
Computed from August 30, 1884. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Theodor’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q186391 (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 Theodor Svedberg at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Theodor Svedberg.
Quick answers about Theodor Svedberg’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Theodor Svedberg?
- Theodor Svedberg was a Virgo: born August 30, 1884, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Theodor Svedberg's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 30, 1884 birth.
- What was Theodor Svedberg's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Theodor Svedberg's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Theodor Svedberg's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Theodor Svedberg's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
