Tomas Lindahl
Tomas Lindahl (born January 28, 1938, Stockholm, Sweden), aged 88, is a Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist. Lindahl's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Copley Medal and Royal Medal.
Tomas Lindahl’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Tomas
Tomas Lindahl’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Tomas in the U.S.?
#691
US rank in 2025
~30,730
Americans share it since 1880
2003
its peak year
The SSA recorded 154 American boys named Tomas in 1938: 467th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tomas’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on T (2) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Tomas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1937, 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 Tomas apart
The Croonian Medal and Lecture came in 1996, when Tomas Lindahl was 58.
Tomas Lindahl was taught at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet.
Wikipedia files Tomas Lindahl under Swedish emigrants to the United Kingdom, Princeton University staff and Academics of the Francis Crick Institute.
Elijah Wood (1981) and Carlos Slim (1940) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2015), Copley Medal (2010) and Royal Medal (2007)
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Languages
- English and Swedish
- Wikipedia editions
- 62
What the chart says
Tomas, according to the stars
Core essence
Tomas is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Tomas is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Tomas wants to be loved
Tomas 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 Tomas be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Tomas creates
How Tomas makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Tomas creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Tomas is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Tomas 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Tomas slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Tomas's birth date. Working below.
Where Tomas sits
Six lines
Tomas’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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Tomas Lindahl
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Stockholm 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 Stockholm that night
Computed for 59.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Capella stood nearest the zenith over Stockholm at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.9° above the horizon in Auriga.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 110 catalog stars were up in all.
From 59.3°N, Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Stockholm at all: they sit past the −30.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 7% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 37° down.
How unusual Tomas's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Aquarius
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 Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Tomas Lindahl's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 28, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Tomas Lindahl was born on January 28, 1938, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Tomas Lindahl's birth date, January 28, 1938, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Tomas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tomas Lindahl's date-only chart is Mars trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Tomas Lindahl combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Tomas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° 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
stableMarstrinePluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
Tomas’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.6° to 0.8° orb
Tomas’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.8° to 1.6° orb
Tomas’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableSunsquareUranus1.4° to 2.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.5° to 1.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableVenussquareUranus2.9° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus4.3° to 5.5° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune5.5° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Tomas’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 26°08′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 12°50′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 14°39′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 2°14′
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Chiron square Mars 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.8°
Tomas’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Tomas’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Venus, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
More people like Tomas
Other physicians
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- Bert Sakmann1942
- Werner Arber1929
- Peter C. Doherty1940
- Harvey J. Alter1935
- Robert Lefkowitz1943
Born in Sweden
- Tomas TranströmerSwedish poet, psychologist and translator
- Stellan SkarsgårdSwedish actor (born 1951)
- Arvid CarlssonSwedish neuroscientist
- Lena NymanSwedish actress
- Max von SydowSwedish-French actor
- Carl BennetSwedish businessman, chairman of Getinge and Lifco
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Born in Ox years
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- David MumfordBritish/American mathematician
- Cédric VillaniFrench mathematician and politician
Also born on January 28
- Elijah Wood1981
- Carlos Slim1940
- Will Poulter1993
- J. Cole1985
- Maluma1994
- Ariel Winter1998
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- Jeff BuckleyAmerican musician
- Robert NoyceAmerican physicist, engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel
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Other Gilded Architects
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Tomas’s cards
Computed from January 28, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Tomas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1886068 (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 Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tomas Lindahl at Wikipedia and liu.se.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tomas Lindahl.
Quick answers about Tomas Lindahl’s chart
- How old is Tomas Lindahl?
- Tomas Lindahl is 88 years old, born January 28, 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- What zodiac sign is Tomas Lindahl?
- Tomas Lindahl is an Aquarius: born January 28, 1938, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Tomas Lindahl's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 28, 1938 birth.
- What is Tomas Lindahl's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Tomas Lindahl's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Tomas Lindahl's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tomas Lindahl's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
