Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer (born April 15, 1931, Stockholm, Sweden; died 2015), was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. Tranströmer is best remembered for Baltics, For the Living and the Dead and The Sorrow Gondola. Tranströmer's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Litteris et Artibus and Kellgren Award.
Tomas Tranströmer’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Goat, with 
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Tomas Tranströmer’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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US rank in 2025
~30,730
Americans share it since 1880
2003
its peak year
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Tomas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Tomas, according to the stars
Core essence
Tomas leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Tomas is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Tomas wants to be loved
Tomas 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 Tomas, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
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 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Tomas is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Tomas fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Tomas's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Tomas Tranströmer's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 15, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Tomas Tranströmer was born on April 15, 1931, which falls in a Metal 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 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Tomas Tranströmer's birth date, April 15, 1931, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Tomas’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tomas Tranströmer's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Tomas Tranströmer combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Tomas’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Tomas Tranströmer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° 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.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.2° to 0.5° orb
Tomas’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrinePluto0.8° to 2.0° orb
Tomas’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.0° to 2.0° orb
Tomas’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquarePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb
Tomas’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb
Tomas’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineJupiter4.0° to 5.1° orb
Tomas’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto4.3° orb
Tomas’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsquarePluto5.3° to 6.3° orb
Tomas’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto5.9° to 6.0° orb
Tomas’s growth and depths act as one.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 1.5° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 2.7° to 14.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Tomas’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 17°03′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Tomas building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 5°24′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Tomas is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosVirgo 11°50′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Tomas is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaGemini 16°60′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Tomas needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 17°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Tomas is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 0.0°
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.3°
- Hygiea square Venus 0.3°
- Eros trine Mercury 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.8°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.7°
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°).
Tomas’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. ♂ Mars5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Tomas is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Tomas’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.
T-square onto Sun · Saturn, Pluto, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tomas Tranströmer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Tomas’s cards
Every card is computed from April 15, 1931, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Tomas Tranströmer, 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
Tomas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42122, 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 Pia Nordlander / bildN, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Tomas Tranströmer at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Tomas Tranströmer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Tomas Tranströmer?
- Tomas Tranströmer was an Aries: born April 15, 1931, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat.
- What was Tomas Tranströmer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 15, 1931 birth.
- What time was Tomas Tranströmer 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 was Tomas Tranströmer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the April 15, 1931 birth date.
- What was Tomas Tranströmer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 15, 1931 birth date.
- Where was Tomas Tranströmer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Tomas Tranströmer's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Uranus). Pluto is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
