Verner von Heidenstam
Verner von Heidenstam (born July 6, 1859, Olshammar, Sweden; died 1940), was a Swedish writer. Heidenstam served as seat 8 of the Swedish Academy. Heidenstam's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Samfundet De Nio's Grand Prize and Goethe Medal for Art and Science.
Verner von Heidenstam’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Verner
Verner von Heidenstam’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Verner in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~2,134
Americans share it since 1881
1917
its peak year
US records hold Verner from 1881 onward, though not for 1880 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1917 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Verner’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on V (4) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Verner’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
The record
What sets Verner apart
George W. Bush (1946) and Sylvester Stallone (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Verner, according to the stars
Core essence
Verner feels the room before entering it. The core of Verner is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Verner, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Verner wants to be loved
Verner wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Verner like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Verner creates
How Verner makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Verner creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Verner 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Verner is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Verner does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Verner's birth date. Working below.
Where Verner sits
Six lines
Verner’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Verner von Heidenstam
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Olshammar 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 Olshammar that night
Computed for 58.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Edasich stood nearest the zenith over Olshammar at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.7° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
From 58.8°N, Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −31.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Olshammar on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 46% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 0° down.
How unusual Verner's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Cancer · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Verner von Heidenstam's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 6, 1859, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Goat
Earth GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Verner von Heidenstam was born on July 6, 1859, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Verner von Heidenstam's birth date, July 6, 1859, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Verner’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Verner von Heidenstam's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Verner von Heidenstam combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Verner’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Virgo or Libra 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
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.4° to 2.3° orb
Verner’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableJupitersextilePluto2.2° to 2.5° orb
Verner’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
Verner’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMars4.5° to 4.8° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune5.1° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.0° to 14.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 3.6° to 16.4° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextilePlutoorb from 5.0° to 5.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Verner’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 21°58′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 20°59′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 15°36′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo or Cancer during this date
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 6°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Venus 0.5°
- Ceres square Venus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 1.6°
- Ceres trine Mars 2.6°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.9°
Verner’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter
2. ♆ Neptune4 pts
in its own sign, Pisces; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Verner’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Mars, 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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.9°
More people like Verner
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Born in Goat years
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Also born on July 6
- George W. Bush1946
- Sylvester Stallone1946
- 50 Cent1975
- Eva Green1980
- Geoffrey Rush1951
- Peter Singer1946
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Ilia MalininAmerican figure skater
- Mikhail ShaidorovKazakhstani figure skater
- Pan ZhanleChinese swimmer
Other Cancer Goat charts
- Jhumpa LahiriAmerican author of Indian origin (born 1967)
- James Forman, Jr.American author and professor
- Henry E. PilkentonAmerican Kentucky poet laureate
- Robert A. HeinleinAmerican author and aeronautical engineer
Other Evergreen Visionarys
- Deonte BanksAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Reggie GilliamAmerican football player
- Fabian MoreauAmerican football cornerback
- Charles OmenihuAmerican football defensive end
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Chris O'DowdIrish actor and comedian (born 1979)
- Chris RobinsonAmerican musician
- Seann William ScottAmerican actor (born 1976)
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Verner’s cards
Computed from July 6, 1859. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
9 · Healer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Verner’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q129173 (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 Johan Krouthén, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Verner von Heidenstam at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Verner von Heidenstam.
Quick answers about Verner von Heidenstam’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Verner von Heidenstam?
- Verner von Heidenstam was a Cancer: born July 6, 1859, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Verner von Heidenstam's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 6, 1859 birth.
- What was Verner von Heidenstam's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Verner von Heidenstam's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Verner von Heidenstam's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Verner von Heidenstam's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
