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Victor Borge

Victor Borge (born January 3, 1909, Copenhagen, Denmark; died 2000), was a Danish comedian and pianist. Borge's honours include Order of the White Rose of Finland, Royal Order of Vasa and Order of the Falcon.

Victor Borge’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Victor Borge’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Pioneer

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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Victor in the U.S.?

#211

US rank in 2025

~332,220

Americans share it since 1880

1990

its peak year

In 1909, 320 American boys were registered Victor — 89th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Victor’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

8

Soul Urge · achievement

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on V (4) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Victor’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1908, 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 Victor apart

The Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog came in 1956, when Victor Borge was 47.

Victor Borge was taught at Royal Danish Academy of Music.

Victor Borge was 8 when the work began in 1917.

Victor Borge lies at Putnam Cemetery.

On the family side, Victor Borge was born to Bernhard Rosenbaum, married Sarabel Sanna Scraper and raised one child.

On Wikipedia the categories read Danish male comedians, Burials at Putnam Cemetery and Jewish Danish actors.

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892) and Greta Thunberg (2003) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Royal Danish Academy of Music
Instruments
piano
Awards
Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav (1972), Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog (1956) and Honorary craftsman (1977)
Working from
1917
Buried at
Putnam Cemetery
Citizenship
United States and Kingdom of Denmark
Languages
English and Danish
Wikipedia editions
41

What the chart says

Victor, according to the stars

Core essence

Victor is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Victor is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

How Victor wants to be loved

Victor wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Victor and watch them fall for you again.

How Victor creates

How Victor makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Victor creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Victor 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Victor 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Victor runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Victor's birth date. Working below.

Where Victor sits

Six lines

Victor’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Victor

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Victor

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Victor

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Victor

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Victor

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Victor

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Victor Borge

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Copenhagen 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 Copenhagen that night

Computed for 55.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Mirfak stood nearest the zenith over Copenhagen at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.9° above the horizon in Perseus.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 55.7°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −34.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Copenhagen on any night.

Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon up and 92% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Copenhagen, Denmark

The death is recorded at Greenwich, Western Connecticut Planning Region in 2000.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Victor Borge: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Victor's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Capricorn · 2 unaspected planets

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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Victor Borge in 15 seconds

Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Victor Borge's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 3, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Earth Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Victor Borge was born on January 3, 1909, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Victor Borge's birth date, January 3, 1909, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Victor’s chart

Victor’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.1° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.3° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.5° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.8° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.2° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.8° orbSun in Capricorn · 12°28′☉12°Moon in Gemini · 5°33′☽5°Mercury in Capricorn · 18°34′☿18°Venus in Sagittarius · 14°26′♀14°Mars in Scorpio · 25°33′♂25°Jupiter in Virgo · 14°30′ · retrograde♃℞14°Saturn in Aries · 4°03′♄4°Uranus in Capricorn · 16°44′♅16°Neptune in Cancer · 15°49′ · retrograde♆℞15°Pluto in Gemini · 24°30′ · retrograde♇℞24°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Victor’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune0.9° to 1.0° orb

    Victor’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.0° to 2.6° orb

    Victor’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune1.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter1.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.9° to 3.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune2.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter3.2° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus3.8° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury5.8° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Victor’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 20°32′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 20°41′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 22°45′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 22°40′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 10°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.6°
  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.8°
  • Eros sextile Mars 2.8°

Victor’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    disposes Venus; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus

Configurations in Victor’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.

  • Mars quintile Jupiter 0.9°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 1.1°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 1.4°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 1.9°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 2.0°

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Victor’s cards

Computed from January 3, 1909. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Victor’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q251417 (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 Jesper Jurcenoks, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Victor Borge at Wikipedia, kor.dk, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Victor Borge.

Quick answers about Victor Borge’s chart

What zodiac sign was Victor Borge?
Victor Borge was a Capricorn: born January 3, 1909, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Victor Borge's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 3, 1909 birth.
What was Victor Borge's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Victor Borge's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Victor Borge's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Victor Borge's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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