Knut Hamsun birth chart

August 4, 1859
Vågå, Norway
Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses

☉︎SunLeo

☽︎MoonLibraorScorpio

Main elementFire 58%

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Only in this chart

Knut Hamsun is the only chart in NEBO's celebrity base with Mercury in Virgo, Venus in Cancer and Mars in Leo at once. John Green comes closest: same Mercury and Venus, but Mars in Gemini.

Mars in Leo with Saturn in Leo. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 197 here, Le Corbusier and Endrick among them.
One planet retrograde: Neptune. George Bernard Shaw and Paul Gauguin have the same set, 1 chart in 57 here.
Mercury near its limit. About 27° from the Sun, and Mercury never gets past about 28°. Ernest Hemingway sits at the same stretch.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Leo Sun reads as warm and proud, with the Moon in Libra or Scorpio depending on birth hour. By the book, Venus in Cancer + Mercury in Virgo + Jupiter in Cancer reads as someone who cares by looking after, catches every typo and grows through home and roots. Elements run fire 58%, water 23%, earth 16%, air 3%, fixed first at 61%, the nearest mix to L. L. Zamenhof.

Planets

Gold lines: Sun conjunct Mars (4.0°), Sun conjunct Saturn (4.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♌︎ Leo 11°wants the room to noticenearest chart: ElGrande Toto 11°
☽︎Moon · emotions♎︎ / ♏︎Libra or Scorpiodepends on birth hour
☿︎Mercury · mind♍︎ Virgo 8°catches every typonearest chart: annanetrebko 8°
♀︎Venus · taste♋︎ Cancer 26°cares by looking afternearest chart: Arnold Schwarzenegger 26°
♂︎Mars · drive♌︎ Leo 7°fights in publicnearest chart: christophernolan 7°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♋︎ Cancer 12°grows through home and rootsnearest chart: Billie Eilish 12°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♌︎ Leo 15°learns to shine without applausenearest chart: Omar Gooding 15°

Generational · shared by a whole age group

♅︎ ♊︎Uranus in Gemini5% of charts here

♆︎ ♓︎Neptune in Pisces2% of charts here

♇︎ ♉︎Pluto in Taurus5% of charts here

Tightest aspects

Venus trine Neptune (0.1°). Taste and the dreamer side run downhill together, as tight as Hans Christian Andersen’s.
Mercury trine Pluto (0.1°). The mind and the need for control run downhill together, as tight as Oliver Bearman’s.
Mars sextile Uranus (0.1°). Drive gets an easy opening from the rule-breaking streak, as tight as Ralph Waldo Emerson’s.

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Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Harry Potter
Marvel: Thor
Star Wars: Poe Dameron
Fullmetal Alchemist: Roy Mustang
Charmed: Greg the firefighter
Batman: Ra’s al Ghul
The Hunger Games: Young Coriolanus Snow

Famous people whose charts click with Knut Hamsun

Travis Kelce leads at 93%, Bella Ramsey closes the list at 90%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

Gavi, born 2004. 3 of 6 planets share a sign (Sun, Mercury and Mars), and Venus splits, Cancer here against Gemini.
Coco Chanel is the nearest in arts (1883): same Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, split on Venus and Mars.

Born on August 4

August 4 also belongs to Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792, arts), Dylan Sprouse (1992, film) and Cole Sprouse (1992, film). On August 4, 1859 the Moon went from waxing crescent to first quarter.

Among artists and writers

Of this chart's placements, Mars in Leo is the rarest among artists and writers (7%), closest to C. S. Lewis and Arthur Miller. Leo ranks 3rd of 12 Suns here, with Coco Chanel and Ilya Repin nearest on the same Sun.