Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) was a German-Swiss writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.
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Who Hermann Hesse was
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss novelist, poet and painter. His best-known works include Siddhartha, Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game. His books were translated into numerous languages and distributed internationally. He regained Swiss citizenship in 1924. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A chart describes mechanics, not character: this page shows
what is in Hermann Hesse’s chart — not what kind of person Hermann Hesse must have been because of it.
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The chart
Calculated from the date, time and place of birth. Unconscious activations on the left,
conscious ones on the right — the way a Human Design chart is read.
Profile2/4 · Hermit / Opportunistfrom the lines of the two Suns: 39.2 conscious, 21.4 unconscious
Defined centers6 of 9Head, Ajna, Throat, Heart, Solar Plexus, Root
Open centers3 of 9G, Sacral, Spleen
Channels5 connections4–63 Ajna ↔ Head · doubt grows into clarity you can rely on12–22 Throat ↔ Solar Plexus · feelings find immediate expression17–62 Ajna ↔ Throat · organizing the details until others can easily follow37–40 Solar Plexus ↔ Heart · standing up for one another — the glue of community39–55 Root ↔ Solar Plexus · feelings as a source of creativity
DefinitionSingle Definitionall defined centers are connected
Incarnation Cross39/38 | 21/48
Hover over a row or a planet number — the chart shows you where it sits.
Not everything has a place in the chart: Type, Profile, Strategy, definition and cross come from
how everything works together. Each gate number links to that gate’s page.
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Who shares Hermann Hesse’s design?
The Celebrity Library on this site includes 421 well-known people with a calculated chart. 8 of them share Hermann Hesse’s Type and Profile.
How rare is this combination?
421people in the Celebrity Library
52are Manifestors
9of them also have Profile 2/4, Hermann Hesse included
Everything on this page depends on a single piece of information: the
time of birth. Here you can see how well it’s documented.
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The birth time of Hermann Hesse is documented — it appears on the birth certificate or in an official register. In
astrology, the standard tool for this is the Rodden Rating: it ranks birth times by
the quality of the source.
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BBiography
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DDDisputed
XNo time
AA best documentedX not documented at all
This isn’t a technicality. The Moon changes gates about every ten hours — if the
time is off by a few hours, the Profile, the Authority and sometimes even the Type can change.
Then hardly anything above still holds.
Source of the birth data:
Astro-Databank.
Calculated with this site’s bodygraph calculator.
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