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Alain Aspect

Alain Aspect (born June 15, 1947, Agen, France), aged 79, is a French physicist. Aspect has served as Director of Research at CNRS and professor. Aspect's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Balzan Prize and Wolf Prize in Physics.

Alain Aspect’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Alain Aspect’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Healer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#2836

US rank in 2025

~3,986

Americans share it since 1942

1988

its peak year

Alain ranked 2,252nd in 1947, the year of this birth, with 12 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Alain’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

2

Expression · connecting people

8

Soul Urge · achievement

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Alain’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy

Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange

The record

What sets Alain apart

Xi Jinping (1953) and Mohamed Salah (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Alain, according to the stars

Core essence

Alain is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Alain needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How Alain wants to be loved

Alain 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 Alain like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Alain creates

How Alain 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. Alain 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: Alain is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Alain 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Alain is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Alain's birth date. Working below.

Where Alain sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Alain

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alain

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

PrivateExpressive
Alain

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alain

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

PracticalVisionary
Alain

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alain

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Alain Aspect

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Agen on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Alain’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 84.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 12.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Agen that night

Computed for 44.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Agen at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 5.6° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.

At 44.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −45.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 13% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 3° down.

How unusual Alain's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Gemini · A leaning bowl

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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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Alain Aspect's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 15, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Alain Aspect was born on June 15, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Alain Aspect's birth date, June 15, 1947, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Alain’s chart

Alain’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.3° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 0.3° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.7° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.5° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.5° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun in Gemini · 23°30′☉23°Moon in Taurus · 6°30′☽6°Mercury in Cancer · 18°03′☿18°Venus in Gemini · 1°53′♀1°Mars in Taurus · 18°43′♂18°Jupiter in Scorpio · 19°03′ · retrograde♃℞19°Saturn in Leo · 6°14′♄6°Uranus in Gemini · 22°01′♅22°Neptune in Libra · 8°02′ · retrograde♆℞8°Pluto in Leo · 11°35′♇11°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Alain’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter0.4° to 1.6° orb

    Alain’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.5° to 0.8° orb

    Alain’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus1.0° to 1.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.7° to 1.9° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn3.8° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.3° to 5.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune5.5° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 5.5° to 18.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 2°32′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 23°42′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 8°50′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 5°19′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 15°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Sun 0.2°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.9°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 1.7°
  • Eros trine Saturn 2.6°
  • Eros trine Pluto 2.7°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 2.9°

Alain’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Alain’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Venus, 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.

  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.2°

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Alain’s cards

Computed from June 15, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Healer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alain’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q364997 (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 Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alain Aspect at Wikipedia and lcf.institutoptique.fr.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alain Aspect.

Quick answers about Alain Aspect’s chart

How old is Alain Aspect?
Alain Aspect is 79 years old, born June 15, 1947 in Agen, France.
What zodiac sign is Alain Aspect?
Alain Aspect is a Gemini: born June 15, 1947, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Alain Aspect's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 15, 1947 birth.
What is Alain Aspect's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Alain Aspect's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Alain Aspect's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Alain Aspect's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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