Alain Mérieux
Alain Mérieux (born July 10, 1938, Lyon, France), aged 88, is a French businessman.
Alain Mérieux’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Alain
Alain Mérieux’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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 is in US records from 1942, but 1938 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1988.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alain’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
33
Soul Urge · nurture
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
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
11 · 1 · 3 · 4
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1938, 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 Alain apart
The Commander of the National Order of Merit came in 1994, when Alain Mérieux was 56.
The schooling ran through Saint-Marc Lycée and Harvard Business School.
Alain Mérieux was born to Charles Mérieux and raised 2 children.
Nikola Tesla (1856) and Alice Munro (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Saint-Marc Lycée, Harvard Business School and University of Lyon
- Awards
- honorary doctorate from the University of Parma (2004), Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (2015) and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (2021)
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
What the chart says
Alain, according to the stars
Core essence
Alain feels the room before entering it. The core of Alain 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 Alain, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Alain is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Alain needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Alain wants to be loved
Alain wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Alain openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Alain creates
How Alain makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Alain 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: Alain is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Alain is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Alain 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 Alain's birth date. Working below.
Where Alain sits
Six lines
Alain’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Alain Mérieux
Three stars chosen from the real sky above 6th arrondissement of Lyon 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 6th arrondissement of Lyon that night
Computed for 45.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at 6th arrondissement of Lyon was Edasich, in Draco, 76.5° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
From 45.8°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from 6th arrondissement of Lyon at all: they sit past the −44.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 4° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- 6th arrondissement of Lyon, France
- Lives in
- Lyon
Wikidata records Lyon as Alain Mérieux's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alain Mérieux: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Alain's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · No Air planets · 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.
Score your own chart →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Alain Mérieux's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 10, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Alain Mérieux was born on July 10, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Alain Mérieux's birth date, July 10, 1938, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Alain’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alain Mérieux's date-only chart is Sun square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- Alain Mérieux combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Alain’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Sagittarius 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
stableSunsquareSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Alain’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Alain’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.8° to 1.8° orb
Alain’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.8° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune2.8° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars4.3° to 4.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.5° to 6.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto5.8° to 7.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.1° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Alain’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 4°04′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 14°03′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 13°52′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 0°16′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 11°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.4°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 3.0°
Alain’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Alain’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.0°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.4°
More people like Alain
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- Hubert de GivenchyFrench fashion designer
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Born in Tiger years
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- Conan GrayAmerican singer-songwriter
- Elsa SchiaparelliItalian fashion designer and couturier
Also born on July 10
- Nikola Tesla1856
- Alice Munro1931
- Jessica Simpson1980
- Sofía Vergara1972
- Golshifteh Farahani1983
- Isabela Merced2001
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Colby WoodenAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Asim RichardsAmerican football player
- Taliese FuagaAmerican football player
Other Cancer Tiger charts
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- Colton HaynesAmerican actor and model
- Maya HawkeAmerican actress
- Donald FaisonAmerican actor
Other Tidal Visionarys
- Drake ThomasAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Bo NixAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Patrick Surtain IIAmerican football player (born 2000)
- D. J. IveyAmerican football cornerback
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Cameron WinterAmerican rock singer
- Pommelien ThijsBelgian actress and singer
- Nia SiouxAmerican actress, singer, dancer and model
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Alain’s cards
Computed from July 10, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
11 · Visionary☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alain’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2830125 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alain Mérieux.
Quick answers about Alain Mérieux’s chart
- How old is Alain Mérieux?
- Alain Mérieux is 88 years old, born July 10, 1938 in Lyon, France.
- What zodiac sign is Alain Mérieux?
- Alain Mérieux is a Cancer: born July 10, 1938, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Alain Mérieux's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 10, 1938 birth.
- What is Alain Mérieux's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Alain Mérieux's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Alain Mérieux's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Alain Mérieux's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
