Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud (born September 4, 1896, Marseille, France; died 1948), was a French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director. Artaud's honours include Prix Sainte-Beuve.
Antonin Artaud’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Antonin
Antonin Artaud’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Antonin in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~105
Americans share it since 1992
2002
its peak year
US records hold Antonin from 1992 onward, though not for 1896 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2002 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Antonin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Antonin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
The record
What sets Antonin apart
The Prix Sainte-Beuve came in 1947, when Antonin Artaud was 51.
The record gives colorectal cancer as the cause, and Saint Pierre Cemetery as the resting place.
Wikipedia files Antonin Artaud under French writers with disabilities, Poètes maudits and Actors with disabilities.
Beyoncé (1981) and Liz Greene (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Prix Sainte-Beuve (1947)
- Cause of death
- colorectal cancer
- Buried at
- Saint Pierre Cemetery
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French
- Wikipedia editions
- 76
What the chart says
Antonin, according to the stars
Core essence
Antonin notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Antonin is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Antonin wants to be loved
Antonin wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Antonin and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Antonin creates
How Antonin makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Antonin creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Antonin 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Antonin is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Antonin leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Antonin scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Antonin's birth date. Working below.
Where Antonin sits
Six lines
Antonin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Antonin Artaud
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Marseille 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 Marseille that night
Computed for 43.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Sadr stood nearest the zenith over Marseille at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.3° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
Marseille sits at 43.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −46.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 10% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Marseille, France
The death is recorded at Ivry-sur-Seine, arrondissement of L'Haÿ-les-Roses in 1948.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Antonin Artaud: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Antonin's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Antonin Artaud's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 4, 1896, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Antonin Artaud was born on September 4, 1896, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Antonin Artaud's birth date, September 4, 1896, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Antonin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Antonin Artaud's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Antonin Artaud combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Antonin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsquarePluto0.8° to 1.8° orb
Antonin’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareMars1.2° to 1.6° orb
Antonin’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.6° to 2.5° orb
Antonin’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.5° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurytrineMars3.1° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus4.0° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto5.5° to 6.8° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.5° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.3° to 12.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Antonin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 25°47′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 3°19′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 24°19′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 9°01′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 19°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.0°
Antonin’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Antonin’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.6°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.8°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.4°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.5°
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Antonin’s cards
Computed from September 4, 1896. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Antonin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q187166 (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 Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Antonin Artaud at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Antonin Artaud.
Quick answers about Antonin Artaud’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Antonin Artaud?
- Antonin Artaud was a Virgo: born September 4, 1896, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Antonin Artaud's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 4, 1896 birth.
- What was Antonin Artaud's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Antonin Artaud's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Antonin Artaud's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Antonin Artaud's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
