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Didier Queloz

Didier Queloz (born February 23, 1966, Geneva, Switzerland), aged 60, is a Swiss astronomer. Queloz's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Wolf Prize in Physics and BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.

Didier Queloz’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Fire Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Didier Queloz’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

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

#6549

US rank in 2025

~1,009

Americans share it since 1960

2009

its peak year

Didier ranked 2,834th in 1966, the year of this birth, with 9 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Didier’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

1

Soul Urge · independence

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on D (4) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

Didier’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy

Violet · Rose-gold · Flame orange

The record

What sets Didier apart

Emily Blunt (1983) and Casemiro (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Didier, according to the stars

Core essence

Didier feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Didier is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Didier runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Didier needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Didier wants to be loved

Didier wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Didier you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Didier creates

How Didier makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Didier 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: Didier is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Didier 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Didier slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Didier's birth date. Working below.

Where Didier sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Didier

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Didier

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Didier

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Didier

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Didier

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Didier

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Didier Queloz

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Geneva 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 Geneva that night

Computed for 46.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Geneva at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 7.2° of the exact zenith.

Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Geneva sits at 46.2°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −43.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Geneva on any night.

The Moon, 10% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 29° below the horizon.

How unusual Didier's chart is

Chart pattern score

79 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Pisces · 2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Jupiter

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

Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Didier Queloz's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 23, 1966, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Fire Horse

Happiest halfway there.

Didier Queloz was born on February 23, 1966, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 11

Nervy, gifted, tuned high.

Didier Queloz's birth date, February 23, 1966, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Didier’s chart

Didier’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.1° orbSaturn faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.2° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.3° orbSaturn faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.5° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.7° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.7° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.8° orbMars faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.9° orbSun in Pisces · 4°23′☉4°Moon in Aries · 7°16′☽7°Mercury in Pisces · 18°17′☿18°Venus in Capricorn · 29°22′♀29°Mars in Pisces · 19°01′♂19°Jupiter in Gemini · 21°22′♃21°Saturn in Pisces · 17°59′♄17°Uranus in Virgo · 18°09′ · retrograde♅℞18°Neptune in Scorpio · 22°11′ · retrograde♆℞22°Pluto in Virgo · 17°30′ · retrograde♇℞17°

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

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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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Didier’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Didier’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.0° to 1.7° orb

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

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus0.1° to 0.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.3° to 1.2° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus0.4° to 1.3° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto0.4° to 0.6° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.7° to 1.4° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto0.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto1.1° to 1.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter2.0° to 2.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter2.2° to 3.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable7 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 20°59′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 13°27′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 7°12′ (moves 0.83° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 0°53′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 25°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Jupiter 0.4°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.2°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.5°
  • Chiron conjunction Mars 2.0°
  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.7°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.8°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.8°

Didier’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 6 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    disposes Venus; 6 major aspects

Configurations in Didier’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, Mars, SaturnThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.8°

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Didier’s cards

Computed from February 23, 1966. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Didier’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q124013 (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 M.McCaughrean (ESA)/ESO, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Didier Queloz at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Didier Queloz.

Quick answers about Didier Queloz’s chart

How old is Didier Queloz?
Didier Queloz is 60 years old, born February 23, 1966 in Geneva, Switzerland.
What zodiac sign is Didier Queloz?
Didier Queloz is a Pisces: born February 23, 1966, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Didier Queloz's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 23, 1966 birth.
What is Didier Queloz's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Didier Queloz's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Didier Queloz's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Didier Queloz's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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