François Jacob
François Jacob (born June 17, 1920, Nancy, France; died 2013), was a French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965. Jacob served as seat 38 of the Académie française and chancellor. Jacob's honours include Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit and Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer.
François Jacob’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with François
François Jacob’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
What François’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
5
Soul Urge · freedom
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on F (6) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
François’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
The record
What sets François apart
KJ Apa (1997) and Barry Manilow (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
François, according to the stars
Core essence
François 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. François needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, François is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What François needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How François wants to be loved
François 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 François like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How François creates
How François makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. François creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: François 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. François is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. François fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from François's birth date. Working below.
Where François sits
Six lines
François’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 François Jacob
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nancy 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 Nancy that night
Computed for 48.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Nancy at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 4.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Nancy sits at 48.7°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −41.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Nancy on any night.
Sun 3° below the horizon, Moon up and 3% lit at new moon.
How unusual François's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →François Jacob at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
François Jacob's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 17, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
François Jacob was born on June 17, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
François Jacob's birth date, June 17, 1920, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in François’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in François Jacob's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- François Jacob combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
François’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 16° Cancer 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
stableSaturnoppositionUranus0.6° orb
François’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.7° orb
François’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineMars1.0° to 2.0° orb
François’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableUranustrinePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableSuntrineMars2.6° to 3.4° orb
stableMercurysquareMars4.3° to 5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.8° to 5.9° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 2.6° to 16.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
François’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 10°11′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 0°22′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 11°43′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 12°15′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 26°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.9°
François’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Mercury, Pluto
Configurations in François’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.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Mars quintile Neptune 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.7°
More people like François
Other university teachers
- Georg Wittig1897
- Warren L. Lerude1937
- Jean Arthur1900
- Carol Shields1935
- Erik Erikson1902
- John Vane1927
Born in France
- André LwoffFrench microbiologist
- Pierre-Gilles de GennesFrench physicist
- William WylerSwiss-German-American director and producer
- Luc MontagnierFrench virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
- Claudette ColbertAmerican actress
- Anouk AiméeFrench actress
More charts like François’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Bar RefaeliIsraeli model
- Maggie QAmerican actress
- L.A. ReidAmerican record executive (born 1956)
Born in Monkey years
- Naomi WattsEnglish actress
- Sadio ManéSenegalese footballer
- Ryan GoslingCanadian actor
Also born on June 17
- KJ Apa1997
- Barry Manilow1943
- Venus Williams1980
- Elena Rybakina1999
- Jurriën Timber2001
- Odessa A'zion2000
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Dan NdoyeSwiss association football player (born 2000)
- Anass Salah-EddineMoroccan association football player
- Sontje HansenCuraçaoan footballer
Other Gemini Monkey charts
- Steven GerrardEnglish association football player and manager
- EmiSunshineAmerican musician
- Peyton Elizabeth LeeAmerican actress
- GayleAmerican singer-songwriter
Other Radiant Storytellers
- Paul GeorgeAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
- Kevin HuerterAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Tre MannAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Jalen WilsonAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- VJ PayneAmerican football player (born 2004)
- Demarcus LawrenceAmerican football player (born 1992)
- Trent SherfieldAmerican football wide receiver
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
François’s cards
Computed from June 17, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
François’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q218311 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same François Jacob at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by François Jacob.
Quick answers about François Jacob’s chart
- What zodiac sign was François Jacob?
- François Jacob was a Gemini: born June 17, 1920, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was François Jacob's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 17, 1920 birth.
- What was François Jacob's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was François Jacob's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was François Jacob's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was François Jacob's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
