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François Mauriac

François Mauriac (born October 11, 1885, Bordeaux, France; died 1970), was a French writer. Mauriac is best remembered for Les arbres et les pierres, Asmodée and Genitrix. Mauriac's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.

François Mauriac’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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François Mauriac’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Visionary

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

What François’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

3

Soul Urge · being heard

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on F (6) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.

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

7 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Blush · Forest

The record

What sets François apart

Amitabh Bachchan (1942) and Michelle Trachtenberg (1985) 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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of François is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

How François wants to be loved

François wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with François even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How François creates

How François makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. François creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: François is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. François is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means François fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
François

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
François

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

PrivateExpressive
François

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
François

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

PracticalVisionary
François

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
François

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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The sky over Bordeaux that night

Computed for 44.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bordeaux was Deneb, in Cygnus, 73.5° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 44.8°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 Bordeaux at all: they sit past the −45.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 14% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.

How unusual François's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Libra · 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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The quick version

Libra Sun

Every side of every argument.

François Mauriac's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 11, 1885, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Wood Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

François Mauriac was born on October 11, 1885, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

François Mauriac's birth date, October 11, 1885, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in François’s chart

François’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.1° orbMoon fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.3° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.4° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.8° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.2° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.6° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.6° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.7° orbSun in Libra · 18°20′☉18°Moon in Scorpio · 27°21′☽27°Mercury in Libra · 14°46′☿14°Venus in Scorpio · 28°39′♀28°Mars in Leo · 14°39′♂14°Jupiter in Virgo · 23°18′♃23°Saturn in Cancer · 8°19′♄8°Uranus in Libra · 4°17′♅4°Neptune in Taurus · 25°06′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Gemini · 2°52′ · retrograde♇℞2°

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

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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

  • stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.0° to 7.2° orb

    François’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 0.7° orb

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

  • stableUranustrinePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb

    François’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune1.7° to 1.9° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.2° to 4.0° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars3.5° to 3.9° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto3.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto7.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 16°18′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 17°09′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 20°25′ (moves 0.67° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 13°09′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 25°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.6°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.5°
  • Hygiea square Mars 1.5°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 1.6°
  • Chiron trine Sun 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.4°
  • Ceres square Mars 2.5°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 2.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 3.0°

François’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in François’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, 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.

  • Mars quintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
  • Sun biquintile Neptune 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.1°
  • Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.8°

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François’s cards

Computed from October 11, 1885. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

乙

yin Wood

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

François’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q81685 (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 Studio Harcourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same François Mauriac at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by François Mauriac.

Quick answers about François Mauriac’s chart

What zodiac sign was François Mauriac?
François Mauriac was a Libra: born October 11, 1885, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was François Mauriac's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 11, 1885 birth.
What was François Mauriac's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was François Mauriac's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was François Mauriac's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was François Mauriac's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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