Gérard Mourou
Gérard Mourou (born June 22, 1944, Albertville, France), aged 82, is a French physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 2018. Mourou's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, IEEE Fellow and Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis.
Gérard Mourou’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Gérard
Gérard Mourou’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
What Gérard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on G (7) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gérard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Pearl · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1944, 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 Gérard apart
The R. W. Wood Prize came in 1995, when Gérard Mourou was 51.
Study took Gérard Mourou to Pierre and Marie Curie University and Grenoble Alpes University.
On Wikipedia the categories read Academic staff of École polytechnique, Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni and People from Ardèche.
Meryl Streep (1949) and Cyndi Lauper (1953) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Pierre and Marie Curie University and Grenoble Alpes University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2018), Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis (2016) and Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (2018)
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
What the chart says
Gérard, according to the stars
Core essence
Gérard feels the room before entering it. The core of Gérard 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 Gérard, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Gérard 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 Gérard needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Gérard creates
How Gérard makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Gérard creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Gérard 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Gérard 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 Gérard leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Gérard 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 Gérard's birth date. Working below.
Where Gérard sits
Six lines
Gérard’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 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 Gérard Mourou
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Albertville 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 Albertville that night
Computed for 45.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Albertville at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 4.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Albertville sits at 45.7°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −44.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Albertville on any night.
The Moon, 5% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -3° below the horizon.
How unusual Gérard's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3 planets at a critical degree · A bowl chart · No Earth planets
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 →The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Gérard Mourou's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 22, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Gérard Mourou was born on June 22, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Gérard Mourou's birth date, June 22, 1944, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Gérard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gérard Mourou's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- Gérard Mourou combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Gérard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° 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
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.2° to 1.0° orb
Gérard’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.2° to 1.1° orb
Gérard’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.2° to 1.3° orb
Gérard’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.2° to 1.4° orb
stableMercurysextileMars1.2° to 2.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.2° to 1.3° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune1.4° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.7° to 4.6° orb
stableUranussextilePluto3.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter5.4° to 5.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 4.3° to 16.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Gérard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 11°15′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 3°02′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 8°37′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 29°39′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 13°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.6°
- Chiron square Uranus 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.2°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 1.5°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.6°
Gérard’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Saturn
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Gérard’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.
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.6°
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Gérard’s cards
Computed from June 22, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gérard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q556543 (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 École polytechnique, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gérard Mourou at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gérard Mourou.
Quick answers about Gérard Mourou’s chart
- How old is Gérard Mourou?
- Gérard Mourou is 82 years old, born June 22, 1944 in Albertville, France.
- What zodiac sign is Gérard Mourou?
- Gérard Mourou is a Cancer: born June 22, 1944, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Gérard Mourou's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 22, 1944 birth.
- What is Gérard Mourou's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gérard Mourou's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Gérard Mourou's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gérard Mourou's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Saturn). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
