Henri Moissan
Henri Moissan (born September 28, 1852, Paris, France; died 1907), was a French chemist. Moissan's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Henri Moissan’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Henri
Henri Moissan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Henri in the U.S.?
#1714
US rank in 2025
~5,987
Americans share it since 1885
2021
its peak year
Henri is in US records from 1885, but 1880 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2021.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Henri’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
33
Personality · warm authority
The name opens on H (8) and closes on I (9).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Henri’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Blush · Soft pink
The record
What sets Henri apart
The Davy Medal came in 1896, when Henri Moissan was 44.
Henri Moissan was taught at École pratique des hautes études.
The record gives appendicitis as the cause, and Grave of Moissan as the resting place.
Henri Moissan was married Marie Léonie Lugan Moissan.
On Wikipedia the categories read Fluorine, French pharmacists and Deaths from appendicitis.
Brigitte Bardot (1934) and Naomi Watts (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- École pratique des hautes études
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1906), Davy Medal (1896) and Elliott Cresson Medal (1898)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Cause of death
- appendicitis
- Buried at
- Grave of Moissan
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French
- Wikipedia editions
- 79
What the chart says
Henri, according to the stars
Core essence
Henri makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Henri 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Henri 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 Henri needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Henri wants to be loved
Henri wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Henri openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Henri creates
How Henri makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Henri 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: Henri is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Henri 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Henri runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Henri's birth date. Working below.
Where Henri sits
Six lines
Henri’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Henri Moissan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Paris 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 Paris that night
Computed for 48.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Paris at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.8° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.
At 48.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Paris at all: they sit past the −41.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 31° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Paris, France
The death is recorded at Paris, Grand Paris in 1907.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Henri Moissan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Henri's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Venus
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Henri Moissan's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 28, 1852, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Rat
Water RatSaw the opening before you did.
Henri Moissan was born on September 28, 1852, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Henri Moissan's birth date, September 28, 1852, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Henri’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Henri Moissan's date-only chart is Mars opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Henri Moissan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Henri’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.
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
stableSunoppositionMoon0.0° to 8.0° orb
Henri’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Henri’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.2° to 1.6° orb
Henri’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareSaturn1.6° to 2.6° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune1.7° to 2.4° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune1.8° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter1.9° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.7° to 4.4° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.3° to 4.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto5.7° to 6.4° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto6.4° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 5.8° to 16.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Henri’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 28°18′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 21°57′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 4°12′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 14°40′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 1°29′ (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 conjunction Pluto 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.2°
- Eros square Sun 1.3°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.9°
- Chiron trine Pluto 3.0°
Henri’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
in its own sign, Pisces; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Henri’s chart
T-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Saturn, VenusAn 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 2.2°
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Henri’s cards
Computed from September 28, 1852. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Henri’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q102804 (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 sv:Generalstabens litografiska anstalt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Henri Moissan at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Henri Moissan.
Quick answers about Henri Moissan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Henri Moissan?
- Henri Moissan was a Libra: born September 28, 1852, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Henri Moissan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 28, 1852 birth.
- What was Henri Moissan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Henri Moissan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Henri Moissan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Henri Moissan's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
