Jacques Dubochet
Jacques Dubochet (born June 8, 1942, Aigle, Switzerland), aged 84, is a Swiss chemist. Dubochet has served as professor. Dubochet's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry and honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg.
Jacques Dubochet’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Horse, with 
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Jacques Dubochet’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Jacques in the U.S.?
#1938
US rank in 2025
~9,977
Americans share it since 1880
1969
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Jacques’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Jacques, according to the stars
Core essence
Jacques 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. Jacques needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Jacques 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 Jacques needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Jacques wants to be loved
Jacques wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Jacques is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Jacques creates
How Jacques makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Jacques creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Jacques 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Jacques is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jacques does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Jacques's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jacques sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Jacques Dubochet at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Jacques Dubochet's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 8, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Jacques Dubochet was born on June 8, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Jacques Dubochet's birth date, June 8, 1942, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Jacques’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jacques Dubochet's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jacques Dubochet combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Jacques’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jacques Dubochet, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Jacques’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.3° to 0.9° orb
Jacques’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.3° to 2.6° orb
Jacques’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.5° to 2.6° orb
Jacques’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableUranussextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
Jacques’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquarePluto2.7° to 3.8° orb
Jacques’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.2° to 3.7° orb
Jacques’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableUranustrineNeptune4.3° orb
Jacques’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.6° to 6.3° orb
Jacques’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.9° to 7.3° orb
Jacques’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
Jacques’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.3° to 7.9° orb
Jacques’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Jacques’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironLeo 11°11′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Jacques performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresPisces 27°13′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Jacques is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 27°36′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Jacques is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaGemini 27°35′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Jacques needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 20°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Jacques that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres opposition Neptune 0.1°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.5°
- Ceres trine Mars 0.8°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 2.0°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 2.6°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Jacques’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Jacques is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Jacques’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jacques Dubochet, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Jacques’s cards
Every card is computed from June 8, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jacques Dubochet, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Jacques’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q41585344, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Félix Imhof ©UNIL, 4 October 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jacques Dubochet at Wikipedia and unil.ch.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jacques Dubochet.
Quick answers about Jacques Dubochet’s chart
- How old is Jacques Dubochet?
- Jacques Dubochet is 84 years old, born June 8, 1942 in Aigle, Switzerland.
- What zodiac sign is Jacques Dubochet?
- Jacques Dubochet is a Gemini: born June 8, 1942, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse.
- What is Jacques Dubochet's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 8, 1942 birth.
- What time was Jacques Dubochet born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Jacques Dubochet's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the June 8, 1942 birth date.
- What is Jacques Dubochet's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 8, 1942 birth date.
- Where is Jacques Dubochet's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jacques Dubochet's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
