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, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Jacques
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 1888
1969
its peak year
In 1942, 33 American boys were registered Jacques — 1,222nd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jacques’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jacques’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Jacques apart
Tim Berners-Lee (1955) and Kanye West (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Jacques sits
Six lines
Jacques’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 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.
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 Jacques Dubochet
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Aigle 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 Aigle that night
Computed for 46.32°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Aigle was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 81.5° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 46.3°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 Aigle at all: they sit past the −43.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 22% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -3° down.
How unusual Jacques's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° 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
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
stableUranussextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableVenussquarePluto2.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.2° to 3.7° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.6° to 6.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.9° to 7.3° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.3° to 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 11°11′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 27°13′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 27°36′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 27°35′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 20°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Jacques’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Jacques’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
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More charts like Jacques’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Cyril Norman HinshelwoodEnglish physical chemist
- Louis IgnarroAmerican physiologist
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Born in Horse years
- Carles PuyolSpanish footballer (born 1978)
- Frank LampardEnglish association football player and manager
- Eric CantonaFrench footballer and actor (born 1966)
Also born on June 8
- Tim Berners-Lee1955
- Kanye West1977
- Francis Crick1916
- Joan Rivers1933
- Javier Mascherano1984
- Bonnie Tyler1951
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Patrick Surtain IIAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Riley PattersonAmerican football player
- Matt HenningsenAmerican football defensive tackle
Other Gemini Horse charts
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- Fraser StoddartScottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
- Shuji NakamuraJapanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
- Ernst ChainJewish-German-born British biochemist
Other Tidal Healers
- Christian Rozeboomfootball player (born 1997)
- Tommy TownsendAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Kylen GransonAmerican football tight end
- Darrell Luter Jr.American football player (born 2000)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Zach TomAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Breece HallAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Landon DickersonAmerican football player (born 1998)
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Jacques’s cards
Computed from June 8, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jacques’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q41585344 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Jacques Dubochet's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jacques Dubochet's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
