Jacques Monod
Jacques Monod (born February 9, 1910, Paris, France; died 1976), was a French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate. Monod is best remembered for Monod equation and Chance and Necessity. Monod's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Marjory Stephenson Prize.
Jacques Monod’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rooster, with 
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Jacques Monod’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
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Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Jacques’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Jacques, according to the stars
Core essence
Jacques is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Jacques is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Jacques needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Jacques needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Jacques wants to be loved
Jacques wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Jacques be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Jacques creates
How Jacques makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Jacques creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Jacques 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Jacques is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Jacques is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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.
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Jacques Monod at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Jacques Monod's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 9, 1910, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Jacques Monod was born on February 9, 1910, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22Big blueprint, real hands.
Jacques Monod's birth date, February 9, 1910, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Jacques’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jacques Monod's date-only chart is Venus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Jacques Monod combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Jacques’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jacques Monod, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Aquarius 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.
stableVenustrinePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb
Jacques’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.7° to 1.6° orb
Jacques’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb
Jacques’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
Jacques’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.9° to 4.1° orb
Jacques’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.1° to 5.7° orb
Jacques’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.1° orb
Jacques’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.3° to 4.4° orb
Jacques’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrinePluto4.6° to 5.6° orb
Jacques’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineJupiter5.0° to 6.0° orb
Jacques’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.6° to 5.7° orb
Jacques’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°24′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Jacques making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAquarius 27°24′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Jacques is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosScorpio 24°33′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Jacques is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 12°09′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Jacques is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 25°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Jacques that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Eros square Venus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.2°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.0°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.4°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.4°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 2.6°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.9°
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. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Jacques is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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.
T-square onto Neptune · Jupiter, Saturn, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.8°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 2.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jacques Monod, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Jacques’s cards
Every card is computed from February 9, 1910, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jacques Monod, 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 Q231402, 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 Farabola, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jacques Monod at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about Jacques Monod’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jacques Monod?
- Jacques Monod was an Aquarius: born February 9, 1910, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster.
- What was Jacques Monod's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 9, 1910 birth.
- What time was Jacques Monod 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 was Jacques Monod's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the February 9, 1910 birth date.
- What was Jacques Monod's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 9, 1910 birth date.
- Where was Jacques Monod's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jacques Monod's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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