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Jacques Perrin

Jacques Perrin (born July 13, 1941, Paris, France; died 2022), was a French actor and film producer. Perrin's honours include Commander of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the National Order of Merit and César Award for Best Producer.

Jacques Perrin’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Jacques Perrin’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 Jacques in the U.S.?

#1938

US rank in 2025

~9,977

Americans share it since 1888

1969

its peak year

In 1941, 20 American boys were registered Jacques — 1,554th 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.

3

Expression · expression and voice

5

Soul Urge · freedom

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1).

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

8 · 2 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia

Sky blue · Pearl · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 Jacques apart

The Volpi Cup for Best Actor came in 1966, when Jacques Perrin was 25.

Jacques Perrin was taught at Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.

Jacques Perrin lies at Père Lachaise Cemetery.

On Wikipedia the categories read Directors of Best Documentary Film César Award winners, French documentary film directors and Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite.

Harrison Ford (1942) and Wole Soyinka (1934) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique
Awards
César Award for Best Documentary Film (2011), César Award for Best Producer (1997) and Volpi Cup for Best Actor (1966)
Nominated for
European Film Award for Best Documentary and Academy Award for Best Picture
Working from
1946
Buried at
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Citizenship
France
Languages
French
Wikipedia editions
40

What the chart says

Jacques, according to the stars

Core essence

Jacques feels the room before entering it. The core of Jacques 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 Jacques, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Jacques is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Jacques needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Jacques wants to be loved

Jacques 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 Jacques openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Jacques 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Jacques gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Jacques

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jacques

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Jacques

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jacques

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Jacques

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jacques

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jacques Perrin

Three stars chosen from the real sky above 14th arrondissement of 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 14th arrondissement of Paris that night

Computed for 48.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over 14th arrondissement of Paris at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 48.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −41.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 74% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat -7° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
14th arrondissement of Paris, France

The death is recorded at 17th arrondissement of Paris, Paris in 2022.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jacques Perrin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Jacques's chart is

Chart pattern score

27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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.

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Cancer Sun

Moody, and loyal past reason.

Jacques Perrin's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 13, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Metal Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Jacques Perrin was born on July 13, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Jacques Perrin's birth date, July 13, 1941, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Jacques’s chart

Jacques’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Mars · Square, 0.1° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.3° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.5° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.7° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 2.8° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.5° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.9° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun in Cancer · 20°36′☉20°Moon in Pisces · 17°48′☽17°Mercury in Cancer · 6°18′ · retrograde☿℞6°Venus in Leo · 13°17′♀13°Mars in Aries · 6°15′♂6°Jupiter in Gemini · 10°44′♃10°Saturn in Taurus · 25°38′♄25°Uranus in Taurus · 29°10′♅29°Neptune in Virgo · 25°17′♆25°Pluto in Leo · 3°31′♇3°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Jacques’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune0.3° to 0.4° orb

    Jacques’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter2.0° to 3.1° orb

    Jacques’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableMarstrinePluto2.5° to 3.0° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.9° orb

  • stableMarssextileJupiter4.3° to 4.6° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.8° to 13.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 1.2° to 13.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.6° to 14.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Jacques’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 2°60′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 27°26′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCancer 13°38′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°22′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 14°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron conjunction Pluto 0.5°
  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 0.9°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 1.1°
  • Ceres square Neptune 2.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.8°

Jacques’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Jacques’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Jacques’s cards

Computed from July 13, 1941. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Strategist

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jacques’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q561124 (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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jacques Perrin at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jacques Perrin.

Quick answers about Jacques Perrin’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jacques Perrin?
Jacques Perrin was a Cancer: born July 13, 1941, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What was Jacques Perrin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 13, 1941 birth.
How tall was Jacques Perrin?
Jacques Perrin was 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Jacques Perrin's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What was Jacques Perrin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Jacques Perrin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jacques Perrin's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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