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Jean Bourgain

Jean Bourgain (born February 28, 1954, Ostend, Belgium; died 2018), was a Belgian mathematician and Fields Medalist. Bourgain's honours include Fields medal, Ostrowski Prize and Salem Prize.

Jean Bourgain’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Wood Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Jean Bourgain’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Explorer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Jean in the U.S.?

#1172

US rank in 2025

~483,475

Americans share it since 1880

1927

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1954, Jean came 56th among girls and 587th among boys, carried by 7,665 American girls and 159 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jean’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

7

Soul Urge · understanding

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Jean’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Rose-gold · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1954, 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 Jean apart

Jean Bourgain took the Salem Prize in 1983, at 29.

The classrooms behind this chart: Free University of Brussels and Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jean Bourgain: Vrije Universiteit Brussel alumni, Deaths from pancreatic cancer in Belgium and Mathematical analysts.

Linus Pauling (1901) and Steven Chu (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Free University of Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université libre de Bruxelles
Awards
Fields medal (1994), Ostrowski Prize (1991) and Salem Prize (1983)
Citizenship
Belgium
Languages
French and English
Wikipedia editions
36

What the chart says

Jean, according to the stars

Core essence

Jean feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Jean is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Jean is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Jean needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Jean wants to be loved

Jean wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Jean, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Jean creates

How Jean 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. Jean 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: Jean 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Jean is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Jean has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Jean's birth date. Working below.

Where Jean sits

Six lines

Jean’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Jean

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jean

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

PrivateExpressive
Jean

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jean

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Jean

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jean

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jean Bourgain

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ostend on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Jean’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 79.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 74.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Ostend that night

Computed for 51.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Ostend was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 79.9° up.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 51.2°N, Vega, 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 Ostend at all: they sit past the −38.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 24° below the horizon, Moon down and 23% lit at waning crescent.

The name and the places

Born in
Ostend, Belgium

The death is recorded at Bonheiden, Arrondissement of Mechelen in 2018.

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

How unusual Jean's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Pisces · T-square onto Mercury · Five planets retrograde

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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If you only read one paragraph

Pisces Sun

Feels it all, owns none of it.

Jean Bourgain's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 28, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Wood Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Jean Bourgain was born on February 28, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Jean Bourgain's birth date, February 28, 1954, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Jean’s chart

Jean’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.1° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.5° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 0.8° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.1° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.1° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.9° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 2° orbSun in Pisces · 9°20′☉9°Moon in Capricorn · 8°07′☽8°Mercury in Pisces · 11°16′ · retrograde☿℞11°Venus in Pisces · 16°28′♀16°Mars in Sagittarius · 10°07′♂10°Jupiter in Gemini · 16°57′♃16°Saturn in Scorpio · 9°15′ · retrograde♄℞9°Uranus in Cancer · 19°19′ · retrograde♅℞19°Neptune in Libra · 25°47′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Leo · 23°25′ · retrograde♇℞23°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Jean’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Jean’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.4° to 1.9° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareMars0.6° to 1.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn1.5° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.2° to 3.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.1° to 6.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter5.2° to 6.2° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars6.0° to 6.7° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune6.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 26°04′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 12°01′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 1°22′ (moves 0.49° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 17°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 18°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Neptune 0.3°
  • Hygiea trine Venus 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.2°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 1.9°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.9°

Jean’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Jean’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Mars, Jupiter, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Mars, Jupiter, 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.

  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
  • Mars semi-square Neptune 0.7°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°

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Jean’s cards

Computed from February 28, 1954. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Explorer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

4 · Architect

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jean’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q260802 (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 George Bergman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jean Bourgain at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jean Bourgain.

Quick answers about Jean Bourgain’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jean Bourgain?
Jean Bourgain was a Pisces: born February 28, 1954, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was Jean Bourgain's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 28, 1954 birth.
What was Jean Bourgain's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Jean Bourgain's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Jean Bourgain's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jean Bourgain's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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