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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Horse, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~483,475
Americans share it since 1880
1927
its peak year
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Jean’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels 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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Wood Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Jean Bourgain was born on February 28, 1954, which falls in a Wood 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 4
Life Path 4Builds 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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Jean’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jean Bourgain's date-only chart is Sun trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jean Bourgain combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Jean’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jean Bourgain, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Capricorn 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.
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
Jean’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 2.9° orb
Jean’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.5° to 2.5° orb
Jean’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenustrineUranus2.2° to 3.5° orb
Jean’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb
Jean’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.1° to 6.3° orb
Jean’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.2° to 6.2° orb
Jean’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareMars6.0° to 6.7° orb
Jean’s affections grind against their drive.
stableUranussquareNeptune6.5° orb
Jean’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 26°04′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Jean is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 12°01′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Jean is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosSagittarius 1°22′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Jean attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 17°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Jean is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 18°07′ (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 Jean 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.
- 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°
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°).
Jean’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. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Jean is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Jean’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 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 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 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 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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jean Bourgain, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Jean’s cards
Every card is computed from February 28, 1954, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Jean Bourgain, 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
Jean’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q260802, 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 George Bergman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jean Bourgain 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Horse.
- 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 time was Jean Bourgain 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 Jean Bourgain's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the February 28, 1954 birth date.
- What was Jean Bourgain's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 28, 1954 birth date.
- 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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