Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (born May 29, 1957, Paris, France; died 2016), was a French mathematician. Yoccoz's honours include Fields medal, Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Jean-Christophe
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
What Jean-Christophe’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
11
Soul Urge · insight
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jean-Christophe’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1957, 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-Christophe apart
The Officer of the Legion of Honour came in 20, when Jean-Christophe Yoccoz was -1937.
Study took Jean-Christophe Yoccoz to Lycée Louis-le-Grand and École polytechnique.
On the family side, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz was born to Jean Yoccoz.
Wikipedia files Jean-Christophe Yoccoz under Nicolas Bourbaki, Academic staff of Paris-Sud University and Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil).
Ted Levine shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, École polytechnique and University of Paris-Sud
- Awards
- Fields medal (1994), Salem Prize (1988) and CNRS bronze medal (1984)
- Sport
- chess
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 36
What the chart says
Jean-Christophe, according to the stars
Core essence
Jean-Christophe 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. Jean-Christophe needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Jean-Christophe processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Jean-Christophe needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Jean-Christophe wants to be loved
Jean-Christophe wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Jean-Christophe like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Jean-Christophe creates
How Jean-Christophe makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Jean-Christophe creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Jean-Christophe 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Jean-Christophe is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jean-Christophe 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 Jean-Christophe's birth date. Working below.
Where Jean-Christophe sits
Six lines
Jean-Christophe’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above 11th 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 11th arrondissement of Paris that night
Computed for 48.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at 11th arrondissement of Paris at 9 p.m. that evening: Alioth of Ursa Major, within 7.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
From 48.9°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 11th arrondissement of Paris at all: they sit past the −41.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 3° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- 11th arrondissement of Paris, France
The death is recorded at 15th arrondissement of Paris, Paris in 2016.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jean-Christophe Yoccoz: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Jean-Christophe's chart is
Chart pattern score
13 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl · 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 →The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 29, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz was born on May 29, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz's birth date, May 29, 1957, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Jean-Christophe’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jean-Christophe Yoccoz's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Jean-Christophe Yoccoz combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Jean-Christophe’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Gemini 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
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.1° to 6.6° orb
Jean-Christophe’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableMercurysextileMars1.5° to 1.6° orb
Jean-Christophe’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareJupiter1.8° to 2.9° orb
Jean-Christophe’s affections grind against their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.6° orb
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 2.7° to 16.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 6.0° to 18.4° depending on birth time
possibleVenusoppositionSaturnorb from 7.7° to 9.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Jean-Christophe’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 17°25′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 3°02′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 28°22′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 8°11′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 0°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.0°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.9°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.2°
Jean-Christophe’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon2 pts
disposes Mars; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Jean-Christophe’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.8°
Born the same day as Jean-Christophe
Ted Levine was born on May 29, 1957 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 48.9°N, 11th arrondissement of Paris keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Rooster years
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Other Gemini Rooster charts
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Other Gilded Seekers
- Miguel Ángel AsturiasGuatemalan writer and diplomat
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Jean-Christophe’s cards
Computed from May 29, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
11 · Visionary☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jean-Christophe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q369600 (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 Renate Schmid, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jean-Christophe Yoccoz 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-Christophe Yoccoz.
Quick answers about Jean-Christophe Yoccoz’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jean-Christophe Yoccoz?
- Jean-Christophe Yoccoz was a Gemini: born May 29, 1957, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Jean-Christophe Yoccoz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 29, 1957 birth.
- What was Jean-Christophe Yoccoz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jean-Christophe Yoccoz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jean-Christophe Yoccoz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jean-Christophe Yoccoz's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
