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Jean-Paul Gaultier

Jean-Paul Gaultier (born April 24, 1952, Bagneux, France, 19:00), aged 74, is a French fashion designer. Gaultier is best known for Cone bra corset. Gaultier's honours include Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the National Order of Merit and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

Jean-Paul Gaultier’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Jean-Paul Gaultier’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

What Jean-Paul’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

1

Soul Urge · independence

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.

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

Jean-Paul’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily

White · Blush · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Jean-Paul apart

The record Jean-Paul Gaultier is measured by: Cone bra corset.

Jean-Paul Gaultier was taught at Brooks Institute.

Barbra Streisand (1942) and Shirley MacLaine (1934) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Cone bra corset
Educated at
Brooks Institute
Awards
Knight of the Legion of Honour (2001), Officer of the National Order of Merit (2000) and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2024)
Nominated for
European Film Award for Best Production Designer
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Jean-Paul, according to the stars

Core essence

Jean-Paul is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Jean-Paul is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Jean-Paul is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Jean-Paul needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Jean-Paul wants to be loved

Jean-Paul wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Jean-Paul creates

How Jean-Paul makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Jean-Paul creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Jean-Paul is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Jean-Paul is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Jean-Paul runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Jean-Paul's birth date. Working below.

Where Jean-Paul sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jean-Paul

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jean-Paul

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Jean-Paul

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jean-Paul

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

PracticalVisionary
Jean-Paul

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jean-Paul

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Jean-Paul Gaultier

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Read from the sky above Bagneux at 19:00, Jean-Paul Gaultier’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Bagneux that night

Computed for 48.80°N, at the documented birth time.

Talitha stood nearest the zenith over Bagneux at the birth hour, 84.0° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.

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.

Sun -8° below the horizon, Moon up and 0% lit at new moon.

What Jean-Paul's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Minister 天相 in 未

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Wealth

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Projector, profile 3/5

Emotional authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

50 / 100 · Unusual

T-square onto Uranus · Born on the New Moon · Mars 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.

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Jean-Paul Gaultier at a glance

Taurus Sun

Try rushing a Taurus. Go on.

Jean-Paul Gaultier's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.

What Taurus means →

Water Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Jean-Paul Gaultier was born on April 24, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Jean-Paul Gaultier's birth date, April 24, 1952, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Jean-Paul’s chart

Jean-Paul’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.1° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.5° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.6° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.6° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.8° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.4° orbSun in Taurus · 4°29′ · house 8☉4°Moon in Taurus · 9°57′ · house 8☽9°Mercury in Aries · 10°00′ · house 7☿9°Venus in Aries · 18°11′ · house 7♀18°Mars in Scorpio · 12°53′ · house 2 · retrograde♂℞12°Jupiter in Aries · 29°01′ · house 7♃29°Saturn in Libra · 9°54′ · house 1 · retrograde♄℞9°Uranus in Cancer · 10°31′ · house 10♅10°Neptune in Libra · 19°57′ · house 1 · retrograde♆℞19°Pluto in Leo · 19°06′ · house 11 · retrograde♇℞19°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLib 25°27′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAri 25°27′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLeo 2°44′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAqr 2°44′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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AscendantLibra
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Aspects, tightest first

  • MercuryoppositionSaturnseparating · 0.1° orb

    Jean-Paul’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • MercurysquareUranusapplying · 0.5° orb

    Jean-Paul’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • MoonsextileUranusapplying · 0.6° orb

    Jean-Paul’s feelings open doors for their need for freedom.

  • SaturnsquareUranusseparating · 0.6° orb

  • VenustrinePlutoapplying · 0.9° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.9° orb

  • VenusoppositionNeptuneapplying · 1.8° orb

  • MarstrineUranusapplying · 2.4° orb

  • MoonoppositionMarsapplying · 2.9° orb

  • SunconjunctionMoonseparating · 5.5° orb

  • SunconjunctionJupiterseparating · 5.5° orb

  • MarssquarePlutoseparating · 6.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable0 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 12°28′ · House 4

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 27°11′ · House 7

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 20°45′ · House 10

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 24°06′ · House 7

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 2°57′ · House 11

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Mars 0.4°
  • Eros square Neptune 0.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Ascendant 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.5°
  • Ceres opposition Ascendant 1.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.8°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
  • Chiron trine Moon 2.5°
  • Chiron square Mercury 2.5°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.6°
  • Eros square Venus 2.6°

Jean-Paul’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus16 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Moon sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Sun, Moon, Saturn, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Jean-Paul’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Saturn, UranusAn 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.

  • Moon quincunx Saturn 0.0°
  • Moon semi-sextile Mercury 0.1°
  • Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.5°

Jean-Paul’s houses

Jean-Paul’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LibraVenus in Aries, house 7Saturn, Neptuneself, body, how you arrive
2ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 11Marsmoney, possessions, self-worth
3SagittariusJupiter in Aries, house 7emptymind, siblings, the local world
4CapricornSaturn in Libra, house 1emptyhome, family, roots
5AquariusUranus in Cancer, house 10emptycreativity, romance, play
6PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 1emptywork, habits, health
7AriesMars in Scorpio, house 2Mercury, Venus, Jupiterpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8TaurusVenus in Aries, house 7Sun, Moonshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9GeminiMercury in Aries, house 7emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10CancerMoon in Taurus, house 8Uranuscareer, reputation, public life
11LeoSun in Taurus, house 8Plutofriends, community, the future
12VirgoMercury in Aries, house 7emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Jean-Paul’s cards

Computed from April 24, 1952. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Hour

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jean-Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q242868 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Netaction, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Quick answers about Jean-Paul Gaultier’s chart

How old is Jean-Paul Gaultier?
Jean-Paul Gaultier is 74 years old, born April 24, 1952 in Bagneux, France.
What zodiac sign is Jean-Paul Gaultier?
Jean-Paul Gaultier is a Taurus: born April 24, 1952, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What is Jean-Paul Gaultier's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 24, 1952 birth.
What time was Jean-Paul Gaultier born?
19:00 local time in Bagneux, France, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Jean-Paul Gaultier's rising sign?
Libra rising, calculated from the documented 19:00 birth time in Bagneux, France (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Jean-Paul Gaultier's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Jean-Paul Gaultier's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 12°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jean-Paul Gaultier's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 2°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jean-Paul Gaultier's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (16 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Moon sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Sun, Moon, Saturn, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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