Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre (born June 21, 1905, Paris, France; died 1980), was a French existentialist philosopher. Sartre's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Eugène Dabit populist novel award and Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century.
Jean-Paul Sartre’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Jean-Paul
Jean-Paul Sartre’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
What Jean-Paul’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
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 1905, 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-Paul apart
The Eugène Dabit populist novel award came in 1940, when Jean-Paul Sartre was 35.
Study took Jean-Paul Sartre to Cours Hattemer and Lycée Henri-IV.
The record gives edema as the cause, and Montparnasse Cemetery as the resting place.
On the family side, Jean-Paul Sartre was born to Anne-Marie Schweitzer and Jean-Baptiste Sartre.
Wikipedia files Jean-Paul Sartre under Existentialists, French prisoners of war in World War II and Free love advocates.
Benazir Bhutto (1953) and Chris Pratt (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Cours Hattemer, Lycée Henri-IV and Lycée Louis-le-Grand
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Literature (1964), Eugène Dabit populist novel award (1940) and Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century (1950)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Story and Nobel Prize in Literature
- Cause of death
- edema
- Buried at
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French
- Wikipedia editions
- 201
What the chart says
Jean-Paul, according to the stars
Core essence
Jean-Paul 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-Paul needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Jean-Paul needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Jean-Paul needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Jean-Paul wants to be loved
Jean-Paul wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Jean-Paul is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Jean-Paul creates
How Jean-Paul makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Jean-Paul 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-Paul 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Jean-Paul is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Paris on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Paris that night
Computed for 48.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Paris at 9 p.m. that evening: Edasich of Draco, within 11.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
Paris sits at 48.9°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −41.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Paris on any night.
Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon down and 77% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Paris, France
- Lived in
- Paris · La Rochelle
Wikidata records Paris and La Rochelle as Jean-Paul Sartre's home, Paris among them.
The death is recorded at 14th arrondissement of Paris, Paris in 1980.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jean-Paul Sartre: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Jean-Paul's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Gemini · Grand trine · No Fire planets
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-Paul Sartre's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 21, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Jean-Paul Sartre was born on June 21, 1905, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Jean-Paul Sartre's birth date, June 21, 1905, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Jean-Paul’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jean-Paul Sartre's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Fire signs in this chart.
- Jean-Paul Sartre combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Jean-Paul’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Aquarius 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
stableMoontrinePluto0.0° to 7.0° orb
Jean-Paul’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.5° orb
Jean-Paul’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.9° orb
Jean-Paul’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionUranus2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.0° to 4.2° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto3.3° to 5.5° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.7° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus5.5° to 7.7° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionMars5.9° to 6.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Jean-Paul’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 5°50′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 17°27′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 24°06′
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 26°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 16°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.1°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.0°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.7°
- Chiron square Mars 2.6°
- Hygiea trine Sun 2.6°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.7°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.7°
Jean-Paul’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Jean-Paul’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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.
Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.6°
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From the journal: Is astrology real or fake? · Sect: day charts vs night charts
Jean-Paul’s cards
Computed from June 21, 1905. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jean-Paul’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q9364 (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 Moshe Milner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jean-Paul Sartre 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 Jean-Paul Sartre.
Quick answers about Jean-Paul Sartre’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jean-Paul Sartre?
- Jean-Paul Sartre was a Gemini: born June 21, 1905, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Jean-Paul Sartre's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 21, 1905 birth.
- What was Jean-Paul Sartre's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jean-Paul Sartre's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jean-Paul Sartre's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jean-Paul Sartre's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
