Jules A. Hoffmann
Jules A. Hoffmann (born August 2, 1941, Echternach, Luxembourg), aged 85, is a French biologist. Hoffmann has served as president of the French Academy of Sciences and member of the Académie française. Hoffmann's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award and Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize.
Jules A. Hoffmann’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Jules
Jules A. Hoffmann’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Jules in the U.S.?
#1396
US rank in 2025
~11,467
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
In 1941, 88 American boys were registered Jules — 649th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jules’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jules’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Jules apart
JD Vance (1984) and Isabel Allende (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Jules, according to the stars
Core essence
Jules is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Jules is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Jules wants to be loved
Jules wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Jules and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Jules creates
How Jules makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Jules creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Jules 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Jules is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Jules gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Jules's birth date. Working below.
Where Jules sits
Six lines
Jules’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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
Dedicate a star to Jules A. Hoffmann
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Echternach 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 Echternach that night
Computed for 49.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Edasich stood nearest the zenith over Echternach at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.5° above the horizon in Draco.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 49.8°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 −40.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 76% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat -2° below the horizon.
How unusual Jules's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all · 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.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Jules A. Hoffmann's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 2, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Jules A. Hoffmann was born on August 2, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Jules A. Hoffmann's birth date, August 2, 1941, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Jules’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jules A. Hoffmann's date-only chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Jules A. Hoffmann combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Jules’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableMarssextileJupiter1.1° to 1.3° orb
Jules’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineNeptune1.4° to 1.5° orb
Jules’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.8° to 3.4° orb
Jules’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.2° to 4.8° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.1° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto5.2° to 6.1° orb
stableSuntrineMars5.8° to 6.3° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Jules’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 5°24′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 24°59′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 1°57′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 1°17′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 16°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Neptune 0.8°
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.1°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.8°
Jules’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Jules’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.
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.1°
More people like Jules
Other biologists
- Paul Berg1926
- Yoshinori Ohsumi1945
- Michael W. Young1949
- Lee Hartwell1939
- George Wells Beadle1903
- Jeffrey C. Hall1945
Born in Luxembourg
- Gabriel LippmannLuxembourgish physicist nationalized French
More charts like Jules’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Anna PaquinNew Zealand actress
- Antonio ValenciaPortughez association football player
- Eric BanaAustralian actor
Born in Snake years
- Candace OwensAmerican political commentator
- Paulina PorizkovaCzech-American model and actress
- Simu LiuChinese-Canadian actor and author
Also born on August 2
- JD Vance1984
- Isabel Allende1942
- Sam Worthington1976
- Charli XCX1992
- Jacob Collier1994
- Sandeep Lamichhane2000
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Chandrasekhara Venkata RamanIndian physicist
- Kurt GödelAustrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics
- Charles BabbageEnglish mathematician, philosopher, and engineer
Other Leo Snake charts
- Henrik PontoppidanDanish writer, Nobel Laureate
- Elias CanettiBulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
- Sebastian de GraziaAmerican writer
- Booth TarkingtonAmerican novelist
Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- Hunter ParrishAmerican actor
- Luke PerryAmerican actor
- Becca TobinAmerican actress and singer
- Kirsten StormsAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Mary BadhamAmerican actress
- Giustino DuranoItalian actor
- Gunnar BjörnstrandSwedish actor
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Jules’s cards
Computed from August 2, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jules’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q105605 (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 Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jules A. Hoffmann at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jules A. Hoffmann.
Quick answers about Jules A. Hoffmann’s chart
- How old is Jules A. Hoffmann?
- Jules A. Hoffmann is 85 years old, born August 2, 1941 in Echternach, Luxembourg.
- What zodiac sign is Jules A. Hoffmann?
- Jules A. Hoffmann is a Leo: born August 2, 1941, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Jules A. Hoffmann's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 2, 1941 birth.
- What is Jules A. Hoffmann's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jules A. Hoffmann's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jules A. Hoffmann's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jules A. Hoffmann's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
