Louis Néel
Louis Néel (born November 22, 1904, Lyon, France; died 2000), was a French physicist. Néel's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Knight of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Louis Néel’s zodiac sign was Scorpio or Sagittarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Wood Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Louis
How common is the name Louis in the U.S.?
#249
US rank in 2025
~409,317
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 936 American boys and 11 girls named Louis in 1904: 26th among boys and 1,146th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Louis’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on L (3) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Louis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Botanical green
The record
What sets Louis apart
Scarlett Johansson (1984) and Mark Ruffalo (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Louis, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Louis 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 Louis needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Louis wants to be loved
Louis wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Louis you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Louis creates
How Louis makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Louis 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: Louis 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Louis 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Louis fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Louis's birth date. Working below.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above 3rd arrondissement of Lyon on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over 3rd arrondissement of Lyon that night
Computed for 45.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at 3rd arrondissement of Lyon at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 8.6° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 45.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Nothing below −44.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from 3rd arrondissement of Lyon on any night.
The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 49° below the horizon.
How unusual Louis's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mars · 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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Scorpio or Sagittarius Sun
Louis Néel was born on a day when the Sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Dragon
Wood DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Louis Néel was born on November 22, 1904, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
Louis Néel's birth date, November 22, 1904, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Louis’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Louis Néel's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
Louis’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Taurus 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
stableJupitersextilePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
Louis’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSunsextileMars1.3° to 1.7° orb
Louis’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.5° to 3.9° orb
Louis’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableMarssquareUranus2.7° to 3.2° orb
stableVenussquareMars3.0° to 3.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.7° to 6.9° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune6.1° to 6.7° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto7.2° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.6° to 13.3° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 1.7° to 13.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Louis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 26°10′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 6°34′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 6°31′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 13°49′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 23°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Neptune 1.2°
- Eros trine Neptune 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.5°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 1.9°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.3°
Louis’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Louis’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Venus, Neptune, MarsAn 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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.0°
- Mercury quintile Mars 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 2.0°
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Louis’s cards
Computed from November 22, 1904. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Louis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q155781 (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 Farabola, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Louis Néel.
Quick answers about Louis Néel’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Louis Néel?
- Louis Néel was born on a day when the Sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Louis Néel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 22, 1904 birth.
- What was Louis Néel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Louis Néel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Louis Néel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Louis Néel's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
