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Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Chevalier (born September 12, 1888, Paris, France; died 1972), was a French singer, actor, and entertainer. Chevalier's honours include Special Tony Award, Grammy Hall of Fame and Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.

Maurice Chevalier’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Maurice Chevalier’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Storyteller

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

How common is the name Maurice in the U.S.?

#1020

US rank in 2025

~138,943

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1888, Maurice came 153rd, carried by 100 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Maurice’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

11

Soul Urge · insight

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.

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

Maurice’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta

The record

What sets Maurice apart

Stanisław Lem (1921) and Paul Walker (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Maurice, according to the stars

Core essence

Maurice notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Maurice is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Maurice is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Maurice needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Maurice wants to be loved

Maurice wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Maurice gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Maurice creates

How Maurice makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Maurice creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Maurice is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Maurice is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Maurice leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Maurice has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Maurice's birth date. Working below.

Where Maurice sits

Six lines

Maurice’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Maurice

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Maurice

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Maurice

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Maurice

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

PracticalVisionary
Maurice

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Maurice

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above 20th arrondissement of Paris on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

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The sky over 20th arrondissement of Paris that night

Computed for 48.87°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at 20th arrondissement of Paris at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 4.2° of the exact zenith.

Of the 89 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

20th arrondissement of 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.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from 20th arrondissement of Paris at all: they sit past the −41.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 50% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 25° down.

How unusual Maurice's chart is

Chart pattern score

38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · No Water planets · 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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Virgo Sun

Standards nobody else can meet.

Maurice Chevalier's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 12, 1888, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Earth Rat

Resourceful is an understatement.

Maurice Chevalier was born on September 12, 1888, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Maurice Chevalier's birth date, September 12, 1888, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Maurice’s chart

Maurice’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 21° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.1° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.7° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.7° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.9° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.2° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.2° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.4° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.4° orbSun in Virgo · 20°06′☉20°Moon in Sagittarius · 14°33′☽14°Mercury in Libra · 5°52′☿5°Venus in Libra · 7°13′♀7°Mars in Sagittarius · 1°07′♂1°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 0°11′♃0°Saturn in Leo · 15°13′♄15°Uranus in Libra · 15°55′♅15°Neptune in Gemini · 2°19′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Gemini · 5°58′ · retrograde♇℞5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Maurice’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenustrinePluto0.6° to 1.9° orb

    Maurice’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.7° to 1.2° orb

    Maurice’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus0.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune0.9° to 1.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.2° to 1.5° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune2.7° to 4.3° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.7° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune4.3° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto4.5° to 5.2° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto5.7° to 5.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

Maurice’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 10°32′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 18°18′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 9°47′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 24°15′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 24°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.8°
  • Ceres square Uranus 2.4°
  • Eros sextile Venus 2.6°

Maurice’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Maurice’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.

  • Mars semi-square Uranus 0.2°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.7°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Sun quintile Mars 1.0°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°

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Maurice’s cards

Computed from September 12, 1888. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Maurice’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106001 (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 William Morris Agency (management)., Public domain, 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 Maurice Chevalier.

Quick answers about Maurice Chevalier’s chart

What zodiac sign was Maurice Chevalier?
Maurice Chevalier was a Virgo: born September 12, 1888, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Maurice Chevalier's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 12, 1888 birth.
What was Maurice Chevalier's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Maurice Chevalier's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Maurice Chevalier's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Maurice Chevalier's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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