Michel Devoret
Michel Devoret (born March 5, 1953, Paris, France), aged 73, is a French physicist. Devoret's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Knight of the Legion of Honour and Comstock Prize in Physics.
Michel Devoret’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Snake, with 
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Michel Devoret’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Michel in the U.S.?
#4642
US rank in 2025
~14,094
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Michel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Michel, according to the stars
Core essence
Michel feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Michel is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Michel wants to be loved
Michel 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 Michel creates
How Michel makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Michel creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Michel 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Michel is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Michel 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 Michel's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Michel sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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.
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The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Michel Devoret's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 5, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Michel Devoret was born on March 5, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Michel Devoret's birth date, March 5, 1953, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Michel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michel Devoret's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Michel Devoret combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Michel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Michel Devoret, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Michel’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.5° to 1.1° orb
Michel’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.4° to 2.2° orb
Michel’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableJupitersextileUranus1.7° to 1.9° orb
Michel’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb
Michel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.1° to 2.6° orb
Michel’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrinePluto2.1° to 2.8° orb
Michel’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb
Michel’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrinePluto4.0° to 4.6° orb
Michel’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.0° to 4.8° orb
Michel’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquareUranus4.1° to 4.9° orb
Michel’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquarePluto5.0° to 5.2° orb
Michel’s growth grinds against their depths.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Michel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 19°10′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Michel is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresGemini 9°18′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Michel feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAquarius 27°40′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Michel is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 21°48′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Michel is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Michel exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron square Mars 0.1°
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.3°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.0°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.8°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Michel’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Michel is read as acting first and reflecting after.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Michel’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Michel Devoret, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Michel’s cards
Every card is computed from March 5, 1953, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Michel Devoret, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Michel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q26703310, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Christian Ursilva from København, Danmark, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michel Devoret at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Michel Devoret’s chart
- How old is Michel Devoret?
- Michel Devoret is 73 years old, born March 5, 1953 in Paris, France.
- What zodiac sign is Michel Devoret?
- Michel Devoret is a Pisces: born March 5, 1953, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake.
- What is Michel Devoret's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 5, 1953 birth.
- What time was Michel Devoret born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Michel Devoret's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the March 5, 1953 birth date.
- What is Michel Devoret's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 5, 1953 birth date.
- Where is Michel Devoret's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Michel Devoret's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Aries; disposes Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
