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, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Michel
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
Michel ranked 459th among boys and 1,727th among girls in 1953, the year of this birth, with 243 American boys and 34 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Michel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Michel apart
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922) and Eva Mendes (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Michel sits
Six lines
Michel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Michel Devoret
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Paris 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 Paris that night
Computed for 48.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Paris at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.0° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 48.9°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 −41.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 78% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 23° below the horizon.
How unusual Michel's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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
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.
What Pisces means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Libra or Scorpio 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
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.1° to 2.6° orb
stableMarstrinePluto2.1° to 2.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.0° to 4.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.0° to 4.8° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.1° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.0° to 5.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 19°10′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 9°18′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 27°40′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 21°48′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Michel’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Michel’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.
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.6°
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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
Computed from March 5, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q26703310 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Michel Devoret.
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.
- 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 is Michel Devoret's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Michel Devoret's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
