Michel Mayor
Michel Mayor (born January 12, 1942, Lausanne, Switzerland), aged 84, is a Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics. Mayor has served as director. Mayor's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Albert Einstein Medal and Balzan Prize.
Michel Mayor’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Snake, with 
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Michel Mayor’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
11 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
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 is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Michel is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Michel feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Michel needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Michel wants to be loved
Michel wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Michel be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Michel 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Michel is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lausanne on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Michel Mayor's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 12, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Michel Mayor was born on January 12, 1942, which falls in a Metal 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 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Michel Mayor's birth date, January 12, 1942, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Michel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michel Mayor's date-only chart is Sun trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Michel Mayor combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Michel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Michel Mayor, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° 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.
stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Michel’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.0° to 1.1° orb
Michel’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.5° to 0.6° orb
Michel’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.3° orb
Michel’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareMars3.8° to 4.9° orb
Michel’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.0° to 5.6° orb
Michel’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSuntrineUranus4.4° to 5.5° orb
Michel’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssquarePluto4.4° to 4.9° orb
Michel’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.8° orb
Michel’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableVenussquareUranus5.4° orb
Michel’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 12°52′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Michel performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresAquarius 5°28′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Michel is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosSagittarius 16°33′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Michel attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 25°21′ (moves 0.03° 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 LilithGemini 4°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Michel that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.2°
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. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Michel is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Michel Mayor, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Michel’s cards
Every card is computed from January 12, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Michel Mayor, 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 Q123975, 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 European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michel Mayor at Wikipedia and exoplanets.ch.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Michel Mayor.
Quick answers about Michel Mayor’s chart
- How old is Michel Mayor?
- Michel Mayor is 84 years old, born January 12, 1942 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- What zodiac sign is Michel Mayor?
- Michel Mayor is a Capricorn: born January 12, 1942, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake.
- What is Michel Mayor's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 12, 1942 birth.
- What time was Michel Mayor 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 Mayor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the January 12, 1942 birth date.
- What is Michel Mayor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 12, 1942 birth date.
- Where is Michel Mayor's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Michel Mayor's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
