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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Michel
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
The SSA recorded 70 American boys and 27 girls named Michel in 1942: 773rd among boys and 1,619th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3).
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
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 record
What sets Michel apart
Haruki Murakami (1949) and Jeff Bezos (1964) 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 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. 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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Mayor
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lausanne 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 Lausanne that night
Computed for 46.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mirfak stood nearest the zenith over Lausanne at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.7° above the horizon in Perseus.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 46.5°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Lausanne at all: they sit past the −43.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon down and 22% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Michel's chart is
Chart pattern score
64 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Mars · Five planets retrograde · 2 planets 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° 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
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
stableMercurysquareMars3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.0° to 5.6° orb
stableSuntrineUranus4.4° to 5.5° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.4° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.8° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 12°52′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 5°28′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 16°33′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 25°21′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Michel’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Michel’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.2°
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Also born on January 12
- Haruki Murakami1949
- Jeff Bezos1964
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From the journal: What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated · Is astrology real or fake?
Michel’s cards
Computed from January 12, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
11 · Visionary♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q123975 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Michel Mayor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Michel Mayor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
