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Nicolas Batum

Nicolas Batum (born December 14, 1988, Lisieux, France), aged 37, is a French basketball player. Batum has played for France men's national basketball team, SLUC Nancy Basket and Los Angeles Clippers. Batum's honours include Knight of the National Order of Merit.

Nicolas Batum’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Nicolas Batum’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#177

US rank in 2025

~101,764

Americans share it since 1882

2003

its peak year

In 1988, 1,204 American boys and 14 girls were registered Nicolas — 218th among boys and 5,809th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Nicolas’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

11

Soul Urge · insight

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on N (5) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.

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

Nicolas’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1988, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Nicolas apart

The Knight of the National Order of Merit came in 2021, when Nicolas Batum was 33.

Nicolas Batum was 18 when the work began in 2006.

Vanessa Hudgens shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Awards
Knight of the National Order of Merit (2021)
Working from
2006
Sport
basketball
Citizenship
France
Languages
French
Wikipedia editions
36

What the chart says

Nicolas, according to the stars

Core essence

Nicolas is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Nicolas is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Nicolas wants to be loved

Nicolas wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Nicolas even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Nicolas creates

How Nicolas makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Nicolas creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Nicolas is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Nicolas is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Nicolas 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 Nicolas's birth date. Working below.

Where Nicolas sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Nicolas

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Nicolas

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Nicolas

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Nicolas

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Nicolas

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Nicolas

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Nicolas Batum

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lisieux 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 Lisieux that night

Computed for 49.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Almach stood nearest the zenith over Lisieux at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.6° above the horizon in Andromeda.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.

From 49.1°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 Lisieux at all: they sit past the −40.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 34% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 37° down.

How unusual Nicolas's chart is

Chart pattern score

35 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

2 planets at a critical degree · No Air planets · A leaning bowl

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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Nicolas Batum at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Truth first, tact later.

Nicolas Batum's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 14, 1988, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Earth Dragon

Born for the big room.

Nicolas Batum was born on December 14, 1988, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Nicolas Batum's birth date, December 14, 1988, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Nicolas’s chart

Nicolas’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 0.5° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.8° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.2° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.2° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.4° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.6° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.8° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 3.6° orbSun in Sagittarius · 22°41′☉22°Moon in Aquarius · 29°29′☽29°Mercury in Sagittarius · 29°56′☿29°Venus in Scorpio · 25°54′♀25°Mars in Aries · 11°51′♂11°Jupiter in Taurus · 28°19′ · retrograde♃℞28°Saturn in Capricorn · 3°31′♄3°Uranus in Capricorn · 0°42′♅0°Neptune in Capricorn · 9°16′♆9°Pluto in Scorpio · 14°02′♇14°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.0° to 1.5° orb

    Nicolas’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter1.7° to 3.1° orb

    Nicolas’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune2.4° to 2.8° orb

    Nicolas’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.9° to 4.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury7.0° to 7.5° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 6.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 4°60′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 21°25′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 14°19′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 17°47′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 23°50′ (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 square Sun 1.1°
  • Ceres square Sun 1.3°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.1°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 2.5°

Nicolas’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Venus; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Nicolas’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.

  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.9°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.0°
  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.5°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.6°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 1.6°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.7°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 2.2°
  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.4°

Born the same day as Nicolas

Vanessa Hudgens was born on December 14, 1988 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 49.1°N, Lisieux keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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Nicolas’s cards

Computed from December 14, 1988. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Nicolas’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q352114 (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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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 Nicolas Batum.

Quick answers about Nicolas Batum’s chart

How old is Nicolas Batum?
Nicolas Batum is 37 years old, born December 14, 1988 in Lisieux, France.
What zodiac sign is Nicolas Batum?
Nicolas Batum is a Sagittarius: born December 14, 1988, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Nicolas Batum's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 14, 1988 birth.
How tall is Nicolas Batum?
Nicolas Batum is 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Nicolas Batum's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Nicolas Batum's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Nicolas Batum's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Nicolas Batum's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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