Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano (born July 30, 1945, Boulogne-Billancourt, France), aged 81, is a French writer. Modiano is best known for Dora Bruder, Villa Triste and Un pedigree. Modiano's honours include Officer of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Prix Goncourt.
Patrick Modiano’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Patrick
Patrick Modiano’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Patrick in the U.S.?
#235
US rank in 2025
~689,424
Americans share it since 1880
1964
its peak year
Patrick ranked 63rd among boys and 2,318th among girls in 1945, the year of this birth, with 3,854 American boys and 15 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Patrick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on P (7) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Patrick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
The record
What sets Patrick apart
Henry Ford (1863) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Patrick, according to the stars
Core essence
Patrick is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Patrick is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Patrick runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Patrick needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Patrick wants to be loved
Patrick wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Patrick like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Patrick creates
How Patrick makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Patrick creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Patrick is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Patrick 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Patrick scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Patrick's birth date. Working below.
Where Patrick sits
Six lines
Patrick’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Patrick Modiano
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boulogne-Billancourt 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 Boulogne-Billancourt that night
Computed for 48.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Boulogne-Billancourt at 9 p.m. that evening: Edasich of Draco, within 10.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
Boulogne-Billancourt sits at 48.8°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −41.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Boulogne-Billancourt on any night.
Sun -4° below the horizon, Moon down and 63% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Patrick's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →Patrick Modiano at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Patrick Modiano's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 30, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Patrick Modiano was born on July 30, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
Patrick Modiano's birth date, July 30, 1945, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Patrick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Patrick Modiano's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Patrick Modiano combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Patrick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Aries 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
stableVenussquareJupiter0.3° to 1.2° orb
Patrick’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.3° to 0.9° orb
Patrick’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileMars1.9° to 2.2° orb
Patrick’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercurysquareMars2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.5° to 3.4° orb
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 1.2° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 3.1° to 16.4° depending on birth time
possibleMarssextilePlutoorb from 4.6° to 5.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Patrick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 0°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 2°03′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 19°00′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 13°12′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 28°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.6°
- Eros square Saturn 1.6°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.8°
Patrick’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Patrick’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 Saturn 0.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
More people like Patrick
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- Michel LaurentFrench photographer
- RufusFrench actor and comedian
More charts like Patrick’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Olivia HoltAmerican actress and singer (born 1997)
- Greta GerwigAmerican actress and filmmaker (born 1983)
- Brad GoreskiCanadian television personality
Born in Rooster years
- Paul KagamePresident of Rwanda since 2000
- Renée ZellwegerAmerican actress
- Matthew McConaugheyAmerican actor
Also born on July 30
- Henry Ford1863
- Arnold Schwarzenegger1947
- Christopher Nolan1970
- Lisa Kudrow1963
- Kate Bush1958
- Terry Crews1968
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Timothy WeahAmerican soccer player
- Saša KalajdžićAustrian association football player
- Kaan AyhanTurkish association football player (born 1994)
Other Leo Rooster charts
- Andrei OkounkovRussian mathematician
- Simon DonaldsonEnglish mathematician
- Richard ErnstSwiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate
- Douglas OsheroffAmerican physicist
Other Gilded Lightkeepers
- Yuito SuzukiJapanese association football player
- Thelo AasgaardNorwegian footballer (born 2002)
- Joaquin SeysBelgian footballer (born 2005)
- Memphis DepayDutch association football player (born 1994)
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Artem ChigvintsevRussian dancer
- Giada De LaurentiisItalian-American chef, writer, and television personality
- Hugh DancyEnglish actor (born 1975)
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Patrick’s cards
Computed from July 30, 1945. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
11 · Visionary☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Patrick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q222944 (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 Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Patrick Modiano at Wikipedia, lereseaumodiano.blogspot.com, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Patrick Modiano.
Quick answers about Patrick Modiano’s chart
- How old is Patrick Modiano?
- Patrick Modiano is 81 years old, born July 30, 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
- What zodiac sign is Patrick Modiano?
- Patrick Modiano is a Leo: born July 30, 1945, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Patrick Modiano's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 30, 1945 birth.
- What is Patrick Modiano's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Patrick Modiano's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Patrick Modiano's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Patrick Modiano's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
