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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rooster, with 
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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.
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~689,424
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Patrick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Patrick Modiano, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Aries 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.
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
Patrick’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileNeptune2.2° to 3.1° orb
Patrick’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.5° to 3.4° orb
Patrick’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLibra 0°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Patrick is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresScorpio 2°03′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Patrick is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosLibra 19°00′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Patrick is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 13°12′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Patrick is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 28°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Patrick that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.6°
- Eros square Saturn 1.6°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.8°
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°).
Patrick’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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Patrick is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Patrick’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Patrick Modiano, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Patrick’s cards
Every card is computed from July 30, 1945, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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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
No birth time is on public record for Patrick Modiano, 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
Patrick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q222944, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster.
- 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 time was Patrick Modiano 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 Patrick Modiano's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the July 30, 1945 birth date.
- What is Patrick Modiano's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 30, 1945 birth date.
- 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.
