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Pierre Deligne

Pierre Deligne (born October 3, 1944, Etterbeek, Belgium), aged 82, is a Belgian mathematician. Deligne's honours include Fields medal, Balzan Prize and Abel Prize.

Pierre Deligne’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Pierre Deligne’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Pioneer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#1253

US rank in 2025

~19,143

Americans share it since 1880

1988

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1944, Pierre came 672nd, carried by 86 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Pierre’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

2

Soul Urge · closeness

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on P (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Pierre’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Blush · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1944, 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 Pierre apart

Pierre Deligne took the Cours Peccot in 1971, at 27.

Université libre de Bruxelles and Athénée Adolphe Max shaped the training.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Pierre Deligne: Arithmetic geometers, Scientists from Brussels and Viscounts of Belgium.

Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981) and Gwen Stefani (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Université libre de Bruxelles, Athénée Adolphe Max and Free University of Brussels
Awards
Fields medal (1978), Abel Prize (2013) and Balzan Prize (2004)
Citizenship
Belgium
Languages
French and English
Wikipedia editions
40

What the chart says

Pierre, according to the stars

Core essence

Pierre makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Pierre is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

How Pierre wants to be loved

Pierre 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 Pierre even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Pierre creates

How Pierre makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Pierre 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: Pierre is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Pierre is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Pierre fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Pierre's birth date. Working below.

Where Pierre sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Pierre

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Pierre

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Pierre

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Pierre

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Pierre

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Pierre

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Pierre Deligne

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Etterbeek on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Pierre’s birth-night reference starDenebwhite · CygnusDeneb, in Cygnus. A white star, 82.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 19.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Etterbeek that night

Computed for 50.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Etterbeek at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.6° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 94 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 50.8°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 Etterbeek at all: they sit past the −39.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 96% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 25° down.

How unusual Pierre's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart

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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Libra Sun

Beauty matters. So does balance.

Pierre Deligne's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 3, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Wood Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

Pierre Deligne was born on October 3, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

Pierre Deligne's birth date, October 3, 1944, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Pierre’s chart

Pierre’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 5° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.3° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.8° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.9° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.1° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.5° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 4° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.4° orbSun in Libra · 10°06′☉10°Moon in Aries · 28°16′☽28°Mercury in Virgo · 27°06′☿27°Venus in Scorpio · 6°23′♀6°Mars in Libra · 23°14′♂23°Jupiter in Virgo · 14°48′♃14°Saturn in Cancer · 10°25′♄10°Uranus in Gemini · 13°03′ · retrograde♅℞13°Neptune in Libra · 4°13′♆4°Pluto in Leo · 9°56′♇9°

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

  • stableSunsquareSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Pierre’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Pierre’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus1.6° to 1.9° orb

    Pierre’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSuntrineUranus2.4° to 3.4° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto2.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto3.1° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn3.4° to 4.6° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn4.3° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.4° to 6.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 8.0° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo 24°14′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 19°43′ (moves 0.45° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Taurus 10°54′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 25°40′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Saturn 0.5°
  • Eros square Pluto 1.0°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.7°
  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.9°

Pierre’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Pierre’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
  • Venus biquintile Uranus 0.7°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 1.3°

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Pierre’s cards

Computed from October 3, 1944. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Pioneer

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

4 · Architect

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Pierre’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q334045 (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 "copyright C. J. Mozzochi, Princeton N.J", Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Pierre Deligne at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Pierre Deligne.

Quick answers about Pierre Deligne’s chart

How old is Pierre Deligne?
Pierre Deligne is 82 years old, born October 3, 1944 in Etterbeek, Belgium.
What zodiac sign is Pierre Deligne?
Pierre Deligne is a Libra: born October 3, 1944, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Pierre Deligne's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 3, 1944 birth.
What is Pierre Deligne's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Pierre Deligne's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Pierre Deligne's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Pierre Deligne's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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