Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (born October 24, 1932, Paris, France; died 2007), was a French physicist. Gennes's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Lorentz Medal and Prix Ampère.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Monkey, with 
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
Pierre-Gilles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Pierre-Gilles, according to the stars
Core essence
Pierre-Gilles does not do surface. The core of Pierre-Gilles is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Pierre-Gilles is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Pierre-Gilles needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Pierre-Gilles needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Pierre-Gilles wants to be loved
Pierre-Gilles wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Pierre-Gilles and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Pierre-Gilles creates
How Pierre-Gilles makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Pierre-Gilles creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Pierre-Gilles 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Pierre-Gilles 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Pierre-Gilles fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Pierre-Gilles'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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 24, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was born on October 24, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes's birth date, October 24, 1932, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Pierre-Gilles’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Pierre-Gilles de Gennes' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Pierre-Gilles’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Leo 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.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.5° to 1.8° orb
Pierre-Gilles’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineUranus1.3° to 1.8° orb
Pierre-Gilles’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.9° to 2.8° orb
Pierre-Gilles’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareMars2.3° to 3.3° orb
Pierre-Gilles’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranussquarePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
Pierre-Gilles’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.0° to 3.3° orb
Pierre-Gilles’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextilePluto3.1° to 4.3° orb
Pierre-Gilles’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.8° to 4.8° orb
Pierre-Gilles’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.0° to 5.1° orb
Pierre-Gilles’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.8° to 6.0° orb
Pierre-Gilles’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Pierre-Gilles’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 27°24′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Pierre-Gilles building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 19°39′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Pierre-Gilles caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosVirgo 14°25′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Pierre-Gilles is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaLibra 15°22′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Pierre-Gilles is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 19°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Pierre-Gilles is read as immovable on those points.
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 trine Venus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.3°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.0°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.1°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 2.9°
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°).
Pierre-Gilles’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. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Pierre-Gilles is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Pierre-Gilles’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 quintile Saturn 0.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.6°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.2°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Pierre-Gilles’s cards
Every card is computed from October 24, 1932, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, 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
Pierre-Gilles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q187224, 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 Dominique Morisseau Laboratoire de Physique et d'Etude des Matériaux (LPEM) ESPCI Paris 10 rue Vauquelin 75005 Paris, France, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
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Quick answers about Pierre-Gilles de Gennes’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Pierre-Gilles de Gennes?
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a Scorpio: born October 24, 1932, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Monkey.
- What was Pierre-Gilles de Gennes's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 24, 1932 birth.
- What time was Pierre-Gilles de Gennes 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 was Pierre-Gilles de Gennes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the October 24, 1932 birth date.
- What was Pierre-Gilles de Gennes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 24, 1932 birth date.
- Where was Pierre-Gilles de Gennes's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Pierre-Gilles de Gennes's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
