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, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Pierre-Gilles
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.
What Pierre-Gilles’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
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-Gilles’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Pierre-Gilles apart
PewDiePie (1989) and Malcolm Turnbull (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Pierre-Gilles sits
Six lines
Pierre-Gilles’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 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.
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 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Three stars chosen from the real sky above 16th arrondissement of Paris 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 16th arrondissement of Paris that night
Computed for 48.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at 16th arrondissement of Paris at 9 p.m. that evening: Caph of Cassiopeia, within 11.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 97 catalog stars were up in all.
At 48.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from 16th arrondissement of Paris at all: they sit past the −41.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 28% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Pierre-Gilles's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 4 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Leo 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
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
stableUranussquarePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.0° to 3.3° orb
stableVenussextilePluto3.1° to 4.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.8° to 6.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 27°24′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 19°39′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 14°25′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 15°22′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 19°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Pierre-Gilles’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Pierre-Gilles’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 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°
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Born in France
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Fellow Scorpio suns
- Alison DoodyIrish actress and model
- Albert HallAmerican actor
- Sean YoungAmerican actress
Born in Monkey years
- Henri VeesaarEstonian basketball player (born 2004)
- Dereck Lively IIAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Pat ConnaughtonAmerican baseball and basketball player
Also born on October 24
- PewDiePie1989
- Malcolm Turnbull1954
- Raye1997
- Jaylen Brown1996
- Zac Posen1980
- Adrienne Bailon-Houghton1983
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Hank GreenAmerican author, vlogger, and science communicator
- Sheynnis PalaciosNicaraguan model, periodista
- James NortonBritish actor
Other Scorpio Monkey charts
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- Dick DurbinUnited States Senator from Illinois
Other Steadfast Architects
- Paul WinfieldAmerican actor
- Leo G. CarrollBritish actor
- Jürgen ProchnowGerman actor
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Famous people with Life Path 4
- Yanic NiederhäuserSwiss basketball player (born 2003)
- Andrew WigginsCanadian basketball player (born 1995)
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Pierre-Gilles’s cards
Computed from October 24, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
4 · Architect♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Pierre-Gilles’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q187224 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.
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.
- 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 was Pierre-Gilles de Gennes's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Pierre-Gilles de Gennes's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
