René Thom
René Thom (born September 2, 1923, Montbéliard, France; died 2002), was a French mathematician. Thom is best remembered for Thom–Sebastiani Theorem, Thom's second isotopy lemma and Thom's first isotopy lemma. Thom's honours include Fields medal, National Order of Scientific Merit and Brouwer Medal.
René Thom’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Pig, with 
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René Thom’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
René’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
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What the chart says
René, according to the stars
Core essence
René notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of René is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How René wants to be loved
René 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 René and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How René creates
How René 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. René 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: René is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. René is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means René channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from René'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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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René Thom at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
René Thom's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 2, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
René Thom was born on September 2, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
René Thom's birth date, September 2, 1923, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in René’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in René Thom's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- René Thom combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
René’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for René Thom, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
René’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.4° to 1.6° orb
René’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.0° to 2.3° orb
René’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineUranus2.2° to 2.4° orb
René’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextilePluto2.6° to 3.6° orb
René’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrinePluto3.8° orb
René’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
René’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquarePluto5.6° to 6.5° orb
René’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.6° to 6.2° orb
René’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.7° to 5.8° orb
René’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunoppositionUranus6.4° to 7.4° orb
René’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
René’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 ℞Aries 20°25′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: René may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 1°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. René is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosGemini 15°01′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. René is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 9°00′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has René needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 7°25′ (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. René 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.
- Hygiea opposition Sun 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.6°
- Eros square Uranus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.5°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.7°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 2.2°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 2.6°
- Eros trine Saturn 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°).
René’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: René is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 René’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.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, MarsThree 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.
Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.9°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for René Thom, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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René’s cards
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☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for René Thom, 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
René’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q164428, 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 Konrad Jacobs, Erlangen, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same René Thom at Wikipedia.
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 René Thom’s chart
- What zodiac sign was René Thom?
- René Thom was a Virgo: born September 2, 1923, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig.
- What was René Thom's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 2, 1923 birth.
- What time was René Thom 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 René Thom's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 2, 1923 birth date.
- What was René Thom's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 2, 1923 birth date.
- Where was René Thom's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was René Thom's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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