Roger Martin du Gard
Roger Martin du Gard (born March 23, 1881, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; died 1958), was a French writer. Gard is best remembered for Jean Barois and The Thibaults. Gard's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris.
Roger Martin du Gard’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Roger
Roger Martin du Gard’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Roger in the U.S.?
#834
US rank in 2025
~443,830
Americans share it since 1880
1953
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1881, Roger came 305th, carried by 29 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Roger’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on R (9) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Roger’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Silver
The record
What sets Roger apart
What keeps Roger Martin du Gard in print: The Thibaults and Jean Barois.
Lycée Janson-de-Sailly and Lycée Condorcet shaped the training.
The grave is at Cimetière de Cimiez.
Roger Martin du Gard was married Hélène Foucault.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Roger Martin du Gard: École Nationale des Chartes alumni, Lycée Condorcet alumni and Writers from Neuilly-sur-Seine.
The same date carries Hermann Staudinger. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- The Thibaults and Jean Barois
- Educated at
- Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, Lycée Condorcet and École des chartes
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Literature (1937), Commander of the Legion of Honour (1951) and Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris (1937)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Buried at
- Cimetière de Cimiez
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French
- Wikipedia editions
- 101
What the chart says
Roger, according to the stars
Core essence
Roger leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Roger is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Roger is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Roger needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Roger wants to be loved
Roger wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Roger is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Roger creates
How Roger makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Roger creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Roger is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Roger 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Roger goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Roger's birth date. Working below.
Where Roger sits
Six lines
Roger’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Roger Martin du Gard
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Neuilly-sur-Seine 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 Neuilly-sur-Seine that night
Computed for 48.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Neuilly-sur-Seine at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 48.9°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −41.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 42% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 25° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
The death is recorded at Château du Tertre, Belforêt-en-Perche in 1958.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Roger Martin du Gard: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Roger's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Roger Martin du Gard's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 23, 1881, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakePrivate by design.
Roger Martin du Gard was born on March 23, 1881, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Roger Martin du Gard's birth date, March 23, 1881, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Roger’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Roger Martin du Gard's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Roger Martin du Gard combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Roger’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Capricorn 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
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.3° to 0.5° orb
Roger’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.5° to 2.2° orb
Roger’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.7° orb
Roger’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.9° to 2.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.6° to 4.2° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter3.6° to 4.1° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.8° to 5.5° orb
stableVenussquareMars6.7° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Roger’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 14°38′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°50′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 27°03′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 12°52′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.0°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.3°
- Eros sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.0°
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 2.1°
Roger’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus8 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Roger’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Jupiter, SaturnThree 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.
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
Born the same day as Roger
Hermann Staudinger was born on March 23, 1881 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Neuilly-sur-Seine, at 48.9°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
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Other Radiant Strategists
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- Trent Alexander-ArnoldEnglish association football player (born 1998)
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Famous people with Life Path 8
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Roger’s cards
Computed from March 23, 1881. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Roger’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q129155 (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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Roger Martin du Gard at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Roger Martin du Gard.
Quick answers about Roger Martin du Gard’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Roger Martin du Gard?
- Roger Martin du Gard was an Aries: born March 23, 1881, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Roger Martin du Gard's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 23, 1881 birth.
- What was Roger Martin du Gard's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Roger Martin du Gard's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Roger Martin du Gard's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Roger Martin du Gard's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
