Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse (born May 31, 1887, Pointe-à-Pitre, France; died 1975), was a French poet and diplomat. Perse is best remembered for Amers, Praises and Anabase. Perse's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Saint-John Perse’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Pig, with 
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Saint-John Perse’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
Saint-John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Saint-John, according to the stars
Core essence
Saint-John is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Saint-John needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Saint-John wants to be loved
Saint-John wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Saint-John gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Saint-John creates
How Saint-John 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. Saint-John 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: Saint-John 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Saint-John is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Saint-John scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Saint-John's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Saint-John sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Saint-John Perse's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 31, 1887, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Pig
Fire PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Saint-John Perse was born on May 31, 1887, which falls in a Fire 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 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Saint-John Perse's birth date, May 31, 1887, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Saint-John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Saint-John Perse's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Saint-John Perse combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Saint-John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Saint-John Perse, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn0.1° to 1.2° orb
Saint-John’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineUranus0.9° to 1.9° orb
Saint-John’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.3° to 3.0° orb
Saint-John’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune2.7° to 3.4° orb
Saint-John’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.4° to 5.7° orb
Saint-John’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranustrinePluto4.8° orb
Saint-John’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareJupiter5.3° to 6.5° orb
Saint-John’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunconjunctionPluto5.7° to 6.6° orb
Saint-John’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.7° orb
Saint-John’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.5° to 6.7° orb
Saint-John’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Saint-John’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 23°35′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Saint-John turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresAries 9°31′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Saint-John looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosLibra 10°12′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Saint-John is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaCancer 22°01′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Saint-John is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 2°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Saint-John carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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 sextile Sun 0.3°
- Eros trine Sun 0.4°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 1.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.9°
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°).
Saint-John’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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Saint-John 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 Saint-John’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 Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Mars, PlutoThree 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 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.
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.3°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Saint-John Perse, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Saint-John’s cards
Every card is computed from May 31, 1887, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Saint-John Perse, 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
Saint-John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q132684, 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 UnknownUnknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Saint-John Perse at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Saint-John Perse.
Quick answers about Saint-John Perse’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Saint-John Perse?
- Saint-John Perse was a Gemini: born May 31, 1887, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig.
- What was Saint-John Perse's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 31, 1887 birth.
- What time was Saint-John Perse 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 Saint-John Perse's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the May 31, 1887 birth date.
- What was Saint-John Perse's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 31, 1887 birth date.
- Where was Saint-John Perse's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Saint-John Perse's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
