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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Saint-John
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.
What Saint-John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on S (1) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Saint-John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Saint-John apart
Clint Eastwood (1930) and Colin Farrell (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Saint-John sits
Six lines
Saint-John’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Saint-John Perse
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pointe-à-Pitre 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 Pointe-à-Pitre that night
Computed for 16.24°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Pointe-à-Pitre was Arcturus, in Boötes, 84.9° up.
Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Pointe-à-Pitre sits at 16.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 71% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 35° down.
How unusual Saint-John's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · No Fire planets
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
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.
What Gemini means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.4° to 5.7° orb
stableUranustrinePluto4.8° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.3° to 6.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto5.7° to 6.6° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.7° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.5° to 6.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 23°35′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 9°31′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 10°12′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 22°01′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 2°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Saint-John’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Saint-John’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.3°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.9°
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Saint-John’s cards
Computed from May 31, 1887. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Saint-John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q132684 (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 UnknownUnknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Saint-John Perse at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Saint-John Perse's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Saint-John Perse's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
