Serge Merlin
Serge Merlin (born December 29, 1932, Oued Tlélat, Algeria; died 2019), was a French actor. Merlin's honours include Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
Serge Merlin’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Serge
Serge Merlin’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Serge in the U.S.?
#8794
US rank in 2025
~1,628
Americans share it since 1914
1972
its peak year
Serge ranked 2,302nd in 1932, the year of this birth, with 12 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Serge’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on S (1) 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
Serge’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1932, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Serge apart
Serge Merlin took the Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism in 1991, at 59.
The working life starts in 1952, at 20.
Wikipedia's editors put Serge Merlin under People from Oran Province, French people of colonial Algeria and Male actors from Paris.
Jude Law (1972) and Victor Osimhen (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism (1991) and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2014)
- Working from
- 1952
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French
- Wikipedia editions
- 12
What the chart says
Serge, according to the stars
Core essence
Serge is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Serge is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Serge wants to be loved
Serge wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Serge and watch them fall for you again.
How Serge creates
How Serge makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Serge builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Serge 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 2 is the peacemaker. Serge is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Serge 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 Serge's birth date. Working below.
Where Serge sits
Six lines
Serge’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 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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Serge Merlin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oued Tlélat 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 Oued Tlélat that night
Computed for 35.55°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Oued Tlélat was Atik, in Perseus, 86.0° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 35.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −54.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Oued Tlélat on any night.
The Moon, 8% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Oued Tlélat, Algeria
The death is recorded at 13th arrondissement of Paris, Paris in 2019.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Serge Merlin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Serge's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Serge Merlin's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 29, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Serge Merlin was born on December 29, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Serge Merlin's birth date, December 29, 1932, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Serge’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Serge Merlin's date-only chart is Venus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Serge Merlin combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Serge’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 12° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableVenussquareNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
Serge’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Serge’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableMercurysquareMars0.5° to 1.5° orb
Serge’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineNeptune2.0° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus2.4° to 3.6° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter5.6° to 5.8° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune5.7° to 7.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.3° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune7.2° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Serge’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 24°11′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 10°48′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 11°45′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 11°01′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 26°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.1°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.6°
Serge’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Serge’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 biquintile Pluto 0.2°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.3°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 2.0°
More people like Serge
Other actors
- Kim Novak1933
- Peter O'Toole1932
- Fred Willard1933
- Anthony Perkins1932
- Jacques d'Amboise1934
- George Chakiris1932
Born in Algeria
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- Claude Cohen-TannoudjiFrench physicist (1933-)
- Albert CamusFrench philosopher, author, and journalist
- Yves Saint LaurentFrench fashion designer
- KhaledAlgerian musician
- Imane KhelifAlgerian boxer
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Also born on December 29
- Jude Law1972
- Victor Osimhen1998
- Wynton Rufer1962
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
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Serge’s cards
Computed from December 29, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
2 · Diplomat♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Serge’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3479446 (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.
The same Serge Merlin at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Serge Merlin.
Quick answers about Serge Merlin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Serge Merlin?
- Serge Merlin was a Capricorn: born December 29, 1932, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Serge Merlin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 29, 1932 birth.
- What was Serge Merlin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Serge Merlin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Serge Merlin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Serge Merlin's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
