Serge Schmemann
Serge Schmemann (born April 14, 1945, France), aged 81, is an American journalist. Schmemann's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Serge Schmemann’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rooster, with 
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Serge Schmemann’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Serge in the U.S.?
#8794
US rank in 2025
~1,628
Americans share it since 1880
1972
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Serge’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Serge, according to the stars
Core essence
Serge 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 Serge 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, Serge is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Serge needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Serge wants to be loved
Serge wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Serge creates
How Serge makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Serge creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Serge is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Serge is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Serge leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Serge slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Serge's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Serge sits
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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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Serge Schmemann's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 14, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Serge Schmemann was born on April 14, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Serge Schmemann's birth date, April 14, 1945, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Serge’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Serge Schmemann's date-only chart is Saturn square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Serge Schmemann combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Serge’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Serge Schmemann, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Taurus 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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.5° to 2.3° orb
Serge’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
Serge’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.3° to 2.9° orb
Serge’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussextilePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
Serge’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.7° to 3.6° orb
Serge’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.4° to 3.5° orb
Serge’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
Serge’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareUranus4.9° to 5.6° orb
Serge’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.9° to 6.0° orb
Serge’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 5.6° to 20.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Serge’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 ℞Virgo 28°25′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Serge turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 3°05′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Serge is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCancer 23°40′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Serge is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 9°31′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Serge is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Serge that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Eros square Sun 0.4°
- Eros square Mercury 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.0°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 1.6°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.2°
- Eros square Venus 2.5°
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°).
Serge’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. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Serge is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Serge’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 Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Serge Schmemann, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Serge
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- David Horsey1951
- Bernard L. Stein1941
- Craig Flournoy1951
- Jon Franklin1942
- Louis Kilzer1951
Born in France
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- Gérard WertheimerFrench businessman
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Born in Rooster years
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- Miranda CosgroveAmerican actress and producer
Also born on April 14
- Sarah Michelle Gellar1977
- Adrien Brody1973
- Abigail Breslin1996
- Georgina Chapman1976
- Rob McElhenney1977
- Chase Young1999
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- George SaundersAmerican writer (born 1958)
- Julian BarnesEnglish writer (born 1946)
- Michael OndaatjeCanadian novelist and poet (born 1943)
Other Aries Rooster charts
- Zaccharie RisacherFrench basketball player (born 2005)
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- Aday MaraSpanish basketball player (born 2005)
- Josephine SkriverDanish model (born 1993)
Other Tidal Strategists
- Prince Harry, Duke of SussexYounger son of Charles III of the United Kingdom and Diana, Princess of Wales
- Emily BluntBritish actress
- Alanis MorissetteCanadian-American singer
- Arno Allan PenziasGerman-born American physicist
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Ashley MadekweEnglish actress and fashion blogger
- Debbie MatenopoulosAmerican television host, journalist, and lifestyle expert
- Ebon Moss-BachrachAmerican actor
From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Serge’s cards
Every card is computed from April 14, 1945, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Serge Schmemann, 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
Serge’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4525665, 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.
The same Serge Schmemann 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Serge Schmemann.
Quick answers about Serge Schmemann’s chart
- How old is Serge Schmemann?
- Serge Schmemann is 81 years old, born April 14, 1945 in France.
- What zodiac sign is Serge Schmemann?
- Serge Schmemann is an Aries: born April 14, 1945, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster.
- What is Serge Schmemann's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 14, 1945 birth.
- What time was Serge Schmemann 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 is Serge Schmemann's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the April 14, 1945 birth date.
- What is Serge Schmemann's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 14, 1945 birth date.
- Where is Serge Schmemann's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Serge Schmemann's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
