Vanessa Paradis
Vanessa Paradis (born December 22, 1972, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France, 05:10), aged 53, is a French singer, model and actress. Best-known releases include M&J and Vanessa Paradis. Paradis's honours include Knight of the Legion of Honour, César Award and Prix Romy Schneider.
Vanessa Paradis’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Vanessa
Vanessa Paradis’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 Vanessa in the U.S.?
#377
US rank in 2025
~262,606
Americans share it since 1900
1985
its peak year
Vanessa ranked 133rd among girls and 3,606th among boys in 1972, the year of this birth, with 2,280 American girls and 9 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Vanessa’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on V (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Vanessa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3
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 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Vanessa apart
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887) and Ralph Fiennes (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French and English
What the chart says
Vanessa, according to the stars
Core essence
Vanessa is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Vanessa 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Vanessa is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Vanessa needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Vanessa wants to be loved
Vanessa 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 Vanessa and watch them fall for you again.
How Vanessa creates
How Vanessa makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Vanessa creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Vanessa is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Vanessa 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Vanessa runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Vanessa's birth date. Working below.
Where Vanessa sits
Six lines
Vanessa’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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Vanessa Paradis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Saint-Maur-des-Fossés on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Saint-Maur-des-Fossés at 05:10, Vanessa Paradis’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Saint-Maur-des-Fossés that night
Computed for 48.80°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 82.8° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 48.8°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Saint-Maur-des-Fossés at all: they sit past the −41.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 96% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 33° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France
- Lives in
- Paris
Wikidata records Paris as Vanessa Paradis's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Shared Places reads Paris as weak for this chart: 44 of 100, 86th of 154 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is São Paulo, Brazil, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Vanessa's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Peacemaker 天同 in 酉
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Outer world
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
19 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree · 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.
Score your own chart →Vanessa Paradis in 15 seconds
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Vanessa Paradis's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What Capricorn means →Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Vanessa Paradis was born on December 22, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Vanessa Paradis's birth date, December 22, 1972, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Vanessa’s chart
- One of the ten planets sits in angular houses in Vanessa Paradis' timed chart: Mars in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Vanessa Paradis' timed chart is Venus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Vanessa Paradis 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.
Vanessa’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
VenussextilePlutoapplying · 0.1° orb
Vanessa’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoontrineMarsseparating · 0.7° orb
Vanessa’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.5° orb
Vanessa’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 1.7° orb
MoonsquareUranusseparating · 2.5° orb
SunsquarePlutoapplying · 3.9° orb
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 4.8° orb
MercuryoppositionSaturnapplying · 5.3° orb
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 6.4° orb
MercuryconjunctionVenusseparating · 6.5° orb
JupitersquareUranusapplying · 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Vanessa’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 12°51′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 19°39′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 15°49′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 1°18′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 3°39′ · House 2
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Saturn 0.2°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.9°
- Eros trine Ascendant 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Ascendant 2.0°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.2°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.7°
Vanessa’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Vanessa’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.
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Mercury 0.8°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
Vanessa’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 12 | Mars | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 3 | Mercury, Venus, Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Capricorn | Saturn in Gemini, house 8 | Sun, Jupiter | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 12 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aries | Mars in Scorpio, house 1 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Taurus | Venus in Sagittarius, house 2 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Gemini | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 2 | Saturn | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Cancer | Moon in Cancer, house 9 | Moon | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 3 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Virgo | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 2 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Libra | Venus in Sagittarius, house 2 | Uranus, Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Vanessa’s cards
Computed from December 22, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Vanessa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51023 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Vanessa Paradis.
Quick answers about Vanessa Paradis’s chart
- How old is Vanessa Paradis?
- Vanessa Paradis is 53 years old, born December 22, 1972 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France.
- What zodiac sign is Vanessa Paradis?
- Vanessa Paradis is a Capricorn: born December 22, 1972, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
- What is Vanessa Paradis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 22, 1972 birth.
- What time was Vanessa Paradis born?
- 05:10 local time in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Vanessa Paradis's rising sign?
- Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 05:10 birth time in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Vanessa Paradis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Vanessa Paradis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Vanessa Paradis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 3°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Vanessa Paradis's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
