Victor Grignard
Victor Grignard (born May 6, 1871, Cherbourg, France; died 1935), was a French chemist. Grignard's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Victor Grignard’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Victor
Victor Grignard’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Victor in the U.S.?
#211
US rank in 2025
~332,220
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
No US figure exists for 1871 — the SSA series begins 9 years later. Victor opened it at 136th, 100 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Victor’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on V (4) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Victor’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
The record
What sets Victor apart
Victor Grignard took the Jecker Prize in 1906, at 35.
The classrooms behind this chart: Faculté des Sciences de Lyon.
The grave is at Guillotière New Cemetery.
Victor Grignard was married Augustine Marie Boulant.
Wikipedia's editors put Victor Grignard under People from Manche, French organic chemists and Chemical warfare.
Sigmund Freud (1856) and George Clooney (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Faculté des Sciences de Lyon
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1912), Jecker Prize (1906) and Officer of the Legion of Honour (1920)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Buried at
- Guillotière New Cemetery
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French
- Wikipedia editions
- 79
What the chart says
Victor, according to the stars
Core essence
Victor is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Victor is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Victor wants to be loved
Victor wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Victor like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Victor creates
How Victor 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. Victor 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: Victor is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Victor 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 Victor leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Victor 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 Victor's birth date. Working below.
Where Victor sits
Six lines
Victor’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 Victor Grignard
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cherbourg 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 Cherbourg that night
Computed for 49.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cherbourg was Phecda, in Ursa Major, 85.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 95 catalog stars were up in all.
Cherbourg sits at 49.6°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −40.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cherbourg on any night.
Sun 11° below the horizon, Moon down and 95% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cherbourg, France
The death is recorded at 7th arrondissement of Lyon, Lyon in 1935.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Victor Grignard: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Victor's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Taurus · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Victor Grignard's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 6, 1871, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatArtist first, everything second.
Victor Grignard was born on May 6, 1871, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Victor Grignard's birth date, May 6, 1871, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Victor’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Victor Grignard's date-only chart is Uranus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Victor Grignard combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Victor’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableUranussquareNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
Victor’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareMars0.7° to 1.8° orb
Victor’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMarstrinePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
Victor’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileNeptune1.3° to 2.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableSuntrineMars3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableMarssextileUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.8° to 4.0° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.7° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.3° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 1.4° to 16.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Victor’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 9°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 13°27′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 0°57′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 26°56′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.2°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.0°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.8°
Victor’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Victor’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.8°
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Victor’s cards
Computed from May 6, 1871. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Victor’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104582 (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 Fotograv. - Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalt Stockholm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Victor Grignard at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Victor Grignard.
Quick answers about Victor Grignard’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Victor Grignard?
- Victor Grignard was a Taurus: born May 6, 1871, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Victor Grignard's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 6, 1871 birth.
- What was Victor Grignard's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Victor Grignard's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Victor Grignard's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Victor Grignard's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
