Yann Martel
Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963, Salamanca, Spain), aged 63, is a Canadian writer. Martel is best known for Life of Pi. Martel's honours include Booker Prize, Companion of the Order of Canada and Journey Prize.
Yann Martel’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Water Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Yann
Yann Martel’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Yann in the U.S.?
#7659
US rank in 2025
~346
Americans share it since 1984
2006
its peak year
US records hold Yann from 1984 onward, though not for 1963 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2006 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Yann’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on Y (7) and closes on N (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
Yann’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1963, 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 Yann apart
Life of Pi. That is the work the name is attached to.
Study took Yann Martel to Trinity College School and Trent University.
Yann Martel was 30 when the work began in 1993.
On the family side, Yann Martel was born to Émile Martel.
George Michael and Li Shufu shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Life of Pi
- Educated at
- Trinity College School and Trent University
- Awards
- Booker Prize (2002), Journey Prize (1991) and Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (2003)
- Working from
- 1993
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Languages
- French and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
What the chart says
Yann, according to the stars
Core essence
Yann feels the room before entering it. The core of Yann is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Yann, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Yann wants to be loved
Yann 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 Yann like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Yann creates
How Yann makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Yann creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Yann is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Yann is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Yann 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 Yann's birth date. Working below.
Where Yann sits
Six lines
Yann’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Yann Martel
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Salamanca 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 Salamanca that night
Computed for 40.97°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Salamanca at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 8.6° of the exact zenith.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Salamanca sits at 41.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Salamanca at all: they sit past the −49.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 0° below the horizon, Moon up and 22% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Yann'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.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Yann Martel's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 25, 1963, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Yann Martel's birth date, June 25, 1963, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Yann’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yann Martel's date-only chart is Venus sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, 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.
- Yann Martel combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Yann’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.0° to 7.9° orb
Yann’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.4° to 1.5° orb
Yann’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableSunsextileUranus0.6° to 1.5° orb
Yann’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.1° to 1.5° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune1.2° to 1.7° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.5° to 3.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.6° to 2.1° orb
stableMercurysquareMars1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussquareMars3.3° to 4.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.4° to 5.0° orb
stableVenussquarePluto4.9° to 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Yann’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°53′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 17°34′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 27°58′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 5°34′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 7°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Venus 0.5°
- Chiron square Mercury 0.8°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.8°
- Ceres square Venus 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.5°
Yann’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Yann’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 biquintile Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 1.0°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 2.2°
Born the same day as Yann
2 other people here were born on June 25, 1963, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Salamanca, at 41.0°N, nothing below −49.0° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Yann
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Born in Spain
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More charts like Yann’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Jacques PerrinFrench actor and film producer
- Alessio BoniItalian actor
- Leonardo SbaragliaArgentine actor
Born in Rabbit years
- Darwin NúñezUruguayan association football player
- Aurélien TchouaméniFrench footballer (born 2000)
- Alexis SaelemaekersBelgian footballer (born 1999)
Also born on June 25
- George Orwell1903
- George Michael1963
- Anthony Bourdain1956
- Alexei Abrikosov1928
- Ricky Gervais1961
- Dikembe Mutombo1966
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Chase InfinitiAmerican actress (born 2000)
- Gable StevesonAmerican wrestler (born 2000)
- Justin JeffersonAmerican football player (born 1999)
Other Cancer Rabbit charts
- AnnaLynne McCordAmerican actress
- Nadya Sulemanmother of octuplets
- Ed WestwickEnglish actor and musician
- Charlie ApplebyBritish racehorse trainer
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Collin GillespieAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Jabari WalkerAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Tristan da SilvaGerman basketball player (born 2001)
- Li ShufuChinese billionaire entrepreneur (born 1963)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Satya NadellaIndian-American business executive and CEO of Microsoft
- Cara DelevingneEnglish model and actor
- Evan Rachel WoodAmerican actress
From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Yann’s cards
Computed from June 25, 1963. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Yann’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13914 (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 Shane Lin from Seattle, WA, USA, aka 'About Malenkov in Exile' on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Yann Martel at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Yann Martel.
Quick answers about Yann Martel’s chart
- How old is Yann Martel?
- Yann Martel is 63 years old, born June 25, 1963 in Salamanca, Spain.
- What zodiac sign is Yann Martel?
- Yann Martel is a Cancer: born June 25, 1963, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Yann Martel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 25, 1963 birth.
- What is Yann Martel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Yann Martel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Yann Martel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Yann Martel's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
