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Yves Chauvin

Yves Chauvin (born October 10, 1930, Menen, Belgium; died 2015), was a French chemist. Chauvin's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit and Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit.

Yves Chauvin’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Yves Chauvin’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Diplomat

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Yves in the U.S.?

#5598

US rank in 2025

~1,261

Americans share it since 1916

1985

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Yves falls under that line for 1930. Its peak came in 1985, and 1,261 Americans have carried it since 1916.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Yves’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 Y (7) and closes on S (1).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Yves’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

Amber · Blush · 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 1930, 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 Yves apart

Yves Chauvin took the Carl Engler Medal in 1994, at 64.

École supérieure de chimie physique électronique de Lyon shaped the training.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Yves Chauvin: People from Menen, Belgian emigrants to France and French Nobel laureates.

The same date carries Harold Pinter. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
École supérieure de chimie physique électronique de Lyon
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2005), Carl Engler Medal (1994) and Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (2014)
Citizenship
France
Languages
French
Wikipedia editions
60

What the chart says

Yves, according to the stars

Core essence

Yves makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Yves is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Yves 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 Yves needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Yves wants to be loved

Yves wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Yves even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Yves creates

How Yves makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Yves 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: Yves is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Yves is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Yves does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Yves's birth date. Working below.

Where Yves sits

Six lines

Yves’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Yves

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Yves

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Yves

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Yves

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Yves

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Yves

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Yves Chauvin

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Menen on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Yves’s birth-night reference starAlderaminwhite · CepheusAlderamin, in Cepheus. A white star, 75.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alderamin →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 28.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Menen that night

Computed for 50.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alderamin stood nearest the zenith over Menen at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.1° above the horizon in Cepheus.

Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 50.8°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 Menen at all: they sit past the −39.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 35° below the horizon, Moon up and 91% lit at waning gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Menen, Belgium
Lived in
Paris

Wikidata records Paris as Yves Chauvin's home, against Menen as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Tours, arrondissement of Tours in 2015.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Yves Chauvin: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Yves's chart is

Chart pattern score

31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Jupiter · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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If you only read one paragraph

Libra Sun

Every side of every argument.

Yves Chauvin's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 10, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Metal Horse

Bright, restless, warm.

Yves Chauvin was born on October 10, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 6

Home is the project.

Yves Chauvin's birth date, October 10, 1930, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Yves’s chart

Yves’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.1° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.2° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.3° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.7° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.7° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.2° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 4° orbSun in Libra · 16°27′☉16°Moon in Taurus · 17°52′☽17°Mercury in Virgo · 29°04′☿29°Venus in Scorpio · 28°58′♀28°Mars in Cancer · 24°57′♂24°Jupiter in Cancer · 19°12′♃19°Saturn in Capricorn · 6°01′♄6°Uranus in Aries · 13°15′ · retrograde♅℞13°Neptune in Virgo · 4°51′♆4°Pluto in Cancer · 20°52′♇20°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Yves’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune1.2° orb

    Yves’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.6° to 1.7° orb

    Yves’s growth and depths act as one.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSunoppositionUranus2.7° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercurysextileMars3.7° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.8° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto3.9° to 4.9° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars3.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter5.5° to 6.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune5.6° to 6.2° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus5.9° to 6.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Yves’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 17°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 9°33′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosGemini 29°35′ (moves 0.70° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 17°47′

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 26°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Mercury 0.5°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.3°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.4°
  • Chiron sextile Pluto 3.0°

Yves’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Yves’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.6°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.7°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.0°

Born the same day as Yves

Harold Pinter was born on October 10, 1930 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 50.8°N, Menen keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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Yves’s cards

Computed from October 10, 1930. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Yves’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q202146 (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 Barney Grubbs derivative work: MagentaGreen, Ephraim33, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Yves Chauvin at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Yves Chauvin.

Quick answers about Yves Chauvin’s chart

What zodiac sign was Yves Chauvin?
Yves Chauvin was a Libra: born October 10, 1930, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Yves Chauvin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 10, 1930 birth.
What was Yves Chauvin's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was Yves Chauvin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Yves Chauvin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Yves Chauvin's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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