Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent (born August 1, 1936, Oran, Algeria; died 2008), was a French fashion designer. Laurent is best remembered for Le Smoking and Yves Saint Laurent. Laurent's honours include Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour and CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award.
Yves Saint Laurent’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Yves
Yves Saint Laurent’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
US records hold Yves from 1916 onward, though not for 1936 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1985 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Yves’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
6
Soul Urge · being needed
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on Y (7) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
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
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
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 1936, 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
The record Yves Saint Laurent is measured by: Yves Saint Laurent and Le Smoking.
Yves Saint Laurent was 19 when the work began in 1955.
The record gives brain tumor as the cause, and Marrakech as the resting place.
On the family side, Yves Saint Laurent was married Pierre Bergé.
Wikipedia files Yves Saint Laurent under Art collectors from Paris, French Army personnel and Deaths from brain cancer in France.
Georges Charpak (1924) and Jason Momoa (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Yves Saint Laurent and Le Smoking
- Awards
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (2007) and CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award (1999)
- Working from
- 1955
- Cause of death
- brain tumor
- Buried at
- Marrakech
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French
- Wikipedia editions
- 77
What the chart says
Yves, according to the stars
Core essence
Yves is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Yves is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Yves is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Yves needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Yves wants to be loved
Yves wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Yves openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Yves creates
How Yves makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Yves creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Yves 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Yves 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 Yves leads without needing to do it alone.
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.
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 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.
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 Yves Saint Laurent
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oran 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 Oran that night
Computed for 35.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Oran at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 11.6° of the exact zenith.
Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Oran sits at 35.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Oran at all: they sit past the −54.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 20° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Oran, Algeria
The death is recorded at 7th arrondissement of Paris, Paris in 2008.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Yves Saint Laurent: 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
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Leo · No Air planets
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 →Yves Saint Laurent in 15 seconds
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Yves Saint Laurent's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 1, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Yves Saint Laurent was born on August 1, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Yves Saint Laurent's birth date, August 1, 1936, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Yves’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yves Saint Laurent's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Air signs in this chart.
- Yves Saint Laurent combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Yves’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Capricorn 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
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Yves’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Yves’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.4° orb
Yves’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineSaturn2.0° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.3° to 4.3° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter2.8° to 4.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.8° to 3.4° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter5.2° to 6.2° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.6° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Yves’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 21°14′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 18°53′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 18°27′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 26°58′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 22°55′ (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 0.6°
- Ceres square Venus 0.7°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.3°
- Ceres trine Saturn 3.0°
Yves’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Yves’s chart
Stellium in Leo · 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.8°
More people like Yves
Other businesspeople
- Robert Noyce1927
- Rei Kawakubo1942
- Carlos Menem1930
- Lee Kun-hee1942
- Rupert Murdoch1931
- Martha Stewart1941
Born in Algeria
- Claude Cohen-TannoudjiFrench physicist (1933-)
- KhaledAlgerian musician
- Serge MerlinFrench actor
- Imane KhelifAlgerian boxer
- Saadi YacefAlgerian guerilla
- Albert CamusFrench philosopher, author, and journalist
More charts like Yves’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Brannon Bragatelevision producer
- Stanley KubrickAmerican filmmaker and photographer
- Clifford D. SimakAmerican writer, journalist
Born in Rat years
- Richard BlaisAmerican chef
- Billy CrystalAmerican actor, comedian, writer, producer, director and television presenter (born 1948)
- Chase Chrisleytelevision personality
Also born on August 1
- Georges Charpak1924
- Jason Momoa1979
- Coolio1963
- Ray Dalio1949
- Riccardo Tisci1974
- Adam Duritz1964
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Chris KirkpatrickAmerican singer and dancer
- Penn JilletteAmerican magician and actor (born 1955)
- Eric JohnsonAmerican football player
Other Leo Rat charts
- Hao JingfangChinese science fiction writer (1984-)
- Susan WoodCanadian writer
- Buddy GuyAmerican blues guitarist and singer
- Daichi KamadaJapanese association football player
Other Evergreen Scholars
- Carl SaganAmerican astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
- Justin Trudeau23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025
- Kate WinsletEnglish actress
- Sophia LorenItalian actress
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Khaled HosseiniAfghan novelist
- Gabriel BoricPresident of Chile from 2022 to 2026
- Tony AbbottPrime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Yves’s cards
Computed from August 1, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Yves’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q171556 (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 L'Espresso, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Yves Saint Laurent at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Yves Saint Laurent.
Quick answers about Yves Saint Laurent’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Yves Saint Laurent?
- Yves Saint Laurent was a Leo: born August 1, 1936, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Yves Saint Laurent's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 1, 1936 birth.
- What was Yves Saint Laurent's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Yves Saint Laurent's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Yves Saint Laurent's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Yves Saint Laurent's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
