Under Your Stars
Search
Marcel Proust
Photo credit

Famous birth charts

Marcel Proust’s birth chart

NovelistBorn July 10, 1871, 16th arrondissement of Paris, FranceDied November 18, 1922

Tender under a careful shell.

  • SunCancerThe Protector
  • MoonAriesor Taurus
  • VenusVirgoThe Quiet Romantic

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he was

    Sun in Cancer, the Protector

    Tender under a careful shell. Makes a home anywhere and guards the people inside it. His mind and his identity were close together: he spoke as he thought, and his ideas were part of who he was.

    The Sun conjunction Mercury (close at 1.2°)

  2. What he needed

    Moon in Aries or Taurus, the Quick Flame

    Feels in bursts, honestly and all at once. Hates sitting still with a mood, and needs a way to act on it. His moods changed without warning, and he wanted closeness and room to breathe at the same time.

    The Moon square Uranus (close at 2.2°) · For a birth after 3:02 p.m., his Moon was in Taurus.

  3. How he loved

    Venus in Virgo, the Quiet Romantic

    Modest in love and devoted to the bone. Proves feelings through actions rather than speeches. Loyal in love: he chose carefully, and what he built with people lasted.

    Venus trine Saturn (close at 2.7°)

  4. How he thought

    Mercury in Cancer, the Remembering Mind

    Thinks with feeling and remembers everything that mattered. Speaks kindly and reads between the lines. A probing mind: he got to the bottom of things, and his words had power when he chose to use them.

    Mercury sextile Pluto (wide at 3.1°)

  5. What drove him

    Mars in Libra, the Negotiator

    Gets things done through people, charm and fairness. Prefers teamwork to a fight, and fights hardest for others. He took on more than any one person could, and his boldness ran ahead of his plans.

    Mars square Jupiter (almost exact at 0.6°)

  6. The shape of his chart

    In his chart, his identity, his mind, his optimism and his independence (the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus) gather in Cancer, and that part of life drew his attention first. The weight of his chart sits in water signs: feeling and intuition.

Your own chart, read the same way

The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    Marcel Proust was born seven days before a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 41% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Monday, eighteen days after the June solstice.

  • Saturn return

    For Marcel Proust, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1900, at 29: his first Saturn return. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Cancer

You and Marcel Proust

Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets his, and the signs you share.

Or someone you know: a partner, a friend or a parent. Compare two charts

The chart

Point at a body or a sign to see its connections.

The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.

Marcel Proust’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

More with the Sun in Cancer

See all

Also born on July 10

Questions about his chart

What is Marcel Proust’s zodiac sign?

Cancer. Marcel Proust was born on July 10, 1871, with the Sun in Cancer, the Protector. Tender under a careful shell. Makes a home anywhere and guards the people inside it.

What is Marcel Proust’s Moon sign?

Aries or Taurus. The Moon moved from Aries into Taurus at 3:02 p.m. that day, local time: in Aries for a birth before then, in Taurus for one after.

What is Marcel Proust’s rising sign?

The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on July 10, 1871. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Marcel Proust’s Venus sign?

Virgo, the Quiet Romantic. Modest in love and devoted to the bone. Proves feelings through actions rather than speeches.

How does your chart compare with Marcel Proust’s?

Set your chart beside Marcel Proust’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.

Sources and credits

Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Marcel Proust’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Otto Wegener, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The file and its full credit.

The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.

A correction, or a request to take this page down: hello@underyourstars.com.

To cite this page: Marcel Proust’s birth chart, Under Your Stars, https://underyourstars.com/people/marcel-proust