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Simone de Beauvoir’s birth chart

PhilosopherBorn January 9, 1908, 6th arrondissement of Paris, FranceDied April 14, 1986

Serious, capable and ambitious.

  • SunCapricornThe Architect
  • MoonAriesor Pisces
  • VenusAquariusThe Kindred Spirit

What her chart says about her

  1. Who she was

    Sun in Capricorn, the Architect

    Serious, capable and ambitious. Builds a life step by step, and gets more playful and lighter with age. Her mind and her identity were close together: she spoke as she thought, and her ideas were part of who she was.

    The Sun conjunction Mercury (wide at 3.1°)

  2. What she needed

    Moon in Aries or Pisces, the Quick Flame

    Quick to feel and quick to forgive. Needs to say it, do something about it and move on.

    For a birth before 4:34 a.m., her Moon was in Pisces.

  3. How she loved

    Venus in Aquarius, the Kindred Spirit

    Loves as a friend first. Values honesty, freedom and a partner who is fully her own person. She loved too much of a good thing: pleasure, praise and grand gestures ran past what one life could use.

    Venus opposition Jupiter (wide at 5.1°)

  4. How she thought

    Mercury in Capricorn, the Planner

    Thinks practically and plans ahead. Speaks with authority and a dry sense of humour. Facts and dreams blurred together in her mind: wonderful for stories, harder when details mattered.

    Mercury opposition Neptune (close at 1.4°)

  5. What drove her

    Mars in Pisces, the Gentle Warrior

    Gentle on the surface and quietly strong. Works best for a cause worth believing in. A fierce will: she met opposition head on, and a fight brought out her full strength.

    Mars square Pluto (wide at 5.5°)

  6. The shape of her chart

    In her chart, her identity, her mind and her independence (the Sun, Mercury and Uranus) gather in Capricorn, and that part of life drew her attention first.

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The sky the day she was born

  • The Moon

    Simone de Beauvoir was born six days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 38% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Thursday, seventeen days after the December solstice.

  • Saturn return

    For Simone de Beauvoir, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 1966, at 58: her second Saturn return, after the first in 1936 and 1937. When is yours?

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Signs that click with Capricorn

You and Simone de Beauvoir

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

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The chart

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

Simone de Beauvoir’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

Together, chart beside chart

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Questions about her chart

What is Simone de Beauvoir’s zodiac sign?

Capricorn. Simone de Beauvoir was born on January 9, 1908, with the Sun in Capricorn, the Architect. Serious, capable and ambitious. Builds a life step by step, and gets more playful and lighter with age.

What is Simone de Beauvoir’s Moon sign?

Aries or Pisces. The Moon moved from Pisces into Aries at 4:34 a.m. that day, local time: in Pisces for a birth before then, in Aries for one after.

What is Simone de Beauvoir’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 January 9, 1908. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Simone de Beauvoir’s Venus sign?

Aquarius, the Kindred Spirit. Loves as a friend first. Values honesty, freedom and a partner who is fully her own person.

How does your chart compare with Simone de Beauvoir’s?

Set your chart beside Simone de Beauvoir’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 Simone de Beauvoir’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Moshe Milner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.

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

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