Famous birth charts · Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent’s chart in full
Born August 1, 1936, Oran, Algeria. The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
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The chart, fact by fact
Planets
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The ten bodies astrology reads: the Sun, the Moon and eight planets. The planet says which part of a person it speaks for, the sign says how that part behaves, and the house says where in life it shows.
Sun in Leo
The Bright One. Warm, proud and generous.
9°02′
Moon in Capricorn
The Steady Hand. Steady feeling, kept in check.
17°53′
Mercury in Leo
The Storyteller. A voice that carries.
18°02′
Venus in Leo
The Romantic. Grand, generous love.
18°11′
Mars in Cancer
The Defender. Fierce for its own.
24°13′
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Jupiter in Sagittariusretrograde
The Globetrotter. The horizon is the point.
14°45′
Saturn in Piscesretrograde
The Kind Realist. Boundaries for a big heart.
21°52′
Uranus in Taurus
9°31′
Neptune in Virgo
15°09′
Pluto in Cancer
27°18′
Beyond the planets
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Points read beside the planets. The rising sign, or Ascendant, is the sign coming up over the eastern horizon at the minute of birth: the first impression. The Midheaven is the highest point of the sky: career and public life. The North Node is where the Moon’s path crosses the Sun’s: the direction a life grows in. Chiron, a small body between Saturn and Uranus, is a lifelong sore spot and the gift it leaves for others. Black Moon Lilith, where the Moon’s orbit swings farthest from Earth, is what a person keeps untamed.
North Node in Capricorn
The direction his life grows in: Capricorn, ambitious and patient.
3°10′
Chiron in Gemini
In Gemini, Chiron is an old fear of not being heard, which becomes a gift for finding the words others lack.
21°14′
Black Moon Lilith in Libra
In Libra, Lilith is the one who stops keeping the peace at any price.
23°00′
The rising sign and the Midheaven need the birth time to the minute, so they are left out.
Patterns
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When several aspects lock into one shape, such as a triangle or a cross, the planets in it act together, and the shape says how: easily, under strain, or with one planet as the focus.
Stellium
Three or more planets gathered in one sign or one house, so that part of the chart speaks loudest.
In his chart, his identity, his mind and his heart (the Sun, Mercury and Venus) gather in Leo, and that part of life drew his attention first.
Aspects by strength
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An aspect is a set angle between two bodies in the sky at birth. Some angles flow, some rub, and some fuse two bodies into one. The number is how far the angle is from exact: the smaller it is, the stronger the link.
Only the aspects that held from the first minute of the day to the last are shown; each figure is for noon.
Mercury conjunction Venus almost exact at 0.1°
Words with charm in them: he had an ear for a beautiful phrase, and people liked listening to him.
Jupiter square Neptune almost exact at 0.4°
His hopes ran ahead of what was real, and he learned to check a beautiful idea against the facts.
The Sun square Uranus almost exact at 0.5°
He needed room to be himself, and any rule that fit too tightly got broken.
Mars trine Saturn close at 2.4°
His drive and his discipline worked together easily: he could push hard and keep going.
Mars conjunction Pluto wide at 3.1°
Concentrated force: when he wanted something, he went after it with everything.
Mercury trine Jupiter wide at 3.3°
A generous, wide-ranging mind: he learned easily, told a good story and saw the big picture.
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Venus trine Jupiter wide at 3.4°
Affection came to him with generosity attached: his heart and his optimism helped each other.
Saturn trine Pluto wide at 5.4°
Endurance: he could work through hard times, and what he built survived pressure.
Uranus trine Neptune wide at 5.6°
Change and idealism went together: new ideas came wrapped in dreams of a better world.
The Sun trine Jupiter wide at 5.7°
His confidence came easily and spread: he thought big, and other people wanted to come along.
Uranus trine North Node wide at 6.3°
Change helped him forward: he grew by trying the new.
Saturn opposition Neptune wide at 6.7°
The dream and the hard work seldom agreed on terms: his discipline and his imagination asked different things of him.
The Sun conjunction Mercury wide at 9.0°
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 Venus wide at 9.2°
Charm came naturally: taste, warmth and a love of beautiful things were close to his core.
Chart signature
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The chart’s balance at a glance: which of the four elements and three modes it leans on, which body is most connected, and any body standing alone.
Elements
Modes
No air at all, so stepping back to talk a thing through took deliberate effort.
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