Albert Camus’s birth chart
Born 7 November 1913, in Dréan, Algeria, at 02:00 (Rodden AA).
Scorpio Sun · Aquarius Moon · Virgo rising
Albert Camus’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Albert Camus was born on Friday, 7 November 1913, in Dréan, Algeria. That made Albert a Scorpio, with the Moon in Aquarius and Virgo rising. Albert died on 4 January 1960, aged 46. The birth time, 02:00, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was quoted from a birth certificate or birth record.
Of the ten planets, four are in air signs, four in water, one in fire and one in earth. By modality the count is five cardinal, three fixed and two mutable. Cancer holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Mars, Neptune and Pluto. The tightest aspect is Sun sextile Jupiter, 0.2° from exact. Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 11 other people born on 7 November, among them David Guetta, David de Gea and Lorde.
See the sky the night Albert was born: the stars over Dréan, Algeria at 02:00, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Albert Camus’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Scorpio
14° Scorpio 04'
A Scorpio Sun goes deep. Surface answers are unlikely to satisfy Albert Camus, and with this Sun, loyalty, once given, tends to be total. This placement is built for transformation: it ends chapters fully so the next one can begin.
Moon sign
Aquarius
28° Aquarius 30'
An Aquarius Moon feels from a step back. Albert is likely to understand an emotion better than they inhabit it, and to need space and ideas to process. For this Moon, friends are family and freedom is security.
Rising sign
Virgo
24° Virgo 34'
Virgo rising gives Albert a first impression that is precise, observant and modest. People tend to trust the judgement of a Virgo rising and sometimes mistake that reserve for coolness, until they see how much help is on offer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 02:00 on 7 November 1913, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 14° Scorpio 04' | House 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 28° Aquarius 30' | House 6 |
| Mercury | 6° Sagittarius 44' | House 3 |
| Venus | 20° Libra 51' | House 1 |
| Mars | 22° Cancer 06' | House 10 |
| Jupiter | 13° Capricorn 50' | House 4 |
| Saturn | 16° Gemini 57'℞ | House 9 |
| Uranus | 3° Aquarius 51' | House 5 |
| Neptune | 28° Cancer 13'℞ | House 11 |
| Pluto | 0° Cancer 54'℞ | House 10 |
| North Node | 22° Pisces 53' | House 6 |
| South Node | 22° Virgo 53' | House 12 |
Albert Camus’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Albert Camus’s private life.
The Sun in Scorpio finds purpose in going past the surface of things, and Albert Camus's vitality tends to be fuelled by intensity rather than ease. The catch can be needing a crisis or a deep dive before they feel fully engaged. Small talk tends to bore them; a subject that interests them absorbs them completely.
The Sun in the second house rests Albert's sense of worth on what is built and looked after over time, not on one good season. They feel most confident when the things they own and make reflect their own taste, their own standards and their own pace.
An Aquarius Moon processes daily feelings by stepping back and thinking them through rather than sitting inside them, and Albert is likely to need a degree of independence built into any close relationship. The temptation is to analyse a feeling instead of simply having it. Even after a good day with people, this Moon needs time alone to recover.
The Moon in the sixth house ties the sense that all is well to daily routine, and an unpredictable schedule can leave Albert more rattled than the problem itself warrants. Small, dependable habits, kept even loosely, calm them faster than anything else.
Albert's Mercury in Sagittarius thinks in big, connective leaps and communicates with enthusiasm and a wide frame of reference drawn from everywhere they have been. The weak point is generalising past what the details support. A specific question may get a sweeping theory nobody quite asked for.
The third house is Mercury's natural home, and words, ideas and quick exchanges come more easily to Albert than to most people. Someone with this placement is often the fastest talker or the sharpest writer in the room.
Venus in Libra loves with an instinct for balance and partnership, and Albert probably values harmony, fairness and someone who makes an effort to look good together. The risk with this Venus is staying in a relationship for the sake of the pairing itself. Albert may give up a personal preference before anyone has even asked.
Venus in the first house is associated with warmth and charm in a person's manner, and Albert is likely to come across as easy to like before much else is known. Personal style, whatever form it takes, is part of the appeal with this placement and not an accessory to it.
Mars in Cancer acts to protect the people and things that matter, and its anger is usually about feeling hurt more than feeling wronged. The habit to watch, for Albert, may be going quiet or indirect instead of naming the upset. Other people tend to notice a shift of mood and take a while to trace it back to its cause.
Mars in the tenth house makes ambition the driving force, and Albert is apt to push hard towards a public goal once their sights are set on it. Competition at work sharpens their focus where it might intimidate someone else, and a proper challenge can bring out Albert's best effort.
Jupiter in Capricorn
13° Capricorn 50' · fourth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Capricorn grows through long-term discipline, and Albert would probably rather build slowly and properly than quickly. The overreach is taking on more responsibility than any one person should reasonably carry. The authority this Jupiter brings is slow and hard-won, the kind people tend to trust more the longer they know someone.
With Jupiter in the fourth house, Albert probably likes a home with room in it, for more people, more projects and the warmth visitors feel on coming through the door. A generous, welcoming household may matter more to Albert than a tidy or impressive one.
Saturn in Gemini builds discipline around clear expression, and it often begins with doubt about whether an idea is good enough to say out loud. For Albert that would mean overpreparing before speaking or writing anything. Once the self-consciousness eases, the result can be someone unusually precise and credible with words.
With Saturn in the ninth house, Albert takes a more serious, structured approach to ideas, education and travel than people who treat those things lightly. A rigorous education or a well-tested philosophy probably matters more with this placement than any quick, easy answer.
Uranus in Aquarius
3° Aquarius 51' · fifth house
freedom, generational
Uranus is at home in Aquarius, and many people born in the years around Albert's birth have it too. The generation is defined by rapid technological and social change within a single lifetime. One person's share of it is an unusually easy relationship with disruption and reinvention.
Uranus in the fifth house gives creativity and romance a spark of the unexpected, and a predictable routine in either is apt to leave Albert restless. The people and projects that appeal with this placement tend to be the ones that surprise, not the ones that confirm what is already known.
Neptune in Cancer
28° Cancer 13' ℞ · eleventh house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Albert and many people born in the same decade or so. The generation idealises home and family, often carrying a wider nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never quite have existed. Personally it can be a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
Friendships and causes with an idealistic edge draw Albert, who may hold a vision for their community that reaches well beyond the practical. With Neptune in the eleventh house, disappointment can follow when a group falls short of that vision, even when its effort was sincere.
Pluto in Cancer
0° Cancer 54' ℞ · tenth house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Albert to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Influence may matter more to Albert than surface status, and with Pluto in the tenth house, a working life that stops meaning something may well be reinvented. Pluto here is associated with caring more about public power than public popularity, two things that are easy to confuse.
Aspects in Albert Camus’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Sun sextile Jupiter
0.2° separating
Optimism is part of who Albert Camus is, and it tends to show them open doors, provided they are willing to walk through. With some deliberate effort behind it, the outlook of a Sun-Jupiter sextile becomes momentum that carries past the first burst of enthusiasm.
Venus square Mars
1.2° applying
Desire and the need for harmony can clash where Venus squares Mars, and Albert may be caught between wanting something and wanting to keep the peace. What the aspect asks for is a want voiced directly, before it leaks out sideways.
Moon trine Pluto
2.4° applying
Albert is likely to come through even difficult emotions stronger rather than depleted, because feeling and the capacity for change support each other. The resilience of a Moon-Pluto trine is quiet, the sort that other people only notice in hindsight.
Mercury sextile Uranus
2.9° separating
Fresh angles on ordinary problems come easily to Albert, because thinking and originality are friends here. Inventiveness takes little effort with this aspect, and it makes routine problems more interesting than they first appear.
Venus trine Saturn
3.9° separating
A steady, dependable way of loving, one that people trust, is what this trine gives Albert, since affection and commitment hold each other up. Relationships built on it tend to last, often well past the point where less committed people would have moved on.
Mars conjunction Neptune
6.1° applying
Drive is idealistic and imaginative where Mars meets Neptune, and Albert is likely to act most powerfully in the service of something they believe in. The energy is inspired. What it wants is a big vision grounded in a plan specific enough to carry out.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Uranus opposition Neptune5.6°
- Moon trine Venus7.6°
Scorpio Sun and Aquarius Moon, like Albert Camus
Also born on 7 November
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (Quoted BC/BR). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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