Boris Vian’s birth chart
Born 10 March 1920, in Ville-d'Avray, France. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Pisces Sun · Moon in Scorpio or Sagittarius
Boris Vian’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Boris Vian was born on Wednesday, 10 March 1920, in Ville-d'Avray, France. That made Boris a Pisces. The Moon left Scorpio for Sagittarius at about 22:35 local time, which leaves the Moon sign open without a birth time. Boris died on 23 June 1959, aged 39. StarMap has no verified birth time for Boris, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
Of the nine planets whose sign does not depend on the birth time, four are in water signs, three in fire, one in earth and one in air. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is two, four and three. Closest of the aspects is the square between Mars and Jupiter, about 0.1° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Four planets were retrograde all day: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. Mercury changed direction that day, turning retrograde, so whether it was retrograde at the birth depends on the hour. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 10 March, among them Osama bin Laden, Chuck Norris and Sharon Stone. Wikidata links Boris with one person in the dataset: Hildegard Knef (listed as partners in Wikidata).
See the sky the day Boris was born: the stars over Ville-d'Avray, France, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Boris Vian’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
about 19° Pisces at midday
A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make Boris Vian the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Scorpio or Sagittarius
Scorpio until about 22:35, then Sagittarius (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 22:35: Moon in Scorpio
The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For Boris that suggests trust that is slow, private and absolute; betrayal, once it happens, is not forgotten. This Moon is restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.
Born after about 22:35: Moon in Sagittarius
A Sagittarius Moon feels best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter probably lift Boris, and being fenced in by other people's moods tends to weigh them down. This Moon needs room, and someone who thinks that is fine.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Ville-d'Avray, France, at each hour of the day.
Boris Vian’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Boris yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 10 March 1920, computed for Ville-d'Avray, France.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 01:15 | Scorpio rising |
| 01:15 to 03:40 | Sagittarius rising |
| 03:40 to 05:30 | Capricorn rising |
| 05:30 to 06:45 | Aquarius rising |
| 06:45 to 07:40 | Pisces rising |
| 07:40 to 08:40 | Aries rising |
| 08:40 to 09:55 | Taurus rising |
| 09:55 to 11:40 | Gemini rising |
| 11:40 to 14:10 | Cancer rising |
| 14:10 to 16:55 | Leo rising |
| 16:55 to 19:40 | Virgo rising |
| 19:40 to 22:25 | Libra rising |
| 22:25 to 24:00 | Scorpio rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 10 March 1920, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 19° Pisces 35' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Scorpio until about 22:35, then Sagittarius |
| Mercury | 4° Aries 40'turned retrograde that day |
| Venus | 19° Aquarius 57' |
| Mars | 8° Scorpio 58' |
| Jupiter | 9° Leo 03'℞ |
| Saturn | 7° Virgo 23'℞ |
| Uranus | 2° Pisces 40' |
| Neptune | 9° Leo 10'℞ |
| Pluto | 5° Cancer 41'℞ |
| North Node | 17° Scorpio 12' |
| South Node | 17° Taurus 12' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Boris Vian’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Boris Vian’s private life.
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and Boris Vian's vitality tends to ebb and flow with their surroundings. The thing to watch is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. There may be days when they feel unstoppable, and others when they need to disappear for a while.
Moon in Scorpio or Sagittarius
Scorpio until about 22:35, then Sagittarius
needs and habits
Born before about 22:35: Moon in Scorpio
For Boris, the Moon in Scorpio means emotional needs that run deep and private, and a preference for managing a hard feeling alone over explaining it while it is still raw. Trust builds slowly and is rarely given back once broken. Even among the people closest to them, this Moon is likely to need real privacy.
Born after about 22:35: Moon in Sagittarius
The Moon in Sagittarius needs room to move and a bit of novelty in its routine to feel right. A schedule with no give in it can make Boris edgy faster than most people expect. With this Moon, the next trip tends to be planned before the current one has finished.
Mercury in Aries suggests that Boris thinks in quick, decisive strokes and says what they mean without much preamble. Sometimes the words arrive before the thought is fully formed, which can come across sharper than intended. It is a mind that finishes other people's sentences and prefers a fast decision to a long meeting.
Venus in Aquarius loves as a friend first, and values independence, shared ideas and a partner who allows plenty of room. Boris may keep just enough distance that closeness feels slightly out of reach, even to them. This Venus can prize a partner's individuality more than the intimacy between them.
In Boris's chart, Mars in Scorpio acts with focus and intensity, and its anger, when it surfaces, tends to be controlled, cutting and hard to forget. The risk with this Mars is holding on to a grievance well past its useful life. A calm exterior gives little warning before a sharp response.
Jupiter in Leo
9° Leo 03' at midday ℞
growth and excess
Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For Boris the overreach may be overselling their own contribution or expecting more credit than a situation calls for. There is a natural showmanship here that lifts a room, and occasionally a story that grows a little in the retelling.
Competence is what Saturn in Virgo builds discipline around, often driven by a fear of not yet having done enough to deserve rest. Boris may feel like a fraud even when the track record says otherwise. The usual result is someone quietly excellent at something long before they will admit it out loud.
Uranus in Pisces
2° Pisces 40' at midday
freedom, generational
Boris has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
Neptune in Leo
9° Leo 10' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Boris alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Pluto in Cancer
5° Cancer 41' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Boris 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.
Aspects in Boris Vian’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Mars square Jupiter
about 0.1° at midday
Drive can outrun capacity under Mars square Jupiter, and Boris Vian may overextend on a project or on a promise made in a burst of confidence. The enthusiasm is sound. It needs matching to a pace that can be sustained.
Jupiter conjunction Neptune
about 0.1° at midday
For Boris, growth is likely to be idealistic and compassionate, a matter of causes, beliefs or visions bigger than daily concerns. Jupiter conjunct Neptune supplies the inspiration and leaves them the job of checking a beautiful idea against what can be achieved.
Mars square Neptune
about 0.2° at midday
Under this square, drive can dissolve into confusion or self-doubt just when clarity matters most, especially around goals that involve other people's expectations. It helps Boris to separate the plan itself from the feeling of overwhelm that surrounds it.
Mercury square Pluto
about 1.0° at midday
A simple disagreement can turn into something more charged when Mercury is square Pluto, as Boris looks for motives that may not be there. The lesson is trusting a straightforward answer when the evidence supports one, rather than assuming the deeper explanation is always the true one.
Mars sextile Saturn
about 1.6° at midday
Sustained effort feels manageable, not draining, when Mars and Saturn are in sextile, and Boris has that combination of drive and discipline. What results is quiet, dependable follow-through, the kind that gets a long project finished while flashier approaches give out halfway.
Saturn sextile Pluto
about 1.7° at midday
No crisis is needed to bring out Boris's resilience, because discipline and depth are on working terms in this sextile. Long, steady effort tends to be rewarded in ways that build quietly over time, not all at once.
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 trine Plutoabout 3.0°
- Mars trine Plutoabout 3.3°
- Mercury trine Jupiterabout 4.4°
- Mercury trine Neptuneabout 4.5°
- Saturn opposition Uranusabout 4.7°
- Mars trine Uranusabout 6.3°
Boris Vian in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Pisces Suns born within 2 years of Boris Vian
Also born on 10 March
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; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their 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. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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