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François Jacob

François Jacob’s birth chart

Born 17 June 1920, in Nancy, France. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.

Gemini Sun · Cancer Moon

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François Jacob’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief

François Jacob was born in Nancy, France, on 17 June 1920, a Thursday. The Sun was in Gemini, so Gemini was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Cancer. François died on 20 April 2013, aged 92. StarMap has no verified birth time for François, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.

Of the ten planets, four are in water signs, three in air, two in fire and one in earth. By modality the count is four cardinal, four mutable and two fixed. Three planets stand together in Cancer: Moon, Mercury and Pluto. Closest of the aspects is the opposition between Saturn and Uranus, about 0.6° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Uranus was retrograde. Over the course of the day the Moon went from new to waxing crescent.

StarMap's dataset holds 16 other people born on 17 June, among them Venus Williams, Jordan Henderson and Tigran Petrosian.

See the sky the day François was born: the stars over Nancy, France, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.

François Jacob’s Sun, Moon and rising sign

Sun sign

Gemini

about 25° Gemini at midday

A Gemini Sun connects. Ideas, people and conversations are its element, and François Jacob probably learns by talking things through. This placement is happiest with two projects and a question nobody has answered yet.

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Moon sign

Cancer

in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time

The Moon is at home in Cancer. For François that points to feelings that are tidal, strong and closely tied to the people they love, and to a memory for how everything felt. This Moon is restored by home, by cooking, and by being needed.

Everyone with the Moon in Cancer

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 Nancy, France, at each hour of the day.

François Jacob’s rising sign, by birth time

StarMap has not verified a birth time for François 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 17 June 1920, computed for Nancy, France.

Rising sign by time of birth, local time
Born around (local time)Rising sign
00:00 to 00:55Pisces rising
00:55 to 01:55Aries rising
01:55 to 03:10Taurus rising
03:10 to 04:55Gemini rising
04:55 to 07:25Cancer rising
07:25 to 10:10Leo rising
10:10 to 12:55Virgo rising
12:55 to 15:40Libra rising
15:40 to 18:25Scorpio rising
18:25 to 20:50Sagittarius rising
20:50 to 22:40Capricorn rising
22:40 to 23:55Aquarius rising
23:55 to 24:00Pisces rising

Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.

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Placements

François Jacob’s planets by sign
Sun25° Gemini 55'
MoonCancer
Mercury17° Cancer 59'
Venus21° Gemini 24'
Mars22° Libra 55'
Jupiter15° Leo 29'
Saturn6° Virgo 15'
Uranus5° Pisces 39'℞
Neptune9° Leo 38'
Pluto6° Cancer 59'
North Node14° Scorpio 59'
South Node14° Taurus 59'

Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.

François Jacob’s planets, sign by sign

Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about François Jacob’s private life.

  1. Sun in Gemini

    25° Gemini 55' at midday

    purpose and vitality

    For François Jacob, the Sun in Gemini means vitality that comes from variety, and purpose that feels most real when they are learning or explaining something new. What suffers is focus, with energy scattered across too many half-finished things at once. Several projects and three hobbies on the go at the same time would be in character.

  2. Moon in Cancer

    Cancer, all day

    needs and habits

    With the Moon in Cancer, François's needs tend to be tied to home, routine and the people they check in on daily. Small rituals are steadying: a particular meal, a particular chair. The tension is reading other people's moods so closely that those moods can be taken on without noticing.

  3. Mercury in Cancer

    17° Cancer 59' at midday

    mind and voice

    Mercury in Cancer thinks in terms of memory and feeling as much as logic, and François probably communicates best when there is emotional trust in the room. Mood can colour how a fact gets delivered or received. Years after the details have faded, this is a mind that remembers exactly how a conversation felt.

  4. Venus in Gemini

    21° Gemini 24' at midday

    love and values

    Venus in Gemini loves through conversation, wit and mental connection, and tends to find a dull partner harder to stay with than a challenging one. François probably values variety and being kept interested. Attention may wander with this Venus, and that can be treated as more serious than it is. Banter is the natural way to flirt here, more than anything more direct.

  5. Mars in Libra

    22° Libra 55' at midday

    drive and anger

    In François's chart, Mars in Libra acts diplomatically and prefers negotiation to confrontation, and its anger tends to stay buried until it is too big to ignore. Avoided consistently, conflict leaves resentment building underneath the calm surface. The pattern is saying yes to something that rankled, then feeling it later.

  6. Jupiter in Leo

    15° Leo 29' at midday

    growth and excess

    Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For François 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.

  7. Saturn in Virgo

    6° Virgo 15' at midday

    discipline and doubt

    Competence is what Saturn in Virgo builds discipline around, often driven by a fear of not yet having done enough to deserve rest. François 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.

  8. Uranus in Pisces

    5° Pisces 39' at midday ℞

    freedom, generational

    François 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.

  9. Neptune in Leo

    9° Leo 38' at midday

    imagination, generational

    Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of François 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.

  10. Pluto in Cancer

    6° Cancer 59' at midday

    power, generational

    Pluto in Cancer dates François 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 François Jacob’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.

  1. Saturn opposition Uranus

    about 0.6° at midday

    Saturn opposite Uranus wants stability, and wants enough freedom that the stability never starts to feel like a cage. For François Jacob, building in room to change course from the start tends to work better than choosing one need and resenting the other later.

  2. Saturn sextile Pluto

    about 0.7° at midday

    No crisis is needed to bring out François'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.

  3. Venus trine Mars

    about 1.5° at midday

    François is likely to have a warm, confident way of going after what, and who, they want, since affection and drive back each other up. Romance and creative work tend to come without strain under this trine, in a manner other people find refreshingly straightforward.

  4. Sun trine Mars

    about 3.0° at midday

    Confidence and drive move in the same direction for François, so they are likely to act on their goals with very little inner resistance. The energy of a Sun-Mars trine is uncomplicated, and other people notice it and often want to be near it.

  5. Sun conjunction Venus

    about 4.5° at midday

    Who François is and what they love are likely to be closely bound, so their identity has relationships and beauty at its centre rather than at its edge. People with the Sun conjunct Venus tend to give affection openly, and their sense of self can rise and fall a little with how appreciated they feel.

  6. Mercury square Mars

    about 4.9° at midday

    With Mercury square Mars, thought and impulse can clash, and sharp words get said before François has fully thought them through. The remedy is a short pause between the thought and the sentence, which changes very little except the outcome.

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 1.3°
  • Jupiter conjunction Neptuneabout 5.8°

Gemini Sun and Cancer Moon, like François Jacob

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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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