Gérard Philipe’s birth chart
Born 4 December 1922, in Cannes, France. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Sagittarius Sun · Gemini Moon
Gérard Philipe’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Gérard Philipe was born in Cannes, France, on 4 December 1922, a Monday. The Sun was in Sagittarius, so Sagittarius was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Gemini. Gérard died on 25 November 1959, aged 36. No verified birth time is on file for Gérard; the chart is cast for midday, without houses.
Of the ten planets, four are in water signs, three in fire and three in air; none is in earth. Fixed signs hold four, mutable signs four and cardinal signs two. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Mercury and Uranus: a square, about 0.5° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Venus, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was full.
StarMap's dataset holds ten other people born on 4 December, among them Jay-Z, Jeff Bridges and Tyra Banks.
See the sky the day Gérard was born: the stars over Cannes, France, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Gérard Philipe’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Sagittarius
about 11° Sagittarius at midday
A Sagittarius Sun seeks. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture are likely to pull Gérard Philipe forward, and the honesty of this placement is a kind of generosity. Its lesson is that the journey also needs somewhere to land.
Moon sign
Gemini
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
The Moon in Gemini processes feeling by naming it. For Gérard, talking, writing and switching perspective are likely ways to settle, and silence can make small worries loud. They probably need people who let them think out loud.
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 Cannes, France, at each hour of the day.
Gérard Philipe’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Gérard 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 4 December 1922, computed for Cannes, France.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:45 | Virgo rising |
| 00:45 to 03:20 | Libra rising |
| 03:20 to 05:55 | Scorpio rising |
| 05:55 to 08:20 | Sagittarius rising |
| 08:20 to 10:15 | Capricorn rising |
| 10:15 to 11:35 | Aquarius rising |
| 11:35 to 12:40 | Pisces rising |
| 12:40 to 13:50 | Aries rising |
| 13:50 to 15:10 | Taurus rising |
| 15:10 to 17:05 | Gemini rising |
| 17:05 to 19:30 | Cancer rising |
| 19:30 to 22:05 | Leo rising |
| 22:05 to 24:00 | Virgo 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 4 December 1922, 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 | 11° Sagittarius 34' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Gemini |
| Mercury | 10° Sagittarius 17' |
| Venus | 27° Scorpio 04'℞ |
| Mars | 24° Aquarius 50' |
| Jupiter | 8° Scorpio 11' |
| Saturn | 17° Libra 27' |
| Uranus | 9° Pisces 46' |
| Neptune | 18° Leo 08'℞ |
| Pluto | 10° Cancer 42'℞ |
| North Node | 26° Virgo 41' |
| South Node | 26° Pisces 41' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Gérard Philipe’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Gérard Philipe’s private life.
Growth, travel and ideas bigger than daily life are where Gérard Philipe's Sagittarius Sun finds purpose, and their energy tends to lift the moment there is somewhere new to go. Familiarity is what wears on this placement. A few months into any routine, however good it is, restlessness usually sets in.
The Moon in Gemini runs its daily habits on conversation and mental stimulation, and Gérard is likely to settle by talking a worry through rather than sitting with it quietly. A day with no one to talk to can leave them restless. The habit is to message a friend the moment something comes to mind, before deciding what to think about it.
Gérard'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.
Venus in Scorpio loves intensely and privately, and Gérard is likely to value depth and total honesty over ease. Testing loyalty can create the very distance this placement fears most. There is an all-or-nothing quality to how this Venus commits, with little interest in anything in between.
Mars in Aquarius acts on principle, and its anger surfaces most over unfairness or hypocrisy rather than personal slights. Gérard can detach from a conflict so thoroughly that the other person feels shut out. The issue tends to get argued with heat while the relationship itself is treated with strange calm.
Jupiter in Scorpio
8° Scorpio 11' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Scorpio grows by facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, even when that is the harder road at the time. The overreach, for Gérard, may be an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. The resilience tends to be noticed only after the hard part is over.
For Gérard, Saturn in Libra means discipline built around relationships, and fairness and commitment are trusted slowly. The doubt is overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. With time, people with this Saturn tend to become the ones others rely on to negotiate and to keep things fair.
Uranus in Pisces
9° Pisces 46' at midday
freedom, generational
Gérard 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
18° Leo 08' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Gérard 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
10° Cancer 42' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Gérard 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 Gérard Philipe’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.
Mercury square Uranus
about 0.5° at midday
With Mercury square Uranus, the mind can jump so quickly that other people struggle to follow, or Gérard Philipe may dismiss a slower approach that had merit. A good idea, paced, gives other people the chance to use it.
Saturn sextile Neptune
about 0.7° at midday
Gérard's ideas tend to take a workable, grounded shape without losing their spark, a result of the gentle alliance between discipline and imagination in this sextile. It is a quiet, practical creativity, and it usually produces something people can use and not just admire.
Sun conjunction Mercury
about 1.3° at midday
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Gérard's sense of self and way of thinking are fused, so an opinion can feel like a statement of who they are. They are likely to speak their mind readily, and telling a passing thought apart from their identity is a practice worth keeping up.
Jupiter trine Uranus
about 1.6° at midday
Jupiter trine Uranus gives Gérard a knack for spotting unconventional opportunities before other people do, which is what a sense of possibility and originality produce together. Growth arrives through new directions, ones a more cautious approach would probably have missed.
Sun square Uranus
about 1.8° at midday
When the Sun is square Uranus, Gérard's identity keeps bumping against a need to break from convention, which can look like sudden changes of direction that surprise the people nearby. The skill is choosing those disruptions rather than letting restlessness choose them.
Venus square Mars
about 2.2° at midday
Desire and the need for harmony can clash where Venus squares Mars, and Gérard 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.
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 0.9°
- Jupiter trine Plutoabout 2.5°
- Sun trine Neptuneabout 6.6°
- Mars opposition Neptuneabout 6.7°
- Saturn square Plutoabout 6.7°
Sagittarius Sun and Gemini Moon, like Gérard Philipe
Also born on 4 December
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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