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Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel’s birth chart

Born April 8, 1929 in Schaerbeek, birth time not public.

Aries Sun · Aries Moon · Fire · Cardinal

Sun

Aries

18° Aries 09'

You start things. Your energy is direct and impatient with delay, and you are most yourself when there is something to go first at. The work of an Aries Sun is finishing what the spark began.

Moon

Aries

0° Aries 35'

You feel fast and forgive fast. Anger comes up quickly and passes just as quickly, and you need physical outlets for feeling. You are soothed by action, not by talking it over.

Cast for noon; the Moon may be up to 6° off without a birth time.

Rising

Jacques Brel’s birth time is not on public record, so the rising sign and houses are unknown.
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Placements

Sun 18° Aries 09'
Moon 0° Aries 35'
Mercury 8° Aries 36'
Venus 6° Taurus 15'
Mars 12° Cancer 13'
Jupiter 14° Taurus 49'
Saturn 0° Capricorn 31'
Uranus 7° Aries 58'
Neptune 28° Leo 51'
Pluto 16° Cancer 13'
North Node 21° Taurus 37'
South Node 21° Scorpio 37'

Jacques Brel's full reading

Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.

  1. Sun in Aries

    18° Aries 09'

    purpose and vitality

    Their sense of purpose comes alive when there is a clear start line. They feel most like themselves pushing into something new, though their energy can burn hot and fade before the finish. It shows up as the project they launch with excitement and then hand off once the routine sets in.

  2. Moon in Aries

    0° Aries 35'

    needs and habits

    Their day to day needs are simple: something to do right now, and permission to feel it and move on. Comfort comes from action rather than discussion. It shows up as pacing the room or going for a walk instead of sitting with a feeling until it passes on its own.

  3. Mercury in Aries

    8° Aries 36'

    mind and voice

    They think in quick, decisive strokes and say what they mean without much preamble. The tension is speaking before the thought is fully formed, which can come across sharper than intended. It shows up as finishing other people's sentences and preferring a fast decision to a long meeting.

  4. Venus in Taurus

    6° Taurus 15'

    love and values

    They love steadily and show it through consistency, touch and shared comfort rather than grand gestures. They value loyalty and things built to last. The tension is holding onto a relationship past its natural end because change feels like loss. It shows up as remembering exactly how someone takes their coffee, months in.

  5. Mars in Cancer

    12° Cancer 13'

    drive and anger

    They act to protect the people and things they care about, and their anger is usually about feeling hurt more than feeling wronged. The tension is going quiet or indirect instead of naming what upset they. It shows up as a mood shift that takes people a while to trace back to its actual cause.

  6. Jupiter in Taurus

    14° Taurus 49'

    growth and excess

    They grow through patience, and their luck tends to show up in steady accumulation rather than a single windfall. The overreach is excess, holding onto more comfort or more stuff than actually serves they. It shows up as a generosity with food, gifts and shared pleasures that occasionally tips into indulgence.

  7. Saturn in Capricorn

    0° Capricorn 31'

    discipline and doubt

    Saturn is at home here, and they build discipline as naturally as breathing, often carrying responsibility earlier than most people their age. The doubt shows up as never quite believing they have achieved enough to relax. It shows up as an authority that others recognise well before Jacques is willing to claim it themselves.

  8. Uranus in Aries

    7° Aries 58'

    freedom, generational

    Shared by everyone born in this multi-year span, this placement marks a generation that pushes for change through direct, individual action rather than waiting for permission. Personally, it can show up as an impatience with slow-moving institutions that older generations built.

  9. Neptune in Leo

    28° Leo 51'

    imagination, generational

    Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. Personally, it can show up as a pull toward performance as a way of feeling real.

  10. Pluto in Cancer

    16° Cancer 13'

    power, generational

    Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. Personally, it can show up as intensity around questions of belonging and who counts as family.

Aspects

How the planets in Jacques Brel's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

  1. Moon square Saturn

    0.1° separating

    Their emotional needs can meet real self-doubt, showing up as a fear that Jacques is asking for too much or that their feelings are an inconvenience. Each time they let someone show up for they anyway, that fear loses a little of its grip.

  2. Mercury conjunction Uranus

    0.6° separating

    Their thinking is quick, original and a step ahead of convention, and insights tend to arrive suddenly rather than through slow reasoning. This makes they a genuinely inventive thinker, and the edge is explaining the leap so other people can follow it too.

  3. Jupiter sextile Pluto

    1.4° applying

    Their sense of possibility and their depth cooperate, giving they acces to meaningful growth without constant upheaval. Opportunities that matter tend to find they at a manageable pace, rather than arriving all at once in a way that would be hard to absorb.

  4. Saturn trine Neptune

    1.7° separating

    Their discipline and their imagination support each other, letting they build something both beautiful and structurally sound. Vision and follow-through tend to arrive together for they, in a combination that is genuinely rare and worth trusting.

  • Sun square Pluto1.9°
  • Mars sextile Jupiter2.6°
  • Mercury square Mars3.6°
  • Mars conjunction Pluto4.0°
  • Mars square Uranus4.3°
  • Venus trine Saturn5.7°
  • Sun square Mars5.9°
  • Moon conjunction Uranus7.4°
  • Moon conjunction Mercury8.0°

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Birth data: Wikidata. Confidence X (date and place known, time unknown). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

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