Joe Dassin’s birth chart
Born 5 November 1938, in Brooklyn, New York. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Scorpio Sun · Aries Moon
Joe Dassin’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Joe Dassin was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 5 November 1938, a Saturday. Their zodiac sign was Scorpio, with the Moon in Aries. Joe died on 20 August 1980, aged 41. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Fire carries the most weight: four of the ten planets, against earth two, air two and water two. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is three, five and two. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Venus and Pluto: a trine, about 2.7° 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: Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 29 other people born on 5 November, among them Vivien Leigh, Bryan Adams and Yair Lapid. César Luis Menotti was born on the very same day.
See the sky the day Joe was born: the stars over Brooklyn, New York, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Joe Dassin’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Scorpio
about 12° Scorpio at midday
A Scorpio Sun goes deep. Surface answers are unlikely to satisfy Joe Dassin, 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
Aries
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
With the Moon in Aries, Joe is likely to feel fast and forgive fast. Anger comes up quickly and passes just as quickly, and feeling needs a physical outlet. This is a Moon soothed by action, not by talking it over.
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 Brooklyn, New York, at each hour of the day.
Joe Dassin’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Joe 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 5 November 1938, computed for Brooklyn, New York.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:30 | Leo rising |
| 00:30 to 03:00 | Virgo rising |
| 03:00 to 05:30 | Libra rising |
| 05:30 to 08:05 | Scorpio rising |
| 08:05 to 10:25 | Sagittarius rising |
| 10:25 to 12:20 | Capricorn rising |
| 12:20 to 13:45 | Aquarius rising |
| 13:45 to 15:00 | Pisces rising |
| 15:00 to 16:10 | Aries rising |
| 16:10 to 17:35 | Taurus rising |
| 17:35 to 19:30 | Gemini rising |
| 19:30 to 21:55 | Cancer rising |
| 21:55 to 24:00 | Leo 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 5 November 1938, 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 | 12° Scorpio 37' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Aries |
| Mercury | 28° Scorpio 08' |
| Venus | 4° Sagittarius 12'℞ |
| Mars | 7° Libra 12' |
| Jupiter | 22° Aquarius 54' |
| Saturn | 12° Aries 32'℞ |
| Uranus | 15° Taurus 56'℞ |
| Neptune | 22° Virgo 38' |
| Pluto | 1° Leo 30'℞ |
| North Node | 17° Scorpio 47' |
| South Node | 17° Taurus 47' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Joe Dassin’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Joe Dassin’s private life.
The Sun in Scorpio finds purpose in going past the surface of things, and Joe Dassin'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 Moon in Aries keeps day-to-day needs simple: something to do right now, and permission to feel it and move on. For Joe, comfort probably comes from action rather than discussion. The instinct of this Moon is to pace the room or go for a walk rather than sit with a feeling until it passes on its own.
With Mercury in Scorpio, Joe tends to think in layers, looking for what is not being said as much as what is spoken aloud. Once they have decided to speak they can be very direct, and until then, silent. The tension is suspecting a hidden motive where there is only an ordinary one.
Venus in Sagittarius loves with enthusiasm and a need for shared adventure, and Joe probably values a partner who gives them room to roam. When things get serious, this placement can confuse freedom with distance. The pattern with this Venus is to plan the next trip together before settling into the current one.
In Joe'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.
Jupiter in Aquarius
22° Aquarius 54' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aquarius grows through community, ideas and causes bigger than one life. Joe may put so much trust in a theory or a group that its practical flaws are overlooked. Optimism about the future can make them a natural organiser of other people's efforts.
Saturn in Aries builds discipline around learning to act with patience instead of pure impulse. For Joe, that suggests a doubt that takes the form of second-guessing: too fast, or not fast enough? Confidence in their own initiative tends to come slowly, once the rush goes out of every decision.
Uranus in Taurus
15° Taurus 56' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Uranus in Taurus is a generational placement that Joe shares with many people born within a few years. That generation rethinks ownership, land and what security means, often through technology that unsettles older arrangements. Personally, that may be a reluctance to prize things simply because an older generation did.
Neptune in Virgo
22° Virgo 38' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune moves slowly, so Joe shares its place in Virgo with people born years either side. The imagination of this generation turns towards service, craft and idealised routines of self-improvement. In one life it can mean chasing an impossibly perfect daily practice.
Pluto in Leo
1° Leo 30' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Leo is held by a whole generation, one that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. At a personal scale, for Joe, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Aspects in Joe Dassin’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.
Venus trine Pluto
about 2.7° at midday
With Venus trine Pluto, affection and the capacity for change tend to strengthen each other in Joe Dassin's chart, the kind of pairing that gives relationships staying power through hard times. Depth can arrive here without constant upheaval, and that is rarer, and more durable, than the intensity some people mistake for closeness.
Venus sextile Mars
about 3.0° at midday
A sextile between Venus and Mars tends to let Joe go after what they like without much inner conflict, because affection and drive are pulling the same way. It is a pleasant, workable confidence, at its most useful in the early stages of anything new.
Sun opposition Uranus
about 3.3° at midday
With the Sun opposite Uranus, Joe's loyalty to their own path tends to bring them into collision with people or situations that expect conformity. Learning to be themselves without needing the collision gives them a quieter, more durable kind of independence.
Mercury trine Pluto
about 3.4° at midday
Joe's thinking and depth support each other, which gives them a natural ability to work through complex or hidden material without getting overwhelmed. With Mercury trine Pluto, research and difficult conversations both come easily, and Joe can stay with a hard subject long after others have looked away.
Mercury square Jupiter
about 5.2° at midday
Thinking can run ahead of the evidence when Mercury is square Jupiter, leading to overconfident claims or promises made faster than Joe can check them. Matching enthusiasm to what has been verified makes their confidence more durable, not less.
Mars opposition Saturn
about 5.3° at midday
Mars opposite Saturn can set Joe's wish to act against a fear of being blocked or criticised for it, and the result may be frustration with anything that slows them down. Working steadily around an obstacle usually gets further than fighting it head on.
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.
- Mercury conjunction Venusabout 6.1°
- Uranus trine Neptuneabout 6.7°
Scorpio Sun and Aries Moon, like Joe Dassin
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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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