Raymond Queneau’s birth chart
Born 21 February 1903, in Le Havre, France. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Pisces Sun · Moon in Sagittarius or Capricorn
Raymond Queneau’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
21 February 1903 was a Saturday: the day Raymond Queneau was born in Le Havre, France. That made Raymond a Pisces. The Moon was in Sagittarius until about 19:54 and in Capricorn afterwards, so the Moon sign turns on the birth time. Raymond died on 25 October 1976, aged 73. No verified birth time is on file for Raymond; the chart is cast for midday, without houses.
Of the nine planets whose sign does not depend on the birth time, four are in air signs, four in water and one in fire; none is in earth. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is two, two and five. Sun, Venus and Jupiter all fall in Pisces. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Sun and Neptune: a trine, about 0.7° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Mars, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 23 other people born on 21 February, among them Corbin Bleu, W. H. Auden and Alan Rickman. Anaïs Nin was born on the very same day.
See the sky the day Raymond was born: the stars over Le Havre, France, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Raymond Queneau’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
about 1° 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 Raymond Queneau the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Sagittarius or Capricorn
Sagittarius until about 19:54, then Capricorn (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 19:54: Moon in Sagittarius
A Sagittarius Moon feels best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter probably lift Raymond, 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.
Born after about 19:54: Moon in Capricorn
A Capricorn Moon feels responsibly. With it, Raymond may hold themselves together for other people, and can be hard on themselves when they cannot. This Moon tends to be restored by accomplishment, by structure, and by the rare person allowed to see them tired.
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 Le Havre, France, at each hour of the day.
Raymond Queneau’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Raymond 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 21 February 1903, computed for Le Havre, France.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 01:44 | Scorpio rising |
| 01:44 to 04:09 | Sagittarius rising |
| 04:09 to 05:59 | Capricorn rising |
| 05:59 to 07:14 | Aquarius rising |
| 07:14 to 08:09 | Pisces rising |
| 08:09 to 09:04 | Aries rising |
| 09:04 to 10:19 | Taurus rising |
| 10:19 to 12:04 | Gemini rising |
| 12:04 to 14:34 | Cancer rising |
| 14:34 to 17:19 | Leo rising |
| 17:19 to 20:09 | Virgo rising |
| 20:09 to 22:54 | Libra rising |
| 22:54 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 21 February 1903, 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 | 1° Pisces 41' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Sagittarius until about 19:54, then Capricorn |
| Mercury | 5° Aquarius 48' |
| Venus | 21° Pisces 46' |
| Mars | 16° Libra 14'℞ |
| Jupiter | 0° Pisces 16' |
| Saturn | 3° Aquarius 46' |
| Uranus | 25° Sagittarius 00' |
| Neptune | 1° Cancer 00'℞ |
| Pluto | 17° Gemini 41'℞ |
| North Node | 17° Libra 03' |
| South Node | 17° Aries 03' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Raymond Queneau’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Raymond Queneau’s private life.
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and Raymond Queneau'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 Sagittarius or Capricorn
Sagittarius until about 19:54, then Capricorn
needs and habits
Born before about 19:54: 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 Raymond edgy faster than most people expect. With this Moon, the next trip tends to be planned before the current one has finished.
Born after about 19:54: Moon in Capricorn
With the Moon in Capricorn, Raymond's comfort probably comes from accomplishing something concrete each day, and an unproductive day can leave them oddly unsettled even on holiday. Harder feelings tend to be kept for when they are alone. Before rest is allowed there is usually one more thing to tidy, organise or finish.
In Raymond's chart, Mercury in Aquarius describes thinking that is original and a step removed from convention, and communication that works best through ideas rather than small talk. The stubborn streak is holding a position out of principle after the evidence has moved on. In a group, this is the person who asks the question nobody else thought to ask.
Venus in Pisces loves without much guard, and Raymond probably values emotional and even spiritual connection over anything practical. The temptation can be to idealise a partner before really seeing them. Generosity in relationships comes easily here, and so does missing the moment when giving starts to outweigh getting.
In Raymond'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 Pisces
0° Pisces 16' at midday
growth and excess
For Raymond, Jupiter in Pisces means finding growth in compassion, imagination and a willingness to trust things that cannot be fully explained. The overreach is an idealism about people or situations that the facts do not quite support. Others lean on this generosity of spirit more than they let on.
With Saturn in Aquarius, Raymond's discipline probably gathers around belonging to a group on their own terms; it is the placement of the one-time outsider. The doubt means holding back the stranger ideas until there is no risk of mockery. The outsider often ends up as a trusted voice in exactly the kind of community that once seemed unlikely to accept them.
Uranus in Sagittarius
25° Sagittarius 00' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus in Sagittarius is less about Raymond than about the years around their birth. People of that age transform belief and access to knowledge, often through unprecedented exposure to other cultures and ideas. The personal trace is a restlessness with any single worldview presented as the only one.
Neptune in Cancer
1° Cancer 00' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Raymond and many people born in the same decade or so. The generation idealises home and family, often carrying a wider nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never quite have existed. Personally it can be a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
Pluto in Gemini
17° Gemini 41' at midday ℞
power, generational
Raymond shares Pluto in Gemini with many people born in the same long stretch of years. That generation transforms communication and collective thought, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. The personal portion is an intense relationship with what counts as truth.
Aspects in Raymond Queneau’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.
Sun trine Neptune
about 0.7° at midday
Raymond Queneau's identity and imagination flow together easily, giving them an intuitive, artistic quality that feels natural rather than performed. With the Sun trine Neptune, compassion comes without much effort, and other people often sense it before a word has been said.
Jupiter trine Neptune
about 0.7° at midday
Optimism and imagination tend to flow together for Raymond, and what comes of it is an inspired, generous vision of what is possible. Hope and creativity tend to serve them well under this trine, especially when both are allowed to guide a project and neither is second-guessed.
Sun conjunction Jupiter
about 1.4° at midday
Raymond's identity carries a natural optimism and a generous sense of scale, so they tend to think bigger than the room requires. Confidence comes easily with the Sun conjunct Jupiter, and the discipline worth building is matching that optimism with follow-through.
Mars trine Pluto
about 1.5° at midday
Resilience under pressure, and the ability to come back stronger from a setback, are the marks of this trine between drive and the capacity for change. In Raymond's chart the aspect points to a quiet, formidable strength, the kind other people notice mainly in how little it seems to cost.
Mercury conjunction Saturn
about 2.0° at midday
With Mercury conjunct Saturn, Raymond's thinking is likely to be careful and structured, and they tend to say only what they are sure of. That makes their word worth taking, and the risk is that caution keeps an idea back until it feels perfectly finished.
Venus square Uranus
about 3.2° at midday
In Raymond's chart the desire for closeness and the need for freedom can work against each other, and this square is known for sudden shifts in an otherwise good relationship. The remedy is to build enough independence into the relationship that none has to be created by pulling away.
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.
- Venus square Plutoabout 4.1°
- Uranus opposition Neptuneabout 6.0°
- Uranus opposition Plutoabout 7.3°
Pisces Suns born within 4 years of Raymond Queneau
Also born on 21 February
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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