Simone de Beauvoir’s birth chart
Born 9 January 1908, in 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, at 04:30 (Rodden AA).
Capricorn Sun · Pisces Moon · Sagittarius rising
Simone de Beauvoir’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Simone de Beauvoir was born on Thursday, 9 January 1908, in 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. That made Simone a Capricorn, with the Moon in Pisces and Sagittarius rising. Simone died on 14 April 1986, aged 78. The birth time, 04:30, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
Of the ten planets, four are in water signs, three in earth, two in air and one in fire. Cardinal signs hold four, mutable signs four and fixed signs two. Capricorn holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Sun, Mercury and Uranus. Pisces holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Moon, Mars and Saturn. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Uranus and Neptune: an opposition, 0.3° from exact. Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 22 other people born on 9 January, among them Catherine, Princess of Wales, Joan Baez and Nina Dobrev. Wikidata links Simone with one person in the dataset: Jean-Paul Sartre (listed as partners in Wikidata).
See the sky the night Simone was born: the stars over 6th arrondissement of Paris, France at 04:30, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Simone de Beauvoir’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
17° Capricorn 31'
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Simone de Beauvoir up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Pisces
29° Pisces 58'
With the Moon in Pisces, Simone may well pick up the mood of a whole room. Music, water, sleep and imagination tend to restore them, and it matters whose moods they carry home. The empathy of this Moon is a gift that needs a door.
Rising sign
Sagittarius
1° Sagittarius 36'
With Sagittarius rising, Simone probably comes across as open, frank and optimistic. Around a Sagittarius rising, people feel that anything might happen, and this is often the one who says the thing everyone was thinking.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 04:30 on 9 January 1908, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 17° Capricorn 31' | House 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 29° Pisces 58' | House 4 |
| Mercury | 14° Capricorn 16' | House 2 |
| Venus | 15° Aquarius 54' | House 2 |
| Mars | 28° Pisces 35' | House 4 |
| Jupiter | 11° Leo 13'℞ | House 8 |
| Saturn | 22° Pisces 25' | House 3 |
| Uranus | 13° Capricorn 05' | House 2 |
| Neptune | 13° Cancer 22'℞ | House 8 |
| Pluto | 23° Gemini 20'℞ | House 7 |
| North Node | 14° Cancer 15' | House 8 |
| South Node | 14° Capricorn 15' | House 2 |
Simone de Beauvoir’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Simone de Beauvoir’s private life.
With the Sun in Capricorn, Simone de Beauvoir is likely to find purpose in building a reputation and a structure that will outlast them, with a vitality that is steady rather than showy. The trap can be measuring their worth by output alone. They may well work through tiredness instead of naming it, until someone else has to point it out.
The Sun in the second house rests Simone's sense of worth on what is built and looked after over time, not on one good season. They feel most confident when the things they own and make reflect their own taste, their own standards and their own pace.
The Moon in Pisces makes for a porous daily mood, one that picks up the emotional temperature of a room without choosing to. Quiet, music or time near water probably restores Simone more than talking things out. It can be easy for them to miss how much of what they feel belongs to someone else.
For Simone, the Moon in the fourth house can make home the place where emotions live, and the placement is associated with unusual sensitivity to the mood of a household. A settled home probably steadies almost everything else, while chaos there can unsettle them quickly.
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Simone tends to communicate in a measured, practical way that people trust. The focus on a useful conclusion can be so strong that ideas which have not yet proven their worth are dismissed. Simone will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
With Mercury in the second house, Simone weighs up what things are worth with care and holds clear, well-reasoned opinions about value that they can explain in detail. Talking a choice or a plan through out loud helps them settle on the right one.
Venus in Aquarius loves as a friend first, and values independence, shared ideas and a partner who allows plenty of room. Simone may keep just enough distance that closeness feels slightly out of reach, even to them. This Venus can prize a partner's individuality more than the intimacy between them.
With Venus in the second house, Simone has an eye for quality and comfort, and being surrounded by beautiful things probably matters more to them than an outsider would guess. Simone's taste leans towards pleasure, ease and things made well, over things that are merely practical.
With Mars in Pisces, Simone is likely to act indirectly, often through avoidance or quiet withdrawal rather than confrontation, and anger can turn into sadness before it has even been named as anger. The habit is to absorb conflict rather than address it. Often they need to leave a tense room before they can work out what they feel.
Mars in the fourth house puts a lot of energy into home and family, and in Simone's chart it points to a protective instinct towards the people close to them. The placement is also linked with an urge to build, repair and rearrange, so that home is rarely a place that stands still.
Jupiter in Leo
11° Leo 13' ℞ · eighth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For Simone 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.
Jupiter in the eighth house brings a quiet trust to intimacy and to whatever is held in common, and for Simone it suggests an expectation that things will be fair with the people closest to them. The placement goes with meeting deep change openly, not warily.
Saturn in Pisces builds discipline around boundaries, and it usually starts from a habit of carrying feelings that belong to other people. For Simone, the doubt is likely to take the form of guilt for protecting their own time and energy. What this Saturn works towards is a quiet, mature compassion, once it is clear that a boundary and a closed heart are not the same thing.
In Simone's chart, Saturn sits in the third house, a placement associated with caution in speech: a sense of being unheard or over-careful with words, and a freedom to speak up that comes with deliberate practice. What they say often carries weight, because they choose their words with care.
Uranus in Capricorn
13° Capricorn 05' · second house
freedom, generational
Many people within a few years of Simone's age share Uranus in Capricorn, the mark of a generation that dismantles and rebuilds old institutions and structures of authority. Personally, that can mean scepticism towards any system that asks for trust without having shown why it deserves it.
Simone is unlikely to be satisfied for long by conventional measures of worth, and with Uranus in the second house, the idea of what is worth having changes over time. They place value on things that are usually overlooked, and would rather travel light than be tied down by what they own.
Neptune in Cancer
13° Cancer 22' ℞ · eighth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Simone 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.
With Neptune in the eighth house, intimacy can feel like dissolving the usual boundaries with another person, for better and sometimes for worse, and Simone can be unusually sensitive to what goes unsaid. Trust may ask them to keep their feet on the ground rather than merge completely and lose their own outline.
Pluto in Gemini
23° Gemini 20' ℞ · seventh house
power, generational
Simone 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.
Pluto in the seventh house is associated with bonds that run unusually deep once trust is built, and in Simone's chart it points to close partnerships that change a person. The placement is also linked with power struggles before that trust has had a chance to settle in.
Aspects in Simone de Beauvoir’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Mercury opposition Neptune
0.9° separating
Under Mercury opposite Neptune, clear thinking competes with the lure of an appealing story or a hopeful assumption. Checking conclusions against plain evidence keeps Simone de Beauvoir on firm ground, without asking them to give up the imagination that makes their thinking interesting in the first place.
Saturn square Pluto
0.9° applying
Saturn square Pluto sets the need for control against the instinct for transformation, and Simone may grip a structure most tightly at the very moment it needs to change. Each old form that is let go leaves a strength behind that is more real than the grip was.
Mercury conjunction Uranus
1.2° separating
Simone's thinking is likely to be quick, original and a step ahead of convention, with insights that arrive suddenly rather than through slow reasoning. Mercury conjunct Uranus makes for inventive thinking, and the courtesy worth learning is explaining the leap so that other people can follow it too.
Moon conjunction Mars
1.4° separating
Feeling and the instinct to act are fused when the Moon is conjunct Mars, so emotion tends to come out as immediate action rather than quiet processing. It gives Simone emotional courage, and the skill to practise is a pause before the reaction, so that it serves them rather than just discharging the feeling.
Sun conjunction Mercury
3.3° applying
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Simone'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.
Sun opposition Neptune
4.1° separating
For Simone, a clear, grounded sense of self sits on one side, and on the other a habit of idealising people or situations past what they can deliver. With this aspect, holding compassion and clear sight together resolves more than choosing one over the other.
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 opposition Neptune0.3°
- Sun conjunction Uranus4.4°
- Venus opposition Jupiter4.7°
- Sun sextile Saturn4.9°
- Mars square Pluto5.2°
- Mars conjunction Saturn6.2°
- Moon square Pluto6.6°
- Moon conjunction Saturn7.5°
Simone de Beauvoir in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Capricorn Sun and Pisces Moon, like Simone de Beauvoir
Also born on 9 January
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; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its 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, Astro-Databank (BC/BR in hand). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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