Vanessa Paradis’s birth chart
Born 22 December 1972, in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Capricorn Sun · Moon in Cancer or Leo
Vanessa Paradis’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Vanessa Paradis was born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France, on 22 December 1972, a Friday. That makes Vanessa a Capricorn. The Moon was in Cancer until about 13:35 and in Leo afterwards, so the Moon sign turns on the birth time. Vanessa turns 54 in 2026. StarMap has no verified birth time for Vanessa, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
By element the count is three fire, three air, two earth and one water, leaving out the Moon, whose sign depends on the birth time. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is four, one and four. Mercury, Venus and Neptune all fall in Sagittarius. Closest of the aspects is the sextile between Venus and Pluto, about 0.2° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. One planet was retrograde: Saturn. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 18 other people born on 22 December, among them Basshunter, Joshua Bassett and Ralph Fiennes. Wikidata links Vanessa with two people in the dataset: Johnny Depp (listed as partners, 1998 to 2012) and Lenny Kravitz (listed as partners in Wikidata).
See the sky the day Vanessa was born: the stars over Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Vanessa Paradis’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
about 0° Capricorn at midday
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Vanessa Paradis up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Cancer or Leo
Cancer until about 13:35, then Leo (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 13:35: Moon in Cancer
The Moon is at home in Cancer. For Vanessa that points to feelings that are tidal, strong and closely tied to the people they love, and to a memory for how everything felt. This Moon is restored by home, by cooking, and by being needed.
Born after about 13:35: Moon in Leo
A Leo Moon feels with its whole heart and needs that to be noticed. Warm attention tends to fill Vanessa up, and being overlooked can empty them faster than anything. Play, creativity and loyal friends usually bring them back to themselves.
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 Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France, at each hour of the day.
Vanessa Paradis’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Vanessa 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 22 December 1972, computed for Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:50 | Virgo rising |
| 00:50 to 03:35 | Libra rising |
| 03:35 to 06:20 | Scorpio rising |
| 06:20 to 08:45 | Sagittarius rising |
| 08:45 to 10:35 | Capricorn rising |
| 10:35 to 11:50 | Aquarius rising |
| 11:50 to 12:45 | Pisces rising |
| 12:45 to 13:45 | Aries rising |
| 13:45 to 15:00 | Taurus rising |
| 15:00 to 16:45 | Gemini rising |
| 16:45 to 19:15 | Cancer rising |
| 19:15 to 22:00 | Leo rising |
| 22:00 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 22 December 1972, 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 | 0° Capricorn 42' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Cancer until about 13:35, then Leo |
| Mercury | 11° Sagittarius 06' |
| Venus | 4° Sagittarius 35' |
| Mars | 24° Scorpio 25' |
| Jupiter | 15° Capricorn 36' |
| Saturn | 16° Gemini 00'℞ |
| Uranus | 22° Libra 28' |
| Neptune | 5° Sagittarius 54' |
| Pluto | 4° Libra 21' |
| North Node | 16° Capricorn 47' |
| South Node | 16° Cancer 47' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Vanessa Paradis’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Vanessa Paradis’s private life.
With the Sun in Capricorn, Vanessa Paradis 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.
Moon in Cancer or Leo
Cancer until about 13:35, then Leo
needs and habits
Born before about 13:35: Moon in Cancer
With the Moon in Cancer, Vanessa's needs tend to be tied to home, routine and the people they check in on daily. Small rituals are steadying: a particular meal, a particular chair. The tension is reading other people's moods so closely that those moods can be taken on without noticing.
Born after about 13:35: Moon in Leo
A Leo Moon needs warmth and acknowledgement worked into everyday life, not just on big occasions. A day with no one noticing can drain Vanessa faster than a hard day with an audience. The mood tends to lift visibly the moment someone compliments something small Vanessa did.
Vanessa'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 Sagittarius loves with enthusiasm and a need for shared adventure, and Vanessa 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 Vanessa's chart, Mars in Scorpio acts with focus and intensity, and its anger, when it surfaces, tends to be controlled, cutting and hard to forget. The risk with this Mars is holding on to a grievance well past its useful life. A calm exterior gives little warning before a sharp response.
Jupiter in Capricorn
15° Capricorn 36' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Capricorn grows through long-term discipline, and Vanessa would probably rather build slowly and properly than quickly. The overreach is taking on more responsibility than any one person should reasonably carry. The authority this Jupiter brings is slow and hard-won, the kind people tend to trust more the longer they know someone.
Saturn in Gemini builds discipline around clear expression, and it often begins with doubt about whether an idea is good enough to say out loud. For Vanessa that would mean overpreparing before speaking or writing anything. Once the self-consciousness eases, the result can be someone unusually precise and credible with words.
Uranus in Libra
22° Libra 28' at midday
freedom, generational
Vanessa holds Uranus in Libra in common with many people born in the same stretch of years. Together that generation reshapes ideas of partnership, fairness and how relationships are arranged. Its personal side is a readiness to question traditional roles more openly than earlier generations felt able to.
Neptune in Sagittarius
5° Sagittarius 54' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Vanessa in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
Pluto in Libra
4° Libra 21' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Vanessa belongs to, because Pluto moves so slowly. That generation transforms ideas of partnership, fairness and what people owe one another. Personally it can be an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.
Aspects in Vanessa Paradis’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 sextile Pluto
about 0.2° at midday
This sextile promises intimacy without unnecessary drama, with Vanessa Paradis's affections and depth working side by side. Relationships tend to deepen at a comfortable pace, with no crisis or dramatic turning point needed to get there.
Venus conjunction Neptune
about 1.3° at midday
Love, for Vanessa, is likely to be romantic and idealistic, drawn to a kind of connection that feels almost transcendent. Venus conjunct Neptune brings tenderness and imagination, along with the task of seeing a partner clearly and not only through the ideal built around them.
Sun square Pluto
about 3.7° at midday
With this aspect, Vanessa's identity can get entangled in struggles over control, whether inwardly or with people who challenge them. Whenever Vanessa chooses to change rather than to dominate, the friction turns into hard-won strength they can rely on the next time things get difficult.
Mercury opposition Saturn
about 4.9° at midday
Under Mercury opposite Saturn, a doubt can creep into Vanessa's thinking about whether it is good enough to share. Speaking the imperfect version out loud matters more than waiting for the polished one.
Mercury conjunction Neptune
about 5.2° at midday
With Mercury conjunct Neptune, Vanessa's thinking is likely to be imaginative and impressionistic, working through images and instinct as much as straight logic. It is a creative and intuitive strength, at its best when a compelling idea has been held up against the facts before being embraced.
Saturn trine Uranus
about 6.5° at midday
This trine lets Vanessa build lasting structures that still leave room for change, because discipline and independence are allies here. Consistency and originality coexist with ease, and neither of them has to be given up to make room for 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.
- Neptune sextile Plutoabout 1.5°
- Mercury conjunction Venusabout 6.5°
- Jupiter square Uranusabout 6.9°
Vanessa Paradis in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Capricorn Suns born within 2 years of Vanessa Paradis
Also born on 22 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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