Simone de Beauvoir's Birth Chart
Simone de Beauvoir was born on January 9, 1908 at 04:00 in Paris, France. The chart has the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Pisces, with Scorpio rising.
| Born | January 9, 1908 |
| Time | 04:00 |
| Place | Paris, France |
Simone de Beauvoir's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Capricorn: Older Than Your Years
You become yourself through what you have built and what you have carried. Identity here is earned rather than given, and you measure yourself against a standard that was serious from a young age. People experience you as capable, dry and older than your years, and they rarely see the effort or the fear of falling short underneath. Authority sits on you and sometimes heavily. Your vitality grows with age and with responsibility, and you are often more at ease at fifty than you were at twenty.
Moon in Pisces: Porous to Everything
You absorb the feeling of a room without meaning to, and by evening you can be carrying moods that started in other people. Comfort is softness, music, water, sleep, anything that blurs the edges. Boundaries do not come naturally, so you give more than you have and need long stretches alone to find your own shape again. Your imagination is vivid enough to be a refuge and, on bad days, a hiding place. People confide in you because you never seem shocked, and they are usually right.
Scorpio rising: Taking Your Measure
You arrive watching, and people feel watched. Strangers meet a still body, a steady gaze, and a face that gives nothing until it has taken your measure, and some of them are drawn in while others step back. People tell you their secrets and assume you have worse ones of your own. Trust is given slowly and withdrawn completely, and a betrayal years old still sits in your posture when that person walks in. Your intensity reads as threat or magnetism depending on the day.
Planet positions in Simone de Beauvoir's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 17°30′ |
| Moon | Pisces | 29°41′ |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 14°14′ |
| Venus | Aquarius | 15°53′ |
| Mars | Pisces | 28°34′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Leo | 11°14′ |
| Saturn | Pisces | 22°26′ |
| Uranus | Capricorn | 13°05′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Cancer | 13°22′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Gemini | 23°21′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Cancer | 14°16′ |
| Chiron | Aquarius | 16°04′ |
| Ascendant | Scorpio | 26°02′ |
| Midheaven | Virgo | 16°13′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 1, Earth 3, Air 2, Water 4. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 2, Mutable 4.
A water emphasis
A water emphasis makes you emotional, intuitive, and sensitive: you feel deeply, attune to others, and navigate life through instinct and empathy.
The tightest aspects in Simone de Beauvoir's chart
- Mercury opposite North Node, orb 0°02′
- Venus conjunct Chiron, orb 0°11′
- Mercury opposite Neptune, orb 0°52′
- Neptune conjunct North Node, orb 0°54′
- Saturn square Pluto, orb 0°55′
- Moon conjunct Mars, orb 1°07′
- Mercury conjunct Uranus, orb 1°09′
- Uranus opposite North Node, orb 1°11′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mercury opposite North Node: Facts Across Growth
Standing on one end is your gathering, checking, detail-sorting mind; on the other is the direction you're being pulled. Lean fully into the mind and you become a person who knows everything and moves nowhere. Lean fully the other way and you jump without reading the fine print. Both stay useful when they stay separate.
Venus conjunct Chiron: Worth Fused With Wound
Beauty and the old ache come out of the same opening in you. Anything you make, wear, buy, or love carries a tender spot, and other people feel that tenderness as taste. It also means compliments land strangely, since the same channel that holds your sense of worth is the one that got cracked early.
Mercury opposite Neptune: Ledger And Ocean
There is a permanent standoff between what can be documented and what can only be sensed, and neither backs down. You over-explain a feeling until it dies, or float on a hunch and skip the paperwork. This works when each stays in its own lane, sharp analysis kept sharp, and the formless left formless.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Simone de Beauvoir's recorded date, time and place of birth. The rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses depend on the birth time, so they are only as reliable as the time on record. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.