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Serge Gainsbourg.

2 April 1928 · 04:55 · Point Zero for French Road Measurements, Notre-Dame Forecourt - John Paul II Square, France

Serge Gainsbourg's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Virgo, Pisces rising. Born April 2, 1928 in Point Zero for French Road Measurements, Notre-Dame Forecourt - John Paul II Square, France.

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What is Serge Gainsbourg's sun sign?

Serge Gainsbourg's sun is in Aries.

What is Serge Gainsbourg's moon sign?

Serge Gainsbourg's moon is in Virgo.

What is Serge Gainsbourg's rising sign?

Serge Gainsbourg's Rising (Ascendant) is Pisces.

When and where was Serge Gainsbourg born?

Serge Gainsbourg was born April 2, 1928 in Point Zero for French Road Measurements, Notre-Dame Forecourt - John Paul II Square, France.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Pisces Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunAries · 1st house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. You lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.

MoonVirgo · 6th house

Feeling is processed through analysis and service. Comfort comes from order, from being useful, from systems that work. The shadow is the inner critic that picks the feelings apart before they can be felt. Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

ASC
RisingPisces · the doorway

You arrive and adjust to the room. The body responds to whatever atmosphere it finds, taking on the quality of the container. People feel a quiet attunement they cannot name. Your chart ruler is Jupiter, in Aries in the 1st house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Pisces rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeGemini · 3rd house

The pull is toward Gemini: curiosity, the local and specific, listening, the question rather than the verdict. The familiar groove is Sagittarius: the sweeping answer, the belief already held. Growth is staying genuinely interested in what you do not yet know.

South NodeSagittarius · 9th house

The South Node in Sagittarius (9th house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in air territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Libra; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Pisces rising puts Jupiter in charge of the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Jupiter · the chart rulerAries · 1st house

Growth comes through action, courage and beginnings, carried by faith in the new. The shadow is an ego inflated by constant starting with no follow-through.

Where it drives. Growth comes through the self. A generous, confident presence, often physically large or expansive, and a person tends to be lucky simply in how they arrive.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenSagittarius · the 10th house

With Sagittarius on the Midheaven, a room senses vision: someone expansive, honest, pointed at something bigger.

IC
ICGemini · the 4th house

With Gemini on the IC, home is where the mind chatters: books, siblings, talk as shelter.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in fire and cardinal signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusAries · 1st house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Aries

A generation that rebels in the first person, rewriting what selfhood means.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLeo · 6th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 6th houseIn work, health, routine, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Leo

An era that dreams of universal creativity, the spiritualising of celebrity and self-expression.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoCancer · 4th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging through death and rebirth.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundTaurus · 1st house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. It plays out most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 8th house

Lilith is the part of you that sees under the mask and will not pretend you did not. It is depth that was called inappropriate. The medicine is a life where that depth is the point, not the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on fire. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  5. People meet your atmosphere first: soft, imaginative, hard to pin down.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is a fire, mutable chart led by the Sun in Aries. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

Missing: Little or no air can mean objectivity and detachment are hard, that you feel your way through where others think theirs, and stepping back to see clearly takes deliberate effort. You may seek out airy people for the perspective they bring.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

What leads the chart

Your Sun is the loudest force in your chart, which doubles down on identity, will, and the drive to be fully yourself. You are solar, centered on who you are and the need to shine, more than most people are. That force expresses through Aries, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Aries key.

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Virgo Moon · Pisces rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Pisces Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
38%
Earth
15%
Air
10%
Water
36%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Stellium in Ariescommon
three or more planets clustered in Aries: Jupiter, Sun, Uranus

In your chart, Jupiter, Sun, Uranus gather in Aries. A stellium in Aries concentrates the chart on starting, fighting for a self, and moving first. You carry a packed charge of will and impatience in the same place: identity is not a theory here, it is action.

gift

Tremendous focus through Aries: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Aries energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Aries stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Aries is also a discharge valve.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Jupiter square Plutoorb 0.50°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Pluto, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your relationship to power and deep change. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Venus square Saturnorb 0.61°

In you, Venus grinds against Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Mars opposition Neptuneorb 0.85°

In you, Mars sits opposite Neptune, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Mercury trine Plutoorb 1.72°

In you, Mercury flows together with Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Mercury conjunction Venusorb 1.80°

In you, Mercury is fused with Venus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your capacity for love and pleasure. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Mars trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.4°

A natural, flowing ease: Mars and Part of Fortune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Sun sextile North Nodeorb 0.8°

An easy, available link: Sun and North Node feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Sun exalted in Arieslifted

Sun is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Venus exalted in Pisceslifted

Venus is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Pluto trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.0°

A natural, flowing ease: Pluto and Black Moon Lilith feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Neptune sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.2°

An easy, available link: Neptune and Part of Fortune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
Jupiter square Plutoorb 0.5°

A productive friction: the pull between Jupiter and Pluto never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Venus square Saturnorb 0.6°

A productive friction: the pull between Venus and Saturn never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mars opposition Neptuneorb 0.9°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Mars and Neptune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

Mercury runs uphill in Pisces, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Mercury square Saturnorb 2.4°

A productive friction: the pull between Mercury and Saturn never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Moon square North Nodeorb 2.5°

A productive friction: the pull between Moon and North Node never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Serge Gainsbourg
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun12°12' Aries1st houseexaltation
Moon8°55' Virgo6th house·
Mercury16°42' Pisces12th housedetriment
Venus18°30' Pisces12th houseexaltation
Mars25°51' Aquarius12th house·
Jupiter15°28' Aries1st housechart ruler
Saturn19°06' Sagittarius9th houseretrograde
Uranus3°52' Aries1st house·
Neptune26°43' Leo6th houseretrograde
Pluto14°59' Cancer4th house·
Chiron4°11' Taurus1st house·
North Node11°26' Gemini3rd houseretrograde
South Node11°26' Sagittarius9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith13°58' Scorpio8th house·
Part of Fortune25°29' Libra7th house·
Vertex27°08' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
marstrinepart-of-fortune0.38°separating
jupitersquarepluto0.50°separating
venussquaresaturn0.61°applying
sunsextilenorth-node0.76°separating
marsoppositionneptune0.85°applying
plutotrinelilith1.02°applying
neptunesextilepart-of-fortune1.23°applying
mercurytrinepluto1.72°separating
mercuryconjunctionvenus1.80°applying
mercurysquaresaturn2.41°applying
moonsquarenorth-node2.52°applying
mercurytrinelilith2.74°separating
sunsquarepluto2.77°applying
sunconjunctionjupiter3.27°applying
venustrinepluto3.52°separating
jupitertrinesaturn3.63°applying
venustrinelilith4.53°separating
moontrinechiron4.73°separating
moonsextilelilith5.04°applying
mercurysquarenorth-node5.26°separating
suntrinesaturn6.90°applying
moonoppositionmercury7.78°applying
saturnsesquiquadratechiron0.08°separating
plutoquintilevertex0.16°applying
uranussemisextilechiron0.32°separating
neptunesemisextilevertex0.43°separating
sunsesquiquadrateneptune0.49°separating
moonbiquintilejupiter0.55°applying
venussemisquarechiron0.70°applying
north-nodesesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.96°applying
venusbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.99°applying
chironbiquintilevertex1.05°separating
uranusbiquintileneptune1.16°separating
plutoquintilechiron1.21°separating
mercurysemisextilejupiter1.22°separating
marsquincunxvertex1.28°applying
sunsemisquaremars1.34°separating
jupiterquincunxlilith1.52°separating
moonsemisquarepart-of-fortune1.56°applying
part-of-fortunesemisextilevertex1.66°separating
sunquincunxlilith1.76°applying
lilithsemisquarevertex1.82°separating