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Simone de Beauvoir.

9 January 1908 · 04:30 · Groupe scolaire Notre-Dame de France, Rue Jean Dolent, France

Simone de Beauvoir's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Pisces, Sagittarius rising. Born January 9, 1908 in Groupe scolaire Notre-Dame de France, Rue Jean Dolent, France.

About this chart

What is Simone de Beauvoir's sun sign?

Simone de Beauvoir's sun is in Capricorn.

What is Simone de Beauvoir's moon sign?

Simone de Beauvoir's moon is in Pisces.

What is Simone de Beauvoir's rising sign?

Simone de Beauvoir's Rising (Ascendant) is Sagittarius.

When and where was Simone de Beauvoir born?

Simone de Beauvoir was born January 9, 1908 in Groupe scolaire Notre-Dame de France, Rue Jean Dolent, 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 Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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.

SunCapricorn · 2nd house

Mastery and structure are how the self is forged. Patient, disciplined, oriented toward the long game. The mountain must be climbed and the weight must be carried. Lesson: you were always worthy. The climb is the path of remembering. The self is forged through what you value and what you hold. Self-worth and resources are the school, and the lifelong work is valuing yourself enough to insist on what you genuinely need.

MoonPisces · 4th house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

ASC
RisingSagittarius · the doorway

You arrive wide. Enthusiasm enters the room ahead of you, the body bigger than the doorway it just passed through. People feel the horizon expand when you show up. Your chart ruler is Jupiter, in Leo in the 8th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Sagittarius 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 NodeCancer · 8th house

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 2nd house

The South Node in Capricorn (2nd 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 water territory.

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

Chart Ruler

Sagittarius 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 rulerLeo · 8th house

Growth comes through creative expression, generosity and visibility, carried by faith in the self. The shadow is grandiosity outrunning the substance.

Where it drives. Increase comes through what is shared. Often money received through others, profound transformations, and strong intuition. The underworld is a teacher here.

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
MidheavenVirgo · the 10th house

With Virgo on the Midheaven, a room senses competence: someone precise, useful, who can actually be relied on to deliver.

IC
ICPisces · the 4th house

With Pisces on the IC, home is porous and restorative: dream-space, compassion, a root that dissolves hard edges.

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 water and cardinal signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

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.

UranusCapricorn · 2nd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Capricorn

A generation that breaks down institutions and rebuilds them.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneCancer · 8th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Cancer

An era that dreams of universal belonging, a mystical motherhood, the dissolving of family lines.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoGemini · 7th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Gemini

An era that remakes mind, communication and information, putting language 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 woundAquarius · 3rd house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 3rd house (mind, words, siblings). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 8th house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. 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 water. 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

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

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 depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to build authority and carry responsibility that lasts.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  5. People meet your horizon first: open, frank, pointed past small talk.

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 an earth, mutable chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an earth-dominant chart, which means you run on the tangible, the practical, and the real. You build steadily, you trust what you can touch, and you ground the people around you, though you can resist change and get stuck in the material.

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 Moon is the loudest force in your chart, which means feeling, instinct, and the inner life run the show. You are lunar, led by emotion and the need for safety more than by logic or will, deeply attuned and deeply sensitive.

The spine, your Big Three

Capricorn Sun · Pisces Moon · Sagittarius rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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
23%
Earth
33%
Air
10%
Water
33%
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 Capricorncommon
three or more planets clustered in Capricorn: Mercury, Sun, Uranus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Uranus gather in Capricorn. A stellium in Capricorn concentrates the chart on ambition, structure, and long-game authority. You build and carry responsibility at high volume: reputation, work, and the climb are not side plots, they are the spine.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Stellium in Piscescommon
three or more planets clustered in Pisces: Mars, Moon, Saturn

In your chart, Mars, Moon, Saturn gather in Pisces. A stellium in Pisces concentrates the chart on feeling, imagination, and the thin wall between selves. You absorb and dream at high volume: compassion, art, and the unseen define more of the story than hard edges do.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Pisces 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 Pisces stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Pisces 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.

Uranus opposition Neptuneorb 0.28°

In you, Uranus sits opposite Neptune, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form 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 opposition Neptuneorb 0.90°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Neptune, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Saturn square Plutoorb 0.91°

In you, Saturn grinds against Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Mercury conjunction Uranusorb 1.18°

In you, Mercury is fused with Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Moon conjunction Marsorb 1.39°

In you, the Moon is fused with Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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
Moon trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.7°

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

Sun trine Part of Fortuneorb 1.7°

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

Mars trine Black Moon Lilithorb 2.1°

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

Mercury trine Part of Fortuneorb 4.9°

A natural, flowing ease: Mercury 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 Saturnorb 4.9°

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

Where it works
Mercury opposition North Nodeorb 0.0°

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

Uranus opposition Neptuneorb 0.3°

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

Mercury opposition Vertexorb 0.6°

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

Mercury opposition Neptuneorb 0.9°

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

Saturn square Plutoorb 0.9°

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

Uranus opposition North Nodeorb 1.2°

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

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Chart data for Simone de Beauvoir
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun17°31' Capricorn2nd house·
Moon29°58' Pisces4th house·
Mercury14°16' Capricorn2nd house·
Venus15°54' Aquarius2nd house·
Mars28°35' Pisces4th house·
Jupiter11°13' Leo8th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Saturn22°26' Pisces3rd house·
Uranus13°05' Capricorn2nd house·
Neptune13°22' Cancer8th houseretrograde
Pluto23°20' Gemini7th houseretrograde
Chiron16°03' Aquarius3rd house·
North Node14°15' Cancer8th houseretrograde
South Node14°15' Capricorn2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith0°38' Leo8th house·
Part of Fortune19°10' Virgo9th house·
Vertex14°54' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercuryoppositionnorth-node0.00°separating
venusconjunctionchiron0.15°applying
uranusoppositionneptune0.28°applying
mercuryoppositionvertex0.64°applying
north-nodeconjunctionvertex0.65°separating
moontrinelilith0.67°applying
neptuneconjunctionnorth-node0.89°separating
mercuryoppositionneptune0.90°separating
saturnsquarepluto0.91°applying
uranusoppositionnorth-node1.18°applying
mercuryconjunctionuranus1.18°separating
moonconjunctionmars1.39°separating
neptuneconjunctionvertex1.54°separating
suntrinepart-of-fortune1.66°applying
uranusoppositionvertex1.82°applying
marstrinelilith2.05°applying
sunoppositionvertex2.61°separating
sunconjunctionmercury3.25°applying
sunoppositionnorth-node3.25°separating
saturnoppositionpart-of-fortune3.26°separating
sunoppositionneptune4.15°separating
plutosquarepart-of-fortune4.17°applying
sunconjunctionuranus4.43°separating
venusoppositionjupiter4.69°separating
jupiteroppositionchiron4.84°separating
mercurytrinepart-of-fortune4.91°applying
sunsextilesaturn4.91°applying
marssquarepluto5.24°separating
moonsquarepluto6.63°separating
moonconjunctionsaturn7.54°separating
sunquintilemoon0.45°separating
sunquintilemars0.94°separating
moonsemisquarevenus0.94°applying
venusquincunxvertex1.00°separating
moonsemisquarechiron1.09°applying
chironquincunxvertex1.15°separating
sunsemisextilechiron1.46°separating
sunsemisextilevenus1.61°applying
mercurysemisextilevenus1.64°applying
venusquincunxnorth-node1.65°separating
mercurysemisextilechiron1.79°applying
chironquincunxnorth-node1.80°separating
jupiterquincunxuranus1.86°separating