Jean CocteauImage: Wikimedia Commons

Art · July 5, 1889 · Maisons-Laffitte

Jean Cocteau's Birth Chart

Sun in Cancer · Moon in Libra

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th century and highly influential on the Surrealist and Dadaist movements, among others. The National Observer suggested that "of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art, Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man". Wikipedia

Section I · The core

The two luminaries

Two lights set the tone of the whole chart: the Sun, the identity; the Moon, the emotional world.

Jean Cocteau's Sun, in Cancer

Your core is care and protection: memory, shelter and the ability to make a home anywhere. Your life purpose is nourished by belonging, care and emotional memory. Your strength lies in welcoming, protecting and creating spaces where sensitivity is valued.

Jean Cocteau's Moon, in Libra

Your emotional peace depends on harmony around you: conflict weighs on you, beauty repairs you. You project your emotional stability onto your bonds, always seeking mutual understanding and empathy.

Without an exact birth time, the Moon could fall in the neighbouring sign: it changed sign that day.

Section II · The map

Their natal wheel

The sky on the day they were born. The outer ring is the twelve signs; the lines across the centre, the aspects between planets. Without a birth time, houses and the Ascendant aren't drawn.

Harmonious aspectTense aspect

Section III · The detail

Planets and aspects

The exact numbers behind the drawing. Each table expands one layer of the wheel.

Jean Cocteau's placements

We compute the placements for the day of birth. Without the exact time the Ascendant and houses can't be fixed, but each planet's sign is reliable.

PlanetSignDegree
Sun Cancer13°35
Moon Libra4°21
Mercury Gemini24°56
Venus Taurus28°03
Mars Cancer8°37
Jupiter Capricorn2°02
Saturn Leo18°40
Uranus Libra17°55
Neptune Gemini3°32
Pluto Gemini6°18

Jean Cocteau's aspects

Each aspect is an angle between two planets; it defines how they speak to each other. Aspects to the Moon are approximate: they depend on the exact birth time.

SaturnSextile Uranus0.8°
MoonTrine Neptune0.8°
MoonTrine Pluto1.9°
MoonSquare Jupiter2.3°
NeptuneConjunction Pluto2.8°
MoonSquare Mars4.3°
SunSquare Uranus4.3°
SunConjunction Mars5.0°
VenusConjunction Neptune5.5°
MoonTrine Venus6.3°
MarsOpposition Jupiter6.6°
MercuryOpposition Jupiter7.1°

Elements and modalities

How their energy is split across the four elements and the three modalities.

Fire1
Earth2
Air5
Water2
Cardinal5
Fixed2
Mutable3

Section IV · The signature

The signature of their sky

The whole at a glance: how the planets are spread, and the accents that set the overall tone of the chart.

Chart shape

Bucket

A group of planets with a single one opposite: that 'handle' planet becomes the channel of the whole chart.

Dominants

Their energy concentrates in the element of Air and the Cardinal modality.

Traits

Moon is the most connected planet in their chart: 7 aspects tie it to the rest.

Patterns
StelliumMercury · Neptune · Pluto

Three or more planets together in Gemini: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.

T-squareMars · Jupiter · Moon

An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.

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