Mazal Aries · rising Pisces
Serge Gainsbourg's mazal
French singer-songwriter — born 2 April 1928 at 4:55 am, in Paris
12 Nissan 5688
י״ב נִיסָן תרפ״ח
Born before sunset, which fell at 6:24 pm that day in Paris: his Hebrew date is that of the same day.
| Birth | 2 April 1928, 4:55 am, Paris |
| Source of the time | Paris birth register (Gauquelin survey) |
| Sunset | 6:24 pm that day |
| Hebrew date | 12 Nissan 5688 |
| Hebrew month | Nissan נִיסָן |
| Sign (mazal) | Aries טלה |
| Rising sign | Pisces |
| Planet of the month | Mars |
| Element | Fire |
| Tribe of Israel | Reuben |
| Gemstone | The ruby (odem) |
Nissan is the first of the months — “this month shall be to you the beginning of months” (Exodus 12:2). He was born on the 12th, three days before Passover.
The chart in a paragraph
Aries, rising Pisces
A Nissan fire under a veil of water. The Aries mazal gives the drive, the first move, the taste for opening a road and unsettling it a little — but Pisces was rising in the east, and it is a mist you meet first: the dreamer, the melancholic, before the burner. Tradition would call this a sky that hides its fire.
This is what tradition reads in that sky — and it sets its own limit at once: “Israel is above the mazal” (Shabbat 156a). A sky describes a slope, never a fate.
What tradition says
The month of Nissan, not the person
What you read here describes a month of the Hebrew calendar: its mazal, its planet, its element, its tribe and its stone, as reported by the Talmud, the Book of Creation and the Book of the Angel Raziel. Nothing is asserted about Serge Gainsbourg's character — we give a date, a time, and what tradition attaches to the month. Not a portrait.
The rising sign does not depend on the month but on the time and the place: it is the sign that was climbing the eastern horizon at the moment of birth. It changes roughly every two hours — without an exact time it cannot be calculated. That is why this page only presents births whose hour is on record.
The other eleven
One mazal, one name
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