Omar Sy — natal chart
What does Omar Sy’s natal chart reveal?
Omar Sy, born on 20 January 1978 in Trappes, France, to a Senegalese father and a Mauritanian mother, is a French actor and comedian. He first gained recognition in the comedy duo Omar et Fred on television in the 2000s. International stardom came with "The Intouchables" (2011), for which he won the César Award for Best Actor, becoming the first Black actor to receive it. He has since appeared in Hollywood films including "X-Men: Days of Future Past" (2014) and "Jurassic World" (2015), and starred as the lead in the global hit Netflix series "Lupin" (2021), which made him one of the most internationally recognized French actors.
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1978-01-20 · 00:35 · Trappes, France Reliability: AA · vetted record
The Welcome
Something in Omar Sy's presence puts people at ease before he has said a word. It's not performance — it comes from somewhere structural in how he meets the world. His Ascendant is in Libra, which is the sign of harmony, fairness, and the gift of making the person in front of you feel seen and respected. The Ascendant is the face a person naturally meets the world with, and Libra here gives a warmth of bearing that is entirely genuine, not calculated. What's notable is that the North Node — the direction the chart is naturally drawn toward over a lifetime — is also in Libra. This isn't incidental: the whole arc of Sy's career, from the comedy duo Omar et Fred to the global reach of "Lupin," has moved steadily toward work that connects, that bridges, that brings an audience into something rather than keeping them at arm's length.
The Private Sun
The Sun in Capricorn sits in the fourth house — the house of roots, family, private life, and the foundation on which a person builds. Capricorn is the sign of steady effort, long-term structure, and the kind of authority that is earned rather than claimed. In the fourth house, this placement tells a story that is less about public ambition than about interior reliability: a person who does the work not to be seen doing it, but because structure and commitment are how he makes sense of the world. This reading of the chart connects directly to what Sy has said in many interviews about his family — five siblings raised in Trappes, the discipline instilled by his parents, the way his upbringing formed his sense of responsibility. Mercury and Venus are also in Capricorn in the fourth house, alongside the Sun, making this a real cluster of identity at the level of roots and private commitment. The thinking (Mercury) and the values (Venus) are anchored in the same soil as the sense of self.
Warmth and Drive in Tension
Mars in Leo in the eleventh house — the house of belonging, collective projects, and wider communities — brings ambition, generosity, and a natural stage presence into the domain of public engagement. Leo is the sign of creative expression and the desire to shine; Mars here is energetic, magnanimous, willing to take up space for the sake of the group. Saturn also sits in Leo in the eleventh house, and this conjunction of drive and discipline in the same place is significant: the ambition is real, and so is the long-term commitment to something larger than individual success. The tension between Sun in Capricorn and Mars in Leo — these two planets pulling across the chart from one another — describes something that anyone who has followed Sy's career will recognize: the private man who has no particular interest in celebrity, and the performer who knows exactly how to fill a room. Neither side cancels the other; they create the specific texture of his presence.
The Emotional Register
The Moon in Gemini in the ninth house — the house of ideas, travel, cultures, and the broadening of perspective — gives an emotional life that is genuinely nourished by movement, exchange, and the encounter with new worlds. Gemini gathers, synthesizes, finds the thread that connects different things; the ninth house gives those connections an expansive quality, an appetite for what lies outside the familiar. Sy grew up in Trappes, moved into French comedy, then into French cinema, then into American blockbusters, then into global Netflix — each step a genuine expansion of territory, not just a career strategy. The Moon here is in a flowing relationship with Pluto, which gives emotional intelligence a depth and a tenacity that goes beyond surface warmth; he reads people accurately, and the things that matter to him matter with real weight.
Love and Values
Sun and Venus are joined in Capricorn in the fourth house, within half a degree — one of the tightest aspects in the entire chart. Venus governs how a person loves, what they value, what they find beautiful. In Capricorn, Venus is loyal, deliberate, and oriented toward building something durable rather than chasing intensity. Joined so closely to the Sun in the house of the private self, it says that the relationship between identity and love is almost seamless — he is most himself in the context of lasting commitment. This Capricorn Venus is in tension with Mars in Leo: the desire to nurture and sustain (Capricorn) pulls against the desire to perform and expand (Leo), and this productive friction is part of what keeps both the personal and professional registers vital.
The Public Vocation — Midheaven
The Midheaven — the public career point, describing how a person becomes known to the world — is in Cancer. Cancer is the sign of care, nourishment, emotional attunement, and the quality of making people feel at home. For someone who won the César Award for a film about an unlikely friendship crossing every social boundary — "The Intouchables" — and then built a global audience with "Lupin" by playing a character who is stylish, warm, and principled, a Midheaven in Cancer is a very exact description of what his public work actually does: it brings people in, it creates warmth, it insists on the full humanity of its characters. Lilith, which represents an untamed, unsurrendered quality, is also in Cancer in the tenth house (the house of career and public standing). This adds a dimension of refusal: the warmth is real, but it is not compliance. Sy's public image has never been one of accommodation — he has been explicit about where he comes from and what he stands for, including a public and sustained engagement with questions of representation in French cinema.
Jupiter, Saturn, and the Long Arc
Jupiter and Saturn are both in Gemini in the ninth house, and they form a flowing aspect with each other — Jupiter expanding, Saturn structuring, both operating in the domain of ideas, movement, and cross-cultural encounter. This pairing in the ninth house is a very apt description of a career that has moved progressively outward: from local French comedy to international cinema to global streaming. The ninth house governs not just physical travel but the widening of frames — the willingness to be understood across cultural and linguistic distances. Jupiter and Saturn here are not in conflict; they work together to build something wide and lasting at the same time.
Chiron and the Wound That Gives
Chiron — an old wound that becomes a gift over time — is in Taurus in the eighth house, the house of transformation, shared resources, and what is earned through passage rather than inheritance. Taurus is the sign of material security, stability, the body. A Chiron in Taurus in the eighth house can carry a particular sensitivity around having enough, around economic security, around the vulnerability that comes with depending on shared structures. Growing up in Trappes, in a large immigrant family, that sensitivity has a real biographical context — even if the chart can only point toward the quality, not assert the specific story. The gift of Chiron in the eighth house is the capacity, once the wound has been metabolized, to help others through their own crossings. Sy has been notably consistent in his public acknowledgment of his roots and in supporting communities that don't have the platform he now occupies.
Portrait
The Libra Ascendant and the Capricorn cluster in the fourth house together describe someone who carries authority lightly and warmth seriously — not the other way round. The tension between Mars in Leo and the Capricorn Sun means the ambition is real but it has never been its own justification; it is always in service of something larger — a story worth telling, a community worth representing, a connection worth making. What "The Intouchables" did for French cinema and what "Lupin" did for global French-language television is not separate from what this chart describes: work that meets people where they are, that doesn't condescend, that brings its own specificity without requiring the audience to already be inside the reference. The warmth on screen and the discipline off it are not two different people. They are one person, consistently.
The chart
How to read it →Frequently asked questions
What is Omar Sy's zodiac sign?
Omar Sy's Sun sign is Capricorn — the Sun was in Capricorn at birth (1978).
What is Omar Sy's moon sign?
Omar Sy has the Moon in Gemini. The Moon sign describes the emotional and instinctive layer of the chart.
What is Omar Sy's rising sign?
Omar Sy's rising sign (ascendant) is Libra — the sign on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth.
When and where was Omar Sy born?
Omar Sy was born in 1978 in Trappes, France.