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Andrew Van Ginkel

Andrew Van Ginkel (born July 1, 1995, Rock Valley, United States), aged 31, is an American football player (born 1995). Ginkel has played for Miami Dolphins, South Dakota Coyotes football and Iowa Western Reivers football.

Andrew Van Ginkel’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Andrew Van Ginkel’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Pioneer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Andrew in the U.S.?

#73

US rank in 2025

~1,334,415

Americans share it since 1880

1987

its peak year

Andrew ranked 11th among boys and 2,347th among girls in 1995, the year of this birth, with 25,860 American boys and 56 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Andrew’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

3

Soul Urge · being heard

22

Personality · quietly formidable

The name opens on A (1) and closes on W (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Andrew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1995, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Andrew apart

Training came by way of University of South Dakota and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Wikipedia's editors put Andrew Van Ginkel under People from Rock Valley, Iowa, South Dakota Coyotes football players and Iowa Western Reivers football players.

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961) and Pamela Anderson (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of South Dakota and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sport
American football
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Andrew, according to the stars

Core essence

Andrew feels the room before entering it. The core of Andrew is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Andrew, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Andrew needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Andrew needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Andrew wants to be loved

Andrew wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Andrew like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Andrew creates

How Andrew makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Andrew creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Andrew is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Andrew is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Andrew channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Andrew's birth date. Working below.

Where Andrew sits

Six lines

Andrew’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Andrew

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Andrew

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Andrew

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Andrew

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Andrew

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Andrew

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Andrew Van Ginkel

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rock Valley on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Rock Valley that night

Computed for 43.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Rock Valley at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 7.6° of the exact zenith.

Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 43.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Rock Valley at all: they sit past the −46.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 15% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -1° down.

How unusual Andrew's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Venus · 1 planet at a critical degree

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Andrew Van Ginkel at a glance

Cancer Sun

Moody, and loyal past reason.

Andrew Van Ginkel's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 1, 1995, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Wood Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Andrew Van Ginkel was born on July 1, 1995, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Andrew Van Ginkel's birth date, July 1, 1995, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Andrew’s chart

Andrew’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.2° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.9° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.1° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 2.7° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.6° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.5° orbSun in Cancer · 9°24′☉9°Moon in Leo · 20°22′☽20°Mercury in Gemini · 17°42′☿17°Venus in Gemini · 25°38′♀25°Mars in Virgo · 18°45′♂18°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 7°03′ · retrograde♃℞7°Saturn in Pisces · 24°44′♄24°Uranus in Capricorn · 29°16′ · retrograde♅℞29°Neptune in Capricorn · 24°35′ · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Scorpio · 28°12′ · retrograde♇℞28°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb

    Andrew’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn0.3° to 1.5° orb

    Andrew’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.8° to 1.3° orb

    Andrew’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune4.7° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune5.5° to 6.1° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.7° to 6.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Andrew’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo 21°47′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 2°30′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAries 2°55′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 5°12′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 20°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 2.4°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.8°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 3.0°

Andrew’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    disposes Uranus, Neptune; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Andrew’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.4°

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Andrew’s cards

Computed from July 1, 1995. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Pioneer

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Andrew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q63351582 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Atlanta Falcons, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Andrew Van Ginkel.

Quick answers about Andrew Van Ginkel’s chart

How old is Andrew Van Ginkel?
Andrew Van Ginkel is 31 years old, born July 1, 1995 in Rock Valley, United States.
What zodiac sign is Andrew Van Ginkel?
Andrew Van Ginkel is a Cancer: born July 1, 1995, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is Andrew Van Ginkel's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 1, 1995 birth.
What is Andrew Van Ginkel's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Andrew Van Ginkel's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Andrew Van Ginkel's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Andrew Van Ginkel's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Uranus, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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