Blake Brandel
Blake Brandel (born January 23, 1997, Milwaukie, United States), aged 29, is an American football offensive tackle. Brandel has played for Minnesota Vikings.
Blake Brandel’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Blake
Blake Brandel’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Blake in the U.S.?
#295
US rank in 2025
~206,623
Americans share it since 1883
2012
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1997, Blake came 80th among boys and 953rd among girls, carried by 4,728 American boys and 207 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Blake’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on B (2) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 5: tact against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Blake’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, 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 Blake apart
The classrooms behind this chart: Central Catholic High School and Oregon State University.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Blake Brandel: Sportspeople from Milwaukie, Oregon, Players of American football from Oregon and Oregon State Beavers football players.
Hideki Yukawa (1907) and Doutzen Kroes (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Central Catholic High School and Oregon State University
- Sport
- American football
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
Blake, according to the stars
Core essence
Blake is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Blake is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Blake 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 Blake 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 Blake wants to be loved
Blake wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Blake you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Blake creates
How Blake makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Blake creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Blake is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Blake 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Blake fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Blake's birth date. Working below.
Where Blake sits
Six lines
Blake’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Blake Brandel
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Milwaukie 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 Milwaukie that night
Computed for 45.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Milwaukie was Capella, in Auriga, 87.7° up.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 45.4°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −44.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Milwaukie on any night.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
How unusual Blake's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Mercury · A bowl chart
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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Blake Brandel's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 23, 1997, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Rat
Fire RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Blake Brandel was born on January 23, 1997, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Blake Brandel's birth date, January 23, 1997, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Blake’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Blake Brandel's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Blake Brandel combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Blake’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonoppositionUranus0.0° to 7.4° orb
Blake’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMoontrinePluto0.0° to 6.9° orb
Blake’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionMoon0.1° to 7.6° orb
Blake’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.
stableMarssextilePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.2° to 1.2° orb
stableMarstrineUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn0.5° to 1.5° orb
stableUranussextilePluto0.5° orb
stableSuntrineMars0.6° to 1.5° orb
stableSunsextilePluto0.7° to 1.7° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.0° to 2.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Blake’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 1°39′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 27°58′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 2°15′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 17°30′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 23°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.3°
- Hygiea square Venus 0.5°
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.1°
- Eros conjunction Sun 1.6°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron square Sun 2.2°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 2.3°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.5°
- Eros trine Mars 2.7°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.8°
- Chiron square Uranus 2.9°
Blake’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 7 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn10.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 6 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun7 pts
7 major aspects
Configurations in Blake’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Jupiter, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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Also born on January 23
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- Dan BurnEnglish association football player (born 1992)
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Blake’s cards
Computed from January 23, 1997. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Blake’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q91938617 (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.
The same Blake Brandel at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Blake Brandel.
Quick answers about Blake Brandel’s chart
- How old is Blake Brandel?
- Blake Brandel is 29 years old, born January 23, 1997 in Milwaukie, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Blake Brandel?
- Blake Brandel is an Aquarius: born January 23, 1997, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Blake Brandel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 23, 1997 birth.
- What is Blake Brandel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Blake Brandel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Blake Brandel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Blake Brandel's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 7 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
