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Braden Mann

Braden Mann (born November 24, 1997, Houston, United States), aged 28, is an American football punter, kickoff specialist. Mann has played for New York Jets and Texas A&M Aggies football. Mann's honours include Ray Guy Award.

Braden Mann’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Braden Mann’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Seeker

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#1152

US rank in 2025

~46,512

Americans share it since 1916

2005

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1997, Braden came 267th among boys and 7,340th among girls, carried by 1,050 American boys and 12 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Braden’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on B (2) and closes on N (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

Braden’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Rose-gold · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1997, 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 Braden apart

Braden Mann took the Ray Guy Award in 2018, at 21.

Training came by way of Cy-Fair High School.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Braden Mann: Players of American football from Houston, Texas A&M Aggies football players and American football punters.

The same date carries Patrick Berg. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Cy-Fair High School
Awards
Ray Guy Award (2018)
Sport
American football
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Braden, according to the stars

Core essence

Braden is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Braden is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Braden wants to be loved

Braden 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 Braden you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Braden creates

How Braden makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Braden creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Braden is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Braden is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Braden does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Braden's birth date. Working below.

Where Braden sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Braden

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Braden

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

PrivateExpressive
Braden

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Braden

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Braden

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Braden

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Braden Mann

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

Braden’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 83.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 37.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over Houston that night

Computed for 29.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Houston at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 6.6° of the exact zenith.

Of the 97 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 29.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman cannot be seen from Houston at all: they sit past the −60.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon down and 22% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Braden's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet

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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Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Braden Mann's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 24, 1997, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Fire Ox

Stubborn, and usually right.

Braden Mann was born on November 24, 1997, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 7

Asks the better question.

Braden Mann's birth date, November 24, 1997, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Braden’s chart

Braden’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 0.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.7° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.2° orbSun fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.9° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.1° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.2° orbSun in Sagittarius · 2°30′☉2°Moon in Libra · 2°13′☽2°Mercury in Sagittarius · 23°34′☿23°Venus in Capricorn · 18°02′♀18°Mars in Capricorn · 11°47′♂11°Jupiter in Aquarius · 15°38′♃15°Saturn in Aries · 13°57′ · retrograde♄℞13°Uranus in Aquarius · 5°27′♅5°Neptune in Capricorn · 27°47′♆27°Pluto in Sagittarius · 5°21′♇5°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
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

  • stableUranussextilePluto0.1° orb

    Braden’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn1.6° to 1.8° orb

    Braden’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn1.8° to 2.6° orb

    Braden’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto2.4° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus2.5° to 3.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.6° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars6.2° to 6.3° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune7.7° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 5.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 11°02′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 3°17′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 12°27′ (moves 0.95° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 21°52′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 27°49′ (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 trine Neptune 0.0°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 0.7°
  • Eros trine Mars 0.7°
  • Ceres square Sun 0.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Mercury 1.7°
  • Ceres square Pluto 2.1°

Braden’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Braden’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
  • Sun quintile Jupiter 1.1°

Born the same day as Braden

Patrick Berg was born on November 24, 1997 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Houston, at 29.8°N, nothing below −60.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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Braden’s cards

Computed from November 24, 1997. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Braden’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q57586344 (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 Braden Mann at Wikipedia and X.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Braden Mann.

Quick answers about Braden Mann’s chart

How old is Braden Mann?
Braden Mann is 28 years old, born November 24, 1997 in Houston, United States.
What zodiac sign is Braden Mann?
Braden Mann is a Sagittarius: born November 24, 1997, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Braden Mann's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 24, 1997 birth.
How tall is Braden Mann?
Braden Mann is 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Braden Mann's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Braden Mann's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Braden Mann's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Braden Mann's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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