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Dries van Noten

Dries van Noten (born May 12, 1958, Antwerp, Belgium), aged 68, is a Belgian fashion designer. Noten's honours include Gouden Penning.

Dries van Noten’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Dries van Noten’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

Dries’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

4 · 3 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Blush · Terracotta

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Dries, according to the stars

Core essence

Dries is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Dries is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Dries is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Dries needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Dries wants to be loved

Dries wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Dries creates

How Dries makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Dries creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Dries is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Dries is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Dries slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Dries's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Dries sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Dries

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Dries

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Dries

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Dries

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Dries

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Dries

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Dries van Noten in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Try rushing a Taurus. Go on.

Dries van Noten's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 12, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Earth Dog

The first call when it's bad.

Dries van Noten was born on May 12, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Dries van Noten's birth date, May 12, 1958, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Dries’s chart

Dries’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Dries van Noten, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.2° orbMoon fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.5° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.8° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.9° orbMercury faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.1° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.3° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.9° orbSun in Taurus · 21°13′☉21°Moon in Pisces · 11°46′☽11°Mercury in Aries · 25°30′☿25°Venus in Aries · 7°41′♀7°Mars in Pisces · 11°17′♂11°Jupiter in Libra · 23°47′ · retrograde♃℞23°Saturn in Sagittarius · 24°37′ · retrograde♄℞24°Uranus in Leo · 7°52′♅7°Neptune in Scorpio · 2°55′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Leo · 29°47′♇29°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableMoonconjunctionMars0.0° to 6.1° orb

    Dries’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Dries’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn0.4° to 1.4° orb

    Dries’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn0.8° orb

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

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter1.2° to 2.2° orb

    Dries’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb

    Dries’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto3.8° to 4.7° orb

    Dries’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.9° to 5.0° orb

    Dries’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.1° to 5.2° orb

    Dries’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune7.0° to 7.9° orb

    Dries’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 2.9° to 14.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 4.0° to 14.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 22°36′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Dries making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 0°25′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Dries is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.

  • ♡ ErosPisces 8°13′ (moves 0.47° over the day)

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Dries is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 17°13′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Dries is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 9°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Dries carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.1°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 1.3°
  • Chiron square Sun 1.4°
  • Chiron sextile Saturn 2.0°
  • Ceres square Neptune 2.5°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 2.9°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Dries’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Dries is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Dries’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mercury, Saturn, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Mercury semi-square Mars 0.8°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Dries van Noten, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Dries’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Fool

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Dries van Noten, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Dries’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1258918, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

The same Dries van Noten at Wikipedia and Instagram.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Dries van Noten.

Quick answers about Dries van Noten’s chart

How old is Dries van Noten?
Dries van Noten is 68 years old, born May 12, 1958 in Antwerp, Belgium.
What zodiac sign is Dries van Noten?
Dries van Noten is a Taurus: born May 12, 1958, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog.
What is Dries van Noten's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 12, 1958 birth.
What time was Dries van Noten born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Dries van Noten's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the May 12, 1958 birth date.
What is Dries van Noten's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 12, 1958 birth date.
Where is Dries van Noten's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Dries van Noten's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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