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Ivan Glasenberg

Ivan Glasenberg (born January 7, 1957, Johannesburg, South Africa), aged 69, is a Former CEO of Glencore International.

Ivan Glasenberg’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Ivan Glasenberg’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Diplomat

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

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

#163

US rank in 2025

~150,787

Americans share it since 1880

2004

its peak year

Ivan ranked 317th in 1957, the year of this birth, with 577 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ivan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

3

Soul Urge · being heard

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on I (9) 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

Ivan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 4 · 9

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 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1956, 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 Ivan apart

Training came by way of USC Marshall School of Business and University of the Witwatersrand.

The same date carries Katie Couric. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
USC Marshall School of Business and University of the Witwatersrand
Citizenship
Switzerland and South Africa
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
13

What the chart says

Ivan, according to the stars

Core essence

Ivan is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Ivan is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

How Ivan wants to be loved

Ivan wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Ivan and watch them fall for you again.

How Ivan creates

How Ivan 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. Ivan 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: Ivan is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ivan is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Ivan gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Ivan's birth date. Working below.

Where Ivan sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Ivan

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ivan

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Ivan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ivan

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

PracticalVisionary
Ivan

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ivan

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 Ivan Glasenberg

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg that night

Computed for 26.20°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Johannesburg at 9 p.m. that evening: Zaurak of Eridanus, within 12.6° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.

From 26.2°S not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon up and 36% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Ivan's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Ivan Glasenberg in 15 seconds

Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Ivan Glasenberg's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 7, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Fire Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Ivan Glasenberg was born on January 7, 1957, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Ivan Glasenberg's birth date, January 7, 1957, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Ivan’s chart

Ivan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Mars · Square, 0.5° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 1.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 2.6° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.3° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 5.8° orbSun in Capricorn · 16°52′☉16°Moon in Pisces · 25°47′☽25°Mercury in Capricorn · 24°08′ · retrograde☿℞24°Venus in Sagittarius · 23°13′♀23°Mars in Aries · 17°23′♂17°Jupiter in Libra · 1°40′♃1°Saturn in Sagittarius · 9°59′♄9°Uranus in Leo · 5°42′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Scorpio · 2°24′♆2°Pluto in Virgo · 0°08′ · retrograde♇℞0°

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

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
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Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsquareMars0.3° to 0.7° orb

    Ivan’s core identity grinds against their drive.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb

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

  • stableUranussquareNeptune3.3° orb

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

  • stableJupitersextileUranus4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus4.2° to 4.3° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars5.5° to 6.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 3.4° to 14.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 3.9° to 15.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysquareMarsorb from 5.9° to 7.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 10°03′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 11°51′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 7°18′ (moves 0.62° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 18°12′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 14°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Saturn 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 0.8°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 1.9°
  • Eros square Saturn 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 3.0°

Ivan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts

    disposes Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Ivan’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 Pluto 0.0°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°

Born the same day as Ivan

Katie Couric was born on January 7, 1957 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 92 catalog stars stood above Johannesburg, at 26.2°S that night, with Zaurak nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.

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Ivan’s cards

Computed from January 7, 1957. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ivan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q22989 (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.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ivan Glasenberg.

Quick answers about Ivan Glasenberg’s chart

How old is Ivan Glasenberg?
Ivan Glasenberg is 69 years old, born January 7, 1957 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
What zodiac sign is Ivan Glasenberg?
Ivan Glasenberg is a Capricorn: born January 7, 1957, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Ivan Glasenberg's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 7, 1957 birth.
What is Ivan Glasenberg's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Ivan Glasenberg's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ivan Glasenberg's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ivan Glasenberg's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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