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Jens Castrop

Jens Castrop (born July 29, 2003, Düsseldorf, Germany), aged 23, is a German footballer (born 2003). Castrop has played for 1. FC Nürnberg, 1. FC Köln II and VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Jens Castrop’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Jens Castrop’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#5298

US rank in 2025

~2,456

Americans share it since 1884

1966

its peak year

Of the names registered in 2003, Jens came 3,779th, carried by 23 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jens’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Jens’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Ruby, Ruby, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🪷 Lotus

Sky blue · Gold · Soft pink

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 2003, 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 Jens apart

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jens Castrop: South Korea men's international footballers, German people of South Korean descent and Naturalized citizens of South Korea.

The same date carries Kimia Hosseini and Renato Veiga. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Sport
association football
Citizenship
Germany and South Korea
Languages
German
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Jens, according to the stars

Core essence

Jens is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Jens is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Jens 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 Jens 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 Jens creates

How Jens makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Jens 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: Jens is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Jens 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Jens 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 Jens's birth date. Working below.

Where Jens sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jens

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jens

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

PrivateExpressive
Jens

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jens

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

PracticalVisionary
Jens

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jens

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jens Castrop

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

Jens’s birth-night reference starEdasichwarm orange · DracoEdasich, in Draco. A warm orange star, 81.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Edasich →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 12° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Düsseldorf that night

Computed for 51.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Düsseldorf was Edasich, in Draco, 81.2° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 86 catalog stars above the horizon.

Düsseldorf sits at 51.2°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −38.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Düsseldorf on any night.

The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, was still up; the Sun sat -3° below the horizon.

How unusual Jens's chart is

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Leo · No Earth planets · 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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The quick version

Leo Sun

The room rearranges itself.

Jens Castrop's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 29, 2003, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Water Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Jens Castrop was born on July 29, 2003, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Jens Castrop's birth date, July 29, 2003, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Jens’s chart

Jens’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.1° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.6° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 4.5° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 4.5° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 5.2° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 5.6° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 6.1° orbSun in Leo · 5°53′☉5°Moon in Leo · 7°28′☽7°Mercury in Leo · 28°13′☿28°Venus in Leo · 0°17′♀0°Mars in Pisces · 10°08′ · retrograde♂℞10°Jupiter in Leo · 23°43′♃23°Saturn in Cancer · 7°03′♄7°Uranus in Pisces · 1°50′ · retrograde♅℞1°Neptune in Aquarius · 11°58′ · retrograde♆℞11°Pluto in Sagittarius · 17°29′ · retrograde♇℞17°

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

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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

  • stableSunconjunctionMoon0.1° to 7.7° orb

    Jens’s core identity and feelings act as one.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.8° to 4.4° orb

    Jens’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn3.0° to 3.1° orb

    Jens’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.8° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.1° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.5° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune5.6° to 6.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto6.1° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 1.3° to 13.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 3.4° to 16.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleJupiteroppositionUranusorb from 8.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire6 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 13°55′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 25°19′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra or Virgo during this date

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 1°59′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.1°
  • Eros sextile Venus 0.2°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.6°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 2.9°

Jens’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter3 pts

    disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Jens’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, JupiterThree 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.

  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 1.5°
  • Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.7°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°

Born the same day as Jens

2 other people here were born on July 29, 2003, 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Düsseldorf, at 51.2°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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Jens’s cards

Computed from July 29, 2003. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jens’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q98829565 (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 Jens Castrop at Wikipedia and Instagram.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jens Castrop.

Quick answers about Jens Castrop’s chart

How old is Jens Castrop?
Jens Castrop is 23 years old, born July 29, 2003 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
What zodiac sign is Jens Castrop?
Jens Castrop is a Leo: born July 29, 2003, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Jens Castrop's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 29, 2003 birth.
How tall is Jens Castrop?
Jens Castrop is 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Jens Castrop's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Jens Castrop's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jens Castrop's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jens Castrop's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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