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João Cancelo

João Cancelo (born May 27, 1994, Barreiro, Portugal), aged 32, is a Portuguese footballer (born 1994). Cancelo has played for FC Barcelona.

João Cancelo’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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João Cancelo’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Storyteller

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

What João’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

7

Soul Urge · understanding

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on J (1) and closes on O (6).

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

João’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid

Ivory · Lilac · Botanical green

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 1994, 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 João apart

The working life starts in 2012, at 18.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for João Cancelo: F.C. Barreirense players, Footballers from Barreiro, Portugal and Al Hilal SFC players.

The same date carries Aymeric Laporte and Jacob Bixenman. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Working from
2012
Sport
association football
Citizenship
Portugal
Languages
Portuguese
Wikipedia editions
59

What the chart says

João, according to the stars

Core essence

João is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. João needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

How João wants to be loved

João wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. João gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How João creates

How João makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. João 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: João 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. João is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of João leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means João is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from João's birth date. Working below.

Where João sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
João

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
João

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

PrivateExpressive
João

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
João

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

PracticalVisionary
João

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
João

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 João Cancelo

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

João’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 84.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 40.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Barreiro that night

Computed for 38.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Barreiro was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 84.9° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 38.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −51.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Barreiro on any night.

The Moon, 90% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat -8° below the horizon.

How unusual João's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · No Fire planets

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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Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

João Cancelo's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 27, 1994, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Wood Dog

Guards the gate all night.

João Cancelo was born on May 27, 1994, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

João Cancelo's birth date, May 27, 1994, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in João’s chart

João’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 14° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.4° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 0.6° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1° orbUranus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.3° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.9° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 4° orbSun in Gemini · 5°53′☉5°Moon in Capricorn · 7°03′☽7°Mercury in Gemini · 28°40′☿28°Venus in Cancer · 7°37′♀7°Mars in Taurus · 2°36′♂2°Jupiter in Scorpio · 6°37′ · retrograde♃℞6°Saturn in Pisces · 11°49′♄11°Uranus in Capricorn · 26°03′ · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Capricorn · 23°05′ · retrograde♆℞23°Pluto in Scorpio · 26°26′ · retrograde♇℞26°

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

  • stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 7.2° orb

    João’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter0.4° to 1.6° orb

    João’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableUranussextilePluto0.4° orb

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

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune3.0° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn3.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.6° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysextileMars3.7° to 4.1° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn5.1° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn5.5° to 6.4° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus6.2° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironVirgo 3°28′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 12°11′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer or Gemini during this date

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 10°19′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 5°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres square Saturn 0.4°
  • Chiron trine Mars 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 1.1°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.1°
  • Eros sextile Mars 2.2°
  • Chiron square Sun 2.4°
  • Hygiea square Venus 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 2.9°

João’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

Configurations in João’s chart

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

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.7°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.2°

Born the same day as João

2 other people here were born on May 27, 1994, 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Barreiro sits at 38.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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João’s cards

Computed from May 27, 1994. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Storyteller

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

João’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6298063 (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.

Portrait by Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

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Quick answers about João Cancelo’s chart

How old is João Cancelo?
João Cancelo is 32 years old, born May 27, 1994 in Barreiro, Portugal.
What zodiac sign is João Cancelo?
João Cancelo is a Gemini: born May 27, 1994, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is João Cancelo's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 27, 1994 birth.
How tall is João Cancelo?
João Cancelo is 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is João Cancelo's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is João Cancelo's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is João Cancelo's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is João Cancelo's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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