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Kimi Räikkönen

Kimi Räikkönen (born October 17, 1979, Espoo, Finland), aged 47, is a Finnish racing driver. Räikkönen has played for Lotus F1, Sauber Motorsport and McLaren. Räikkönen's honours include DHL Fastest Lap Award and Lorenzo Bandini Trophy.

Kimi Räikkönen’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Kimi Räikkönen’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Strategist

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#5488

US rank in 2025

~2,118

Americans share it since 1915

1965

its peak year

The SSA recorded 19 American girls named Kimi in 1979: 3,972nd for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kimi’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 K (2) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

Kimi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Amber · Blush · Gold

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 1979, 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 Kimi apart

The Lorenzo Bandini Trophy came in 2003, when Kimi Räikkönen was 24.

Kimi Räikkönen was married Minttu Virtanen.

Wikipedia files Kimi Räikkönen under Finnish racing drivers, Manor Motorsport drivers and Formula Ford drivers.

Eminem (1972) and Arthur Miller (1915) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
DHL Fastest Lap Award (2007) and Lorenzo Bandini Trophy (2003)
Nominated for
Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year
Sport
Formula One
Citizenship
Finland
Languages
Finnish and English
Wikipedia editions
90

What the chart says

Kimi, according to the stars

Core essence

Kimi makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Kimi is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Kimi is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Kimi needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Kimi wants to be loved

Kimi wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Kimi even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Kimi creates

How Kimi makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Kimi creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Kimi 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Kimi is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Kimi fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Kimi's birth date. Working below.

Where Kimi sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Kimi

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kimi

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

PrivateExpressive
Kimi

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kimi

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

PracticalVisionary
Kimi

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kimi

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 Kimi Räikkönen

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

Kimi’s birth-night reference starAlderaminwhite · CepheusAlderamin, in Cepheus. A white star, 82.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alderamin →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 33° 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 Espoo that night

Computed for 60.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alderamin stood nearest the zenith over Espoo at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.1° above the horizon in Cepheus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 97 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 60.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −29.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 10% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 28° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Espoo, Finland
Lives in
Espoo

Wikidata records Espoo as Kimi Räikkönen's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Kimi Räikkönen: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Kimi's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all

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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Kimi Räikkönen at a glance

Libra Sun

Makes the peace, keeps the peace.

Kimi Räikkönen's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 17, 1979, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Earth Goat

Artist first, everything second.

Kimi Räikkönen was born on October 17, 1979, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Kimi Räikkönen's birth date, October 17, 1979, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Kimi’s chart

Kimi’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.6° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 1.8° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.1° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.4° orbSun fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.1° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.1° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 5° orbSun in Libra · 23°26′☉23°Moon in Virgo · 12°50′☽12°Mercury in Scorpio · 14°38′☿14°Venus in Scorpio · 7°29′♀7°Mars in Leo · 13°00′♂13°Jupiter in Virgo · 3°21′♃3°Saturn in Virgo · 21°43′♄21°Uranus in Scorpio · 19°37′♅19°Neptune in Sagittarius · 18°20′♆18°Pluto in Libra · 19°19′♇19°

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareMars1.2° to 2.0° orb

    Kimi’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus2.1° orb

    Kimi’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto3.6° to 4.6° orb

  • stableVenussextileJupiter3.6° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.3° to 5.6° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune5.1° to 5.6° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars5.2° to 5.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus6.4° to 6.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.1° to 7.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 12°23′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 9°56′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 12°49′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 20°03′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Mars 0.2°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.4°
  • Chiron square Mars 0.6°
  • Hygiea opposition Saturn 1.7°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 1.7°
  • Eros square Mercury 1.8°
  • Chiron opposition Mercury 2.3°

Kimi’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Kimi’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.

  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.7°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 0.8°
  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.0°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Kimi’s cards

Computed from October 17, 1979. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kimi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q11192 (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 Zach Catanzareti Photo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kimi Räikkönen.

Quick answers about Kimi Räikkönen’s chart

How old is Kimi Räikkönen?
Kimi Räikkönen is 47 years old, born October 17, 1979 in Espoo, Finland.
What zodiac sign is Kimi Räikkönen?
Kimi Räikkönen is a Libra: born October 17, 1979, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Kimi Räikkönen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 17, 1979 birth.
How tall is Kimi Räikkönen?
Kimi Räikkönen is 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Kimi Räikkönen's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Kimi Räikkönen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kimi Räikkönen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kimi Räikkönen's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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