Manuel Akanji
Manuel Akanji (born July 19, 1995, Neftenbach, Switzerland), aged 31, is a Swiss footballer. Akanji has played for Inter Milan.
Manuel Akanji’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Manuel
Manuel Akanji’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Manuel in the U.S.?
#371
US rank in 2025
~192,742
Americans share it since 1880
2005
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,366 American boys and 11 girls named Manuel in 1995: 150th among boys and 7,863rd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Manuel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
2
Soul Urge · closeness
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Manuel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
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 1995, 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 Manuel apart
Manuel Akanji was 19 when the work began in 2014.
Wikipedia files Manuel Akanji under Footballers from the canton of Zurich, People from Winterthur District and FC Winterthur players.
Romee Strijd shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Working from
- 2014
- Sport
- association football
- Citizenship
- Switzerland and Nigeria
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Manuel, according to the stars
Core essence
Manuel feels the room before entering it. The core of Manuel is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Manuel, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Manuel wants to be loved
Manuel 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. Manuel gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Manuel creates
How Manuel makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Manuel creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Manuel is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Manuel 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Manuel channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Manuel's birth date. Working below.
Where Manuel sits
Six lines
Manuel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Manuel Akanji
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Neftenbach 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 Neftenbach that night
Computed for 47.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Edasich stood nearest the zenith over Neftenbach at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.5° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 47.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −42.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 47% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat -2° below the horizon.
How unusual Manuel's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · Grand trine · Five planets retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →Manuel Akanji at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Manuel Akanji's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 19, 1995, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Pig
Wood PigGives more than it gets.
Manuel Akanji was born on July 19, 1995, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Manuel Akanji's birth date, July 19, 1995, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Manuel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Manuel Akanji's date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Manuel Akanji combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Manuel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMarstrineUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Manuel’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.3° orb
Manuel’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.5° orb
Manuel’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.6° to 1.4° orb
stableMarssextilePluto0.6° to 1.2° orb
stableUranussextilePluto0.6° to 0.7° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn1.2° to 2.2° orb
stableSuntrinePluto1.2° to 2.1° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.7° to 2.7° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableSunsextileMars2.4° to 2.7° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Manuel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 23°23′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 9°43′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 8°47′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 2°03′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 22°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.7°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.5°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.9°
- Eros trine Jupiter 2.9°
Manuel’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; 6 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn7 pts
disposes Uranus, Neptune; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Manuel’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
Kite · Sun, Saturn, Pluto, MarsA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Sun, Saturn, Pluto, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
- Kite · Sun, Saturn, Pluto, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.5°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.5°
Born the same day as Manuel
Romee Strijd was born on July 19, 1995 too, 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Neftenbach, at 47.5°N, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Pig years
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Daniel Day-LewisBritish actor
- Paul WalkerAmerican actor
- W. H. AudenBritish-American poet
Other Cancer Pig charts
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- Tom SandovalAmerican television personality
- Kristi YamaguchiAmerican figure skater
Other Gilded Pioneers
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- Martin BaturinaCroatian footballer
- Nico PazArgentine-Spanish footballer (born 2004)
- Alex FreemanAmerican soccer player
Famous people with Life Path 5
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Manuel’s cards
Computed from July 19, 1995. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Manuel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19938984 (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 Steffen Prößdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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 Manuel Akanji.
Quick answers about Manuel Akanji’s chart
- How old is Manuel Akanji?
- Manuel Akanji is 31 years old, born July 19, 1995 in Neftenbach, Switzerland.
- What zodiac sign is Manuel Akanji?
- Manuel Akanji is a Cancer: born July 19, 1995, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Manuel Akanji's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 19, 1995 birth.
- How tall is Manuel Akanji?
- Manuel Akanji is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Manuel Akanji's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Manuel Akanji's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Manuel Akanji's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Manuel Akanji's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Scorpio; 6 major aspects). Moon is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
