Matthijs de Ligt
Matthijs de Ligt (born August 12, 1999, Leiderdorp, Netherlands), aged 27, is a Dutch footballer (born 1999). Ligt has played for Manchester United F.C.. Ligt's honours include Kopa Trophy and Talent of the year.
Matthijs de Ligt’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Matthijs
Matthijs de Ligt’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
What Matthijs’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on M (4) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 2: drive against tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Matthijs’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1999, 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 Matthijs apart
Matthijs de Ligt took the Talent of the year in 2018, at 19.
The working life starts in 2016, at 17.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Matthijs de Ligt: FC Abcoude players, Footballers from Leiderdorp and Golden Boy winners.
The same date carries Dream and Rodrigo Zalazar. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Awards
- Talent of the year (2018)
- Working from
- 2016
- Sport
- association football
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Languages
- Dutch
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
What the chart says
Matthijs, according to the stars
Core essence
Matthijs is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Matthijs 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.
How Matthijs wants to be loved
Matthijs wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Matthijs and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Matthijs creates
How Matthijs makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Matthijs creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Matthijs is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Matthijs 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Matthijs runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Matthijs's birth date. Working below.
Where Matthijs sits
Six lines
Matthijs’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Matthijs de Ligt
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Leiderdorp 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 Leiderdorp that night
Computed for 52.16°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Leiderdorp at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.5° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
Leiderdorp sits at 52.2°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −37.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Leiderdorp on any night.
Sun -1° below the horizon, Moon up and 2% lit at new moon.
How unusual Matthijs's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · Venus retrograde · 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Matthijs de Ligt's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 12, 1999, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitQuiet luck follows.
Matthijs de Ligt was born on August 12, 1999, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Matthijs de Ligt's birth date, August 12, 1999, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Matthijs’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Matthijs de Ligt's date-only chart is Mars opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Venus, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Matthijs de Ligt combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Matthijs’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 7.3° orb
Matthijs’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.2° to 0.7° orb
Matthijs’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune1.4° to 2.1° orb
Matthijs’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableSunsquareMars1.7° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn1.9° to 2.8° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter2.8° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.6° to 4.3° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus4.1° to 5.1° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.8° to 6.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Matthijs’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What these five are read as, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 27°46′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 9°29′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 22°20′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 20°38′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 7°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 0.2°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.7°
Matthijs’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Matthijs’s chart
Grand cross · Mars, Saturn, Sun, UranusTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
Born the same day as Matthijs
2 other people here were born on August 12, 1999, 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. At 52.2°N, Leiderdorp keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Matthijs
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- Brahim Díaz1999
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- Keisuke Osako1999
- Emiliano Martínez1999
- Alexis Saelemaekers1999
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Born in Netherlands
- Noa LangDutch association football player (born 1999)
- Malevy LeonsDutch basketball player (born 1999)
- Cody GakpoDutch association football player (born 1999)
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- Justin KluivertDutch association football player (born 1999)
- Mats WiefferDutch association football player (born 1999)
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on August 12
- Erwin Schrödinger1887
- George Soros1930
- Cara Delevingne1992
- LaKeith Stanfield1991
- Dream1999
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Other Radiant Guardians
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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Matthijs’s cards
Computed from August 12, 1999. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Matthijs’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q26259982 (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 ОЛЕГ БАТРАК, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Matthijs de Ligt at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Matthijs de Ligt.
Quick answers about Matthijs de Ligt’s chart
- How old is Matthijs de Ligt?
- Matthijs de Ligt is 27 years old, born August 12, 1999 in Leiderdorp, Netherlands.
- What zodiac sign is Matthijs de Ligt?
- Matthijs de Ligt is a Leo: born August 12, 1999, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Matthijs de Ligt's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 12, 1999 birth.
- How tall is Matthijs de Ligt?
- Matthijs de Ligt is 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Matthijs de Ligt's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Matthijs de Ligt's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Matthijs de Ligt's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Matthijs de Ligt's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
