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Nico Elvedi

Nico Elvedi (born September 30, 1996, Zurich, Switzerland), aged 30, is a Swiss footballer. Elvedi has played for Borussia Mönchengladbach, Switzerland men's national football team and FC Zürich.

Nico Elvedi’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Nico Elvedi’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Strategist

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

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

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

#174

US rank in 2025

~22,322

Americans share it since 1960

2025

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1996, Nico came 872nd, carried by 158 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Nico’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

7

Soul Urge · understanding

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on N (5) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Nico’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Blush · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, 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 Nico apart

The working life starts in 2013, at 17.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Nico Elvedi: Swiss expatriate sportspeople in England, Footballers from Zurich and FC Zürich players.

The same date carries Alexander Nübel. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Working from
2013
Sport
association football
Citizenship
Switzerland
Languages
German
Wikipedia editions
44

What the chart says

Nico, according to the stars

Core essence

Nico makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Nico 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, Nico is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Nico needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Nico wants to be loved

Nico wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Nico openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Nico creates

How Nico makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Nico creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Nico is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Nico 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 Nico leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Nico 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 Nico's birth date. Working below.

Where Nico sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Nico

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Nico

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

PrivateExpressive
Nico

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Nico

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Nico

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Nico

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Nico Elvedi

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Zurich 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 Zurich that night

Computed for 47.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Zurich at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.7° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 47.4°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −42.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Zurich on any night.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 84% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.

How unusual Nico's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet · No Water 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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Nico Elvedi in 15 seconds

Libra Sun

Beauty matters. So does balance.

Nico Elvedi's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 30, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Fire Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Nico Elvedi was born on September 30, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Nico Elvedi's birth date, September 30, 1996, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Nico’s chart

Nico’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Mercury · Trine, 0° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.4° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.6° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3° orbSun faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.8° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.8° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.9° orbSun in Libra · 7°31′☉7°Moon in Taurus · 20°08′☽20°Mercury in Virgo · 20°08′☿20°Venus in Leo · 25°43′♀25°Mars in Leo · 12°40′♂12°Jupiter in Capricorn · 8°56′♃8°Saturn in Aries · 3°41′ · retrograde♄℞3°Uranus in Aquarius · 0°41′ · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Capricorn · 24°59′ · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Sagittarius · 1°02′♇1°

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

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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

  • stableMoontrineMercury0.0° to 6.4° orb

    Nico’s feelings flow straight into their mind.

  • stableUranussextilePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareJupiter1.0° to 1.9° orb

    Nico’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus3.0° orb

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn3.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune4.5° to 5.1° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto4.8° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn5.2° to 5.3° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune5.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 18°26′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 14°58′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 21°38′ (moves 0.65° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 19°59′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 10°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.7°
  • Ceres trine Mars 2.3°

Nico’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Nico’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Saturn, 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 0.7°
  • Mercury quintile Pluto 1.1°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°

Born the same day as Nico

Alexander Nübel was born on September 30, 1996 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Zurich, at 47.4°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.

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Nico’s cards

Computed from September 30, 1996. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Strategist

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Nico’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q18637339 (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 Press Service of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Nico Elvedi at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nico Elvedi.

Quick answers about Nico Elvedi’s chart

How old is Nico Elvedi?
Nico Elvedi is 30 years old, born September 30, 1996 in Zurich, Switzerland.
What zodiac sign is Nico Elvedi?
Nico Elvedi is a Libra: born September 30, 1996, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Nico Elvedi's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 30, 1996 birth.
How tall is Nico Elvedi?
Nico Elvedi is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Nico Elvedi's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Nico Elvedi's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Nico Elvedi's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Nico Elvedi's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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