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Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic (born May 22, 1987, Belgrade, Serbia, 23:25), aged 39, is a Serbian tennis player. Djokovic has played for Serbia Davis Cup team. Djokovic's honours include Order of the Republika Srpska, Order of St. Sava and Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year.

Novak Djokovic’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Novak Djokovic’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Seeker

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

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

#3730

US rank in 2025

~384

Americans share it since 2008

2023

its peak year

Novak is in US records from 2008, but 1987 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2023.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Novak’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

1

Soul Urge · independence

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on N (5) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 6: craft against care.

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

Novak’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Ivory · Lilac · 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 1987, 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 Novak apart

Naomi Campbell (1970) and Morrissey (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Sport
tennis
Citizenship
Serbia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Languages
French, German and Italian

What the chart says

Novak, according to the stars

Core essence

Novak 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. Novak needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Novak runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Novak needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Novak wants to be loved

Novak wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Novak is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Novak creates

How Novak makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Novak 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: Novak 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Novak is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Novak does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Novak's birth date. Working below.

Where Novak sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Novak

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Novak

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

PrivateExpressive
Novak

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Novak

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

PracticalVisionary
Novak

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Novak

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

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

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

Novak’s birth-sky starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 78.9° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 15.1° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

Read from the sky above Belgrade at 23:25, Novak Djokovic’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Belgrade that night

Computed for 44.82°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Belgrade at the birth hour: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 11.1° of the exact zenith.

Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

At 44.8°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 −45.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 22% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Belgrade, Serbia
Lives in
Monte Carlo

Wikidata records Monte Carlo as Novak Djokovic's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Novak's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Peacemaker 天同 in 巳

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Self

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4

Sacral authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Moon

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.

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Novak Djokovic at a glance

Gemini Sun

Quick, curious, already elsewhere.

Novak Djokovic's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time.

What Gemini means →

Fire Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Novak Djokovic was born on May 22, 1987, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Novak Djokovic's birth date, May 22, 1987, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Novak’s chart

Novak’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.8° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.9° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 1° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.4° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 2° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun in Gemini · 1°15′ · house 6☉1°Moon in Aries · 5°32′ · house 4☽5°Mercury in Gemini · 18°12′ · house 6☿18°Venus in Taurus · 6°32′ · house 5♀6°Mars in Cancer · 1°09′ · house 7♂1°Jupiter in Aries · 18°57′ · house 4♃18°Saturn in Sagittarius · 19°07′ · house 12 · retrograde♄℞19°Uranus in Sagittarius · 25°42′ · house 12 · retrograde♅℞25°Neptune in Capricorn · 7°32′ · house 1 · retrograde♆℞7°Pluto in Scorpio · 7°57′ · house 11 · retrograde♇℞7°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCap 16°02′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCnc 16°02′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCSco 14°08′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICTau 14°08′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCapricorn
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • JupitertrineSaturnapplying · 0.2° orb

    Novak’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.4° orb

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

  • MercurysextileJupiterapplying · 0.8° orb

    Novak’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MercuryoppositionSaturnapplying · 0.9° orb

  • VenustrineNeptuneapplying · 1.0° orb

  • VenusoppositionPlutoapplying · 1.4° orb

  • MoonsquareNeptuneapplying · 2.0° orb

  • SunsextileMoonseparating · 4.3° orb

  • MoonsquareMarsseparating · 4.4° orb

  • MarsoppositionUranusseparating · 5.5° orb

  • MarsoppositionNeptuneapplying · 6.4° orb

  • SaturnconjunctionUranusseparating · 6.6° orb

  • JupitertrineUranusapplying · 6.7° orb

  • MarstrinePlutoapplying · 6.8° orb

  • MercuryoppositionUranusapplying · 7.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 20°17′ · House 6

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 4°07′ · House 1

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 3°35′ · House 7

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 8°17′ · House 7

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°10′ · House 7

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Pluto 0.3°
  • Hygiea opposition Neptune 0.7°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.2°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.3°
  • Ceres square Moon 1.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 1.7°
  • Eros square Moon 2.0°
  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 2.1°
  • Ceres trine Venus 2.4°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 2.4°
  • Hygiea square Moon 2.7°
  • Ceres opposition Mars 3.0°
  • Eros sextile Venus 3.0°

Novak’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars10 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Moon, Jupiter; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn7 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Novak’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Moon · Mars, Neptune, MoonAn 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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 0.2°
  • Sun biquintile Neptune 0.3°
  • Moon quintile Mercury 0.7°
  • Moon semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Moon quincunx Pluto 2.4°

Novak’s houses

Novak’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CapricornSaturn in Sagittarius, house 12Neptuneself, body, how you arrive
2AquariusUranus in Sagittarius, house 12emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3PiscesNeptune in Capricorn, house 1emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AriesMars in Cancer, house 7Moon, Jupiterhome, family, roots
5TaurusVenus in Taurus, house 5Venuscreativity, romance, play
6GeminiMercury in Gemini, house 6Sun, Mercurywork, habits, health
7CancerMoon in Aries, house 4Marspartnership, marriage, open rivals
8LeoSun in Gemini, house 6emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9VirgoMercury in Gemini, house 6emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10LibraVenus in Taurus, house 5emptycareer, reputation, public life
11ScorpioPluto in Scorpio, house 11Plutofriends, community, the future
12SagittariusJupiter in Aries, house 4Saturn, Uranusthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Novak’s cards

Computed from May 22, 1987. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Novak’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5812 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Andymiah, 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 Novak Djokovic.

Quick answers about Novak Djokovic’s chart

How old is Novak Djokovic?
Novak Djokovic is 39 years old, born May 22, 1987 in Belgrade, Serbia.
What zodiac sign is Novak Djokovic?
Novak Djokovic is a Gemini: born May 22, 1987, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time.
What is Novak Djokovic's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 22, 1987 birth.
What time was Novak Djokovic born?
23:25 local time in Belgrade, Serbia, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Novak Djokovic's rising sign?
Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 23:25 birth time in Belgrade, Serbia (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Novak Djokovic?
Novak Djokovic is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Novak Djokovic's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Novak Djokovic's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 20°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Novak Djokovic's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 20°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Novak Djokovic's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Moon, Jupiter; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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