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Raf Simons

Raf Simons (born January 12, 1968, Neerpelt, Belgium), aged 58, is a Belgian fashion designer.

Raf Simons’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Raf Simons’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.

Raf’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Raf, according to the stars

Core essence

Raf is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Raf is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Raf processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Raf needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Raf wants to be loved

Raf wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Raf and watch them fall for you again.

How Raf creates

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

Purpose

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

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Raf slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Raf's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Raf sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Raf

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Raf

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

PrivateExpressive
Raf

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Raf

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

PracticalVisionary
Raf

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Raf

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Raf Simons

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

Raf’s birth-night reference starMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 85.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirfak →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 74.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Raf Simons in 15 seconds

Capricorn Sun

Plays the long game. Wins it.

Raf Simons's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 12, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.

Fire Goat

Gentle hands, strong opinions.

Raf Simons was born on January 12, 1968, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Raf Simons's birth date, January 12, 1968, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Raf’s chart

Raf’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Raf Simons, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.1° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.5° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 1.5° orbMars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.7° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.2° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.6° orbSun in Capricorn · 21°18′☉21°Moon in Gemini · 14°07′☽14°Mercury in Aquarius · 0°15′☿0°Venus in Sagittarius · 12°39′♀12°Mars in Pisces · 2°23′♂2°Jupiter in Virgo · 5°08′ · retrograde♃℞5°Saturn in Aries · 6°41′♄6°Uranus in Virgo · 29°11′ · retrograde♅℞29°Neptune in Scorpio · 25°57′♆25°Pluto in Virgo · 22°47′ · retrograde♇℞22°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 7.0° orb

    Raf’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus0.2° to 1.9° orb

    Raf’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSuntrinePluto1.0° to 2.0° orb

    Raf’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb

    Raf’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb

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

  • stableUranussextileNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb

    Raf’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn5.4° to 6.5° orb

    Raf’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune6.1° to 6.8° orb

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

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto6.4° orb

    Raf’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus7.5° orb

    Raf’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.4° to 13.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 2.5° to 14.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

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

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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 25°53′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Raf absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 28°15′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Raf is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 28°01′ (moves 0.70° over the day)

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

    Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Raf is read as slow to start and exact once started.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 11°43′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Raf is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 12°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Raf is read as immovable on those points.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 0.9°
  • Eros conjunction Uranus 1.2°
  • Ceres square Mercury 2.0°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 2.1°
  • Eros trine Mercury 2.2°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Raf’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Raf is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Raf’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.2°
  • Venus quintile Uranus 1.5°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.6°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Raf Simons, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Raf’s cards

Every card is computed from January 12, 1968, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Strategist

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Raf Simons, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Raf’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1347583, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by Orgito, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Raf Simons at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Raf Simons.

Quick answers about Raf Simons’s chart

How old is Raf Simons?
Raf Simons is 58 years old, born January 12, 1968 in Neerpelt, Belgium.
What zodiac sign is Raf Simons?
Raf Simons is a Capricorn: born January 12, 1968, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat.
What is Raf Simons's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 12, 1968 birth.
What time was Raf Simons born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Raf Simons's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 12, 1968 birth date.
What is Raf Simons's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 12, 1968 birth date.
Where is Raf Simons's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Raf Simons's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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