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Rafael Grossi

Rafael Grossi (born January 29, 1961, Almagro, Argentina), aged 65, is an Argentine diplomat. Grossi has held office as UN board member and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Grossi's honours include Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Order of Merit for Distinguished Services and Grand Cross of the Order of Saint-Charles.

Rafael Grossi’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Rafael Grossi’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Guardian

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

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

#218

US rank in 2025

~89,947

Americans share it since 1880

2006

its peak year

The SSA recorded 581 American boys and 11 girls named Rafael in 1961: 326th among boys and 4,177th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Rafael’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on R (9) 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

Rafael’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 3

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia

Crimson · Ivory · Silver

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 1960, 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 Rafael apart

The Outstanding Citizen of Buenos Aires came in 2023, when Rafael Grossi was 62.

Rafael Grossi was taught at Graduate Institute of International Studies and Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.

Wikipedia files Rafael Grossi under People associated with nuclear power, Directors general of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Permanent representatives of Argentina to the United Nations in Geneva.

Strive Masiyiwa and Sanjiv Goenka shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina and Instituto del Servicio Exterior de la Nación
Awards
Outstanding Citizen of Buenos Aires (2023)
Citizenship
Argentina
Languages
Spanish and English
Wikipedia editions
30

What the chart says

Rafael, according to the stars

Core essence

Rafael is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Rafael is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Rafael is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Rafael needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Rafael wants to be loved

Rafael wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Rafael, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Rafael creates

How Rafael makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Rafael creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Rafael 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Rafael is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Rafael 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 Rafael's birth date. Working below.

Where Rafael sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Rafael

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Rafael

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Rafael

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Rafael

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

PracticalVisionary
Rafael

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Rafael

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Rafael’s birth-night reference starNihalyellow · LepusNihal, in Lepus. A yellow star, 73.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Nihal →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 32.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Almagro that night

Computed for 34.60°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

Nihal stood nearest the zenith over Almagro at 9 p.m. that evening, 73.1° above the horizon in Lepus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.

From 34.6°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 11° down.

How unusual Rafael's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Uranus · 1 planet at a critical degree · Mars 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.

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Rafael Grossi at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Rafael Grossi's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 29, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Metal Rat

Quick, clever, never stuck.

Rafael Grossi was born on January 29, 1961, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 2

Holds the room together.

Rafael Grossi's birth date, January 29, 1961, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Rafael’s chart

Rafael’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.7° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.8° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.2° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.7° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 3.9° orbMoon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 4.6° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.9° orbSun in Aquarius · 9°29′☉9°Moon in Cancer · 16°09′☽16°Mercury in Aquarius · 25°01′☿25°Venus in Pisces · 26°26′♀26°Mars in Cancer · 0°21′ · retrograde♂℞0°Jupiter in Capricorn · 20°43′♃20°Saturn in Capricorn · 22°57′♄22°Uranus in Leo · 24°22′ · retrograde♅℞24°Neptune in Scorpio · 11°16′♆11°Pluto in Virgo · 7°31′ · retrograde♇℞7°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.0° to 1.5° orb

    Rafael’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb

    Rafael’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.2° to 2.3° orb

    Rafael’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn3.0° to 3.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars3.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMercurytrineMars4.5° to 6.2° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.9° to 12.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 2.7° to 14.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 4.9° to 15.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

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

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 0°33′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 12°44′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 1°48′ (moves 0.67° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 21°45′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mars 0.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.0°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.2°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 1.5°
  • Eros trine Mars 1.5°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 2.6°

Rafael’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☽ Moon3 pts

    in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Mars

Configurations in Rafael’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Uranus · Venus, Saturn, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 0.3°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.4°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.9°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 2.0°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 2.1°

Born the same day as Rafael

2 other people here were born on January 29, 1961, 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 34.6°S, Almagro keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong

Rafael’s cards

Computed from January 29, 1961. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Rafael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51107051 (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 IAEA Imagebank, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rafael Grossi.

Quick answers about Rafael Grossi’s chart

How old is Rafael Grossi?
Rafael Grossi is 65 years old, born January 29, 1961 in Almagro, Argentina.
What zodiac sign is Rafael Grossi?
Rafael Grossi is an Aquarius: born January 29, 1961, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Rafael Grossi's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 29, 1961 birth.
What is Rafael Grossi's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Rafael Grossi's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Rafael Grossi's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Rafael Grossi's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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