Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal (born June 3, 1986, Manacor, Spain, 18:20), aged 40, is a Spanish tennis player. Nadal has played for Spain Davis Cup team. Nadal's honours include Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year, Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year and Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year.
Rafael Nadal’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Rafael
Rafael Nadal’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, 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
Of the names registered in 1986, Rafael came 203rd among boys and 6,984th among girls, carried by 1,211 American boys and 10 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rafael’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
9
Soul Urge · meaning
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1986, 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
Rafael Nadal took the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year in 2006, at 20.
The working life starts in 2001, at 15.
Rafael Nadal was born to Aina María Parera and Sebastián Nadal, married Maria Francisca Perello and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Rafael Nadal: Olympic medalists for Spain in tennis, Spanish male tennis players and Sportspeople from Manacor.
The same date carries Al Horford. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Awards
- Time 100 (2022), Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year (2006) and Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year (2011)
- Nominated for
- Best Male Tennis Player ESPY Award and Best Male Athlete ESPY Award
- Working from
- 2001
- Sport
- tennis
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Languages
- Spanish, English and Catalan
- Wikipedia editions
- 154
What the chart says
Rafael, according to the stars
Core essence
Rafael 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. Rafael needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Rafael 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 Rafael needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Rafael wants to be loved
Rafael wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Rafael gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Rafael creates
How Rafael makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Rafael creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Rafael is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Rafael is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Rafael does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Read from the sky above Manacor at 18:20, Rafael Nadal’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Manacor that night
Computed for 39.57°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Manacor at the birth hour: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 8.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
From 39.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 13% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -30° down.
What Rafael's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Charmer 貪狼 in 申
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Outer world
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4
Emotional authority · Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 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.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
Rafael Nadal's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time.
What Gemini means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Rafael Nadal was born on June 3, 1986, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Rafael Nadal's birth date, June 3, 1986, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Rafael’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Rafael Nadal's timed chart: Moon in the 7th house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Rafael Nadal's timed chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Rafael Nadal combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Rafael’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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.0° orb
Rafael’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupitersquareUranusapplying · 0.2° orb
Rafael’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarssextileJupiterapplying · 2.4° orb
Rafael’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonsextileMercuryseparating · 4.0° orb
MoontrineNeptuneapplying · 4.7° orb
MoonoppositionPlutoapplying · 4.7° orb
VenustrineJupiterapplying · 4.8° orb
MercuryoppositionUranusseparating · 5.6° orb
MercurysquareJupiterseparating · 5.8° orb
SunoppositionSaturnseparating · 6.9° orb
VenusoppositionMarsapplying · 7.3° orb
SunoppositionUranusapplying · 7.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Rafael’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironGemini 14°58′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 9°36′ · House 11
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 24°02′ · House 4
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 1°04′ · House 8
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°49′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Ascendant 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 2.0°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 2.2°
- Eros trine Mercury 2.3°
Rafael’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; in its own sign, Scorpio; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Moon; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Rafael’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Uranus, 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.
- Moon biquintile Saturn 0.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.9°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
Rafael’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scorpio | Pluto in Scorpio, house 1 | Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Pisces, house 5 | Saturn, Uranus | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Capricorn | Saturn in Sagittarius, house 2 | Mars, Neptune | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aquarius | Uranus in Sagittarius, house 2 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Pisces | Neptune in Capricorn, house 3 | Jupiter | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 3 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 9 | Moon | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Gemini | Mercury in Gemini, house 8 | Sun, Mercury | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Cancer | Moon in Taurus, house 7 | Venus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Leo | Sun in Gemini, house 8 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Virgo | Mercury in Gemini, house 8 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 9 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Rafael
Al Horford was born on June 3, 1986 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 39.6°N, the sky above Manacor stops at −50.4° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Rafael’s cards
Computed from June 3, 1986. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rafael’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q10132 (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 Barcex, 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 Rafael Nadal.
Quick answers about Rafael Nadal’s chart
- How old is Rafael Nadal?
- Rafael Nadal is 40 years old, born June 3, 1986 in Manacor, Spain.
- What zodiac sign is Rafael Nadal?
- Rafael Nadal is a Gemini: born June 3, 1986, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time.
- What is Rafael Nadal's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 3, 1986 birth.
- What time was Rafael Nadal born?
- 18:20 local time in Manacor, Spain, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Rafael Nadal's rising sign?
- Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 18:20 birth time in Manacor, Spain (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Rafael Nadal?
- Rafael Nadal is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Rafael Nadal's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Rafael Nadal's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 14°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Rafael Nadal's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 10°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Rafael Nadal's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
