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Virgil van Dijk

Virgil van Dijk (born July 8, 1991, Breda, Netherlands), aged 35, is a Dutch footballer. Dijk has played for Liverpool F.C.. Dijk's honours include UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award.

Virgil van Dijk’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Virgil van Dijk’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Strategist

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#1417

US rank in 2025

~73,453

Americans share it since 1880

1921

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1991, Virgil came 861st, carried by 149 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Virgil’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

1

Soul Urge · independence

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on V (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

Virgil’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia

Sky blue · Pearl · Silver

The record

What sets Virgil apart

Virgil van Dijk took the UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award in 2019, at 28.

The working life starts in 2011, at 20.

John D. Rockefeller (1839) and Son Heung-min (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award (2019)
Working from
2011
Wikipedia editions
74

What the chart says

Virgil, according to the stars

Core essence

Virgil feels the room before entering it. The core of Virgil is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Virgil, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

How Virgil wants to be loved

Virgil 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 Virgil openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Virgil creates

How Virgil makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Virgil creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

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

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Virgil is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

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

Where Virgil sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Virgil

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Virgil

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

PrivateExpressive
Virgil

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Virgil

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

PracticalVisionary
Virgil

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Virgil

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 Virgil van Dijk

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

Computed for 51.59°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Breda at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 51.6°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Breda at all: they sit past the −38.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 13% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -7° down.

How unusual Virgil's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

4-planet stellium in Leo · A leaning bowl

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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The quick version

Cancer Sun

Moody, and loyal past reason.

Virgil van Dijk's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 8, 1991, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Metal Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Virgil van Dijk was born on July 8, 1991, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Virgil van Dijk's birth date, July 8, 1991, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Virgil’s chart

Virgil’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Venus · Square, 0.2° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.4° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.8° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.9° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 2.5° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 2.7° orbSun in Cancer · 15°46′☉15°Moon in Taurus · 28°22′☽28°Mercury in Leo · 7°01′☿7°Venus in Leo · 28°12′♀28°Mars in Leo · 25°39′♂25°Jupiter in Leo · 15°51′♃15°Saturn in Aquarius · 4°51′ · retrograde♄℞4°Uranus in Capricorn · 11°40′ · retrograde♅℞11°Neptune in Capricorn · 15°22′ · retrograde♆℞15°Pluto in Scorpio · 17°41′ · retrograde♇℞17°

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

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Virgil’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.3° to 3.0° orb

    Virgil’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableSuntrinePluto1.4° to 2.4° orb

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

  • stableJupitersquarePluto1.7° to 1.9° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars2.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSunoppositionUranus3.6° to 4.6° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune3.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 2.1° to 15.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable0 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 28°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 23°55′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 28°04′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 18°08′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 8°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Venus 0.1°
  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 0.4°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 1.7°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 2.3°
  • Eros square Mars 2.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 2.4°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 2.8°

Virgil’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon4 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun

Configurations in Virgil’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Mercury, Venus, Mars, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.5°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°

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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan

Virgil’s cards

Computed from July 8, 1991. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Virgil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q133903 (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 Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0 at, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Virgil van Dijk at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Virgil van Dijk.

Quick answers about Virgil van Dijk’s chart

How old is Virgil van Dijk?
Virgil van Dijk is 35 years old, born July 8, 1991 in Breda, Netherlands.
What zodiac sign is Virgil van Dijk?
Virgil van Dijk is a Cancer: born July 8, 1991, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is Virgil van Dijk's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 8, 1991 birth.
How tall is Virgil van Dijk?
Virgil van Dijk is 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Virgil van Dijk's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Virgil van Dijk's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Virgil van Dijk's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Virgil van Dijk's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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