Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Zidane (born June 23, 1972, Marseille, France, 03:00), aged 54, is a French footballer and coach. Zidane has played for Juventus FC, Real Madrid Club de Fútbol and France men's national association football team. Zidane's honours include Ballon d'Or, FIFA World Player of the Year and Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Zinedine Zidane’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Zinedine
Zinedine Zidane’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Zinedine in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~156
Americans share it since 2005
2006
its peak year
US records hold Zinedine from 2005 onward, though not for 1972 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2006 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Zinedine’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on Z (8) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Zinedine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, 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 Zinedine apart
Zinedine Zidane took the FIFA World Player of the Year in 1998, at 26.
University of Limoges shaped the training.
The family line: raised 4 children.
The same date carries Selma Blair and Louis Van Amstel. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- University of Limoges
- Awards
- FIFA World Player of the Year (1998), Ballon d'Or (1998) and L'Équipe Champion of Champions (1998)
- Sport
- association football
- Citizenship
- France
- Languages
- French, Italian and Spanish
- Wikipedia editions
- 146
What the chart says
Zinedine, according to the stars
Core essence
Zinedine feels the room before entering it. The core of Zinedine 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 Zinedine, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Zinedine feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Zinedine needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Zinedine wants to be loved
Zinedine wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Zinedine like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Zinedine creates
How Zinedine makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Zinedine creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Zinedine 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Zinedine is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Zinedine 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 Zinedine's birth date. Working below.
Where Zinedine sits
Six lines
Zinedine’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Zinedine Zidane
Three stars chosen from the real sky above 16th arrondissement of Marseille on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above 16th arrondissement of Marseille at 03:00, Zinedine Zidane’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over 16th arrondissement of Marseille that night
Computed for 43.36°N, at the documented birth time.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over 16th arrondissement of Marseille at the birth hour, 86.9° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 43.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from 16th arrondissement of Marseille at all: they sit past the −46.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 88% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.
What Zinedine's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 辰.
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 4/6
Sacral authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
59 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Pluto · Venus 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Zinedine Zidane's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time.
What Cancer means →Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Zinedine Zidane was born on June 23, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Zinedine Zidane's birth date, June 23, 1972, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Zinedine’s chart
- One of the ten planets sits in angular houses in Zinedine Zidane's timed chart: Moon in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Zinedine Zidane's timed chart is Moon trine Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Zinedine Zidane combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Zinedine’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
MoontrineMercuryapplying · 0.6° orb
Zinedine’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
SaturntrineUranusapplying · 1.3° orb
Zinedine’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
SunoppositionJupiterapplying · 2.0° orb
Zinedine’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 2.3° orb
MarssextilePlutoapplying · 2.9° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 3.8° orb
JupitersquarePlutoapplying · 4.3° orb
MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 5.5° orb
MoontrineMarsapplying · 6.0° orb
VenussquarePlutoseparating · 6.2° orb
MarstrineNeptuneapplying · 6.7° orb
MercurysquareUranusseparating · 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Zinedine’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironAries 17°03′ · House 12
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 0°56′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 11°55′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 2°48′ · House 7
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 13°22′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Eros square Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.1°
- Ceres square Ascendant 2.0°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.2°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.7°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.9°
Zinedine’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Zinedine’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Sun, Jupiter, PlutoAn 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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.4°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.4°
- Moon semi-square Jupiter 1.8°
Zinedine’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taurus | Venus in Gemini, house 2 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Cancer, house 3 | Venus, Saturn | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Scorpio, house 7 | Sun, Mercury, Mars | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Cancer, house 3 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Cancer, house 3 | Pluto | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Gemini, house 2 | Uranus | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 5 | Moon | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 9 | Neptune | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Gemini, house 2 | Jupiter | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 6 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 8 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Cancer, house 3 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Zinedine
2 other people here were born on June 23, 1972, 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 43.4°N, the sky above 16th arrondissement of Marseille stops at −46.6° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Zinedine’s cards
Computed from June 23, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Zinedine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1835 (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 Hadi Abyar, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Zinedine Zidane at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Zinedine Zidane.
Quick answers about Zinedine Zidane’s chart
- How old is Zinedine Zidane?
- Zinedine Zidane is 54 years old, born June 23, 1972 in Marseille, France.
- What zodiac sign is Zinedine Zidane?
- Zinedine Zidane is a Cancer: born June 23, 1972, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time.
- What is Zinedine Zidane's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 23, 1972 birth.
- What time was Zinedine Zidane born?
- 03:00 local time in Marseille, France, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Zinedine Zidane's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 03:00 birth time in Marseille, France (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Zinedine Zidane?
- Zinedine Zidane is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Zinedine Zidane's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Zinedine Zidane's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Zinedine Zidane's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 13°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Zinedine Zidane's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
