Zinedine Zidane birth chart with time of birth

Birth data

Zinedine Zidane was born on June 23, 1972, in Marseille. The Sun in his chart stands at the start of Cancer and forms a stellium in that sign with Mercury and Mars, while the Ascendant lies right on the border between Taurus and Gemini.

What is known and what is not

Several independent sources give the date and place: the player record on the French Football Federation (FFF) website, Wikidata, Astro-Databank and Astrotheme. Wikidata narrows the place to the 16th arrondissement of Marseille, but no source names a maternity hospital, so the coordinates are those of the city centre. For the 16th arrondissement the angles would move by less than half a degree.

Both astrological databases take the 3:00 a.m. time from the same source: the data collector Didier Geslain worked from the birth act, and Astro-Databank gives the act number, 353. No copy of the document has been published, so the Rodden rating is AA*, a birth record held by a data collector. We found no other version of the time.

We cast the chart for 3:00 Central European Time (UTC+1). France did not observe summer time between 1946 and 1976, so standard time was in force in June 1972.

An Ascendant on the Taurus-Gemini border

The Ascendant is at 28°54′ Taurus, a little over a degree from Gemini. Had Zidane been born a few minutes later, Gemini would already have been rising. The time on the act gives Taurus, but any reading built on the sign of the Ascendant here should be made with care.

The 1st house itself is full of Gemini: a retrograde Venus at 23°11′ Gemini, just 4′ before the cusp of the 2nd house, and Saturn at 12°52′ Gemini both stand in it. Saturn trines Uranus at 14°11′ Libra in the 6th house, orb 1°18′, and both planets are in air signs. Tradition links Gemini with mobility and quick reactions, Saturn with discipline and repetition, and their trine to Uranus with the ability to combine drilled technique with an unexpected decision.

Two stars sit on the horizon axis. The Ascendant falls 0°41′ from Alcyone of the Pleiades. Opposite, on the Descendant, only 0°12′ away, stands Toliman, also known as Alpha Centauri.

A T-square of the Sun, Jupiter and Pluto

The Sun at 1°42′ Cancer in the 2nd house opposes a retrograde Jupiter at 3°40′ Capricorn in the 8th, orb 1°58′. Both square Pluto at 29°21′ Virgo in the 5th house: the Sun squares Pluto with an orb of 2°20′, and Jupiter squares Pluto with an orb of 4°18′. Together they form a T-square with Pluto at the apex.

The squares cross a sign boundary. Pluto is on the last degree of Virgo and the Sun at the start of Cancer, so by degree this is a square and by sign a sextile. The Sun and Jupiter are in the cardinal signs Cancer and Capricorn, Pluto in mutable Virgo, so this is not a classic cardinal cross.

Tradition reads a Sun-Jupiter opposition as wide reach and a need for a large field of action, and Pluto at the apex as the point where the tension finds its outlet: focus, control and a wish to see things through. The 5th house, where Pluto stands, is linked with play, creativity and competition.

A Cancer stellium and the nodal axis

The Sun, Mercury at 20°59′ Cancer and Mars at 26°27′ Cancer form a stellium. The Sun is in the 2nd house, Mercury and Mars in the 3rd. Tradition places Mars in Cancer in its fall: its energy works less directly, through protecting what is one's own and reacting to circumstances.

Mars opposes the North Node at 26°13′ Capricorn, orb 0°13′, the most exact aspect in the whole chart. Astrologers read the nodal axis as a direction of growth, and so close a contact puts Mars in the foreground.

The tightest major aspect between planets is the trine from the Moon at 20°25′ Scorpio in the 6th house to Mercury, orb 0°33′. Both are in water signs, almost on the same degree. Tradition links a trine with easy cooperation, and a Scorpio Moon with an intensity of feeling that is rarely shown on the surface.

Events often compared with the chart

• August 17, 1994: first cap for France, a 2-2 draw with the Czech Republic.
• July 12, 1998: two headers in the World Cup final, France beat Brazil 3-0.
• May 15, 2002: his volley in the Champions League final in Glasgow wins it for Real Madrid against Bayer Leverkusen.
• July 10, 2006: named winner of the adidas Golden Ball as the best player of the 2006 World Cup, the day after his final match.
• January 4, 2016: appointed Real Madrid head coach, replacing Rafael Benítez.
• May 31, 2018: stands down as Real Madrid coach five days after a third successive Champions League title.
• July 28, 2026: the FFF appoints him head coach of France.

These dates are given as starting points for your own work with transits. We do not make predictions about the health, court cases or future careers of living people.

Planet positions

Placidus houses. Calculation: Swiss Ephemeris core-2026.11.07.

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Aspect patterns and fixed stars

Patterns are found from the aspects in the table above, stars by a conjunction within 1°.

• T-square: Jupiter and Sun, apex Pluto
• Stellium: Sun, Mercury and Mars in Cancer
• Toliman: Descendant, orb 0°12′
• Alcyone: Ascendant, orb 0°41′

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