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Ang Lee

Ang Lee (born October 23, 1954, Chaojhou Township, Taiwan), aged 72, is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1954). Lee is best known for The Ice Storm, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Lust, Caution. Lee's honours include Academy Award for Best Director, Golden Lion and Golden Bear.

Ang Lee’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Ang Lee’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Visionary

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

What Ang’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

2

Soul Urge · closeness

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on A (1) and closes on G (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Ang’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Blush · Forest

The record

What sets Ang apart

Pelé (1940) and Paul Kagame (1957) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Ang, according to the stars

Core essence

Ang makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Ang is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Ang is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Ang needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Ang wants to be loved

Ang wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Ang even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Ang creates

How Ang makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Ang 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: Ang is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ang is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Ang goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Ang's birth date. Working below.

Where Ang sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Ang

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ang

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

PrivateExpressive
Ang

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ang

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

PracticalVisionary
Ang

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ang

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 Chaojhou Township on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Ang’s birth-night reference starScheatdeep red · PegasusScheat, in Pegasus. A deep red star, 76.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Scheat →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 24.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

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

The sky over Chaojhou Township that night

Computed for 22.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Chaojhou Township at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.7° above the horizon in Pegasus.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.

Chaojhou Township sits at 22.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 10% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.

How unusual Ang's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

T-square onto Sun · 2 planets at a critical degree · No Earth planets

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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Ang Lee in 15 seconds

Libra Sun

Charming. Still deciding.

Ang Lee's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 23, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Wood Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Ang Lee was born on October 23, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Ang Lee's birth date, October 23, 1954, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Ang’s chart

Ang’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.1° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.3° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.5° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.7° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 1.9° orbSun in Libra · 29°10′☉29°Moon in Virgo · 19°14′☽19°Mercury in Scorpio · 13°11′ · retrograde☿℞13°Venus in Scorpio · 29°56′♀29°Mars in Aquarius · 1°03′♂1°Jupiter in Cancer · 28°56′♃28°Saturn in Scorpio · 10°32′♄10°Uranus in Cancer · 27°39′♅27°Neptune in Libra · 25°55′♆25°Pluto in Leo · 26°28′♇26°

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

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Ang’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.5° to 0.6° orb

    Ang’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussextileMars0.8° to 1.4° orb

    Ang’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableSunsquareUranus1.0° to 2.0° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.0° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars1.7° to 2.1° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune1.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.8° to 2.4° orb

  • stableSunsextilePluto2.2° to 3.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.2° to 3.0° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 23°24′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 18°29′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 1°45′ (moves 0.51° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 23°06′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.3°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.5°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.6°

Ang’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    disposes Mars; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Ang’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Mars, Jupiter, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Mars, Jupiter, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Mars, Uranus, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneAn 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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°

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Ang’s cards

Computed from October 23, 1954. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ang’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q160726 (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 nicolas genin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ang Lee at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ang Lee.

Quick answers about Ang Lee’s chart

How old is Ang Lee?
Ang Lee is 72 years old, born October 23, 1954 in Chaojhou Township, Taiwan.
What zodiac sign is Ang Lee?
Ang Lee is a Libra: born October 23, 1954, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What is Ang Lee's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 23, 1954 birth.
What is Ang Lee's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Ang Lee's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ang Lee's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ang Lee's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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