Barry Lam
Barry Lam (born April 24, 1949, Shanghai, China), aged 77, is a Taiwanese businessman (born 1949).
Barry Lam’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Barry
Barry Lam’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Barry in the U.S.?
#1520
US rank in 2025
~182,036
Americans share it since 1883
1962
its peak year
The SSA recorded 4,607 American boys and 16 girls named Barry in 1949: 73rd among boys and 2,525th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Barry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
2
Soul Urge · closeness
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on B (2) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Barry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1949, 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 Barry apart
The schooling ran through National Taiwan University.
Barbra Streisand (1942) and Shirley MacLaine (1934) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- National Taiwan University
- Citizenship
- Taiwan
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
What the chart says
Barry, according to the stars
Core essence
Barry is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Barry is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Barry is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Barry needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Barry wants to be loved
Barry wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Barry is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Barry creates
How Barry makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Barry builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Barry is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Barry 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Barry gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Barry's birth date. Working below.
Where Barry sits
Six lines
Barry’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Barry Lam
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shanghai 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 Shanghai that night
Computed for 31.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Shanghai was Zosma, in Leo, 79.5° up.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Shanghai sits at 31.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −58.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Shanghai on any night.
The Moon, 13% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 29° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Shanghai, People's Republic of China
- Lives in
- Taipei
Wikidata records Taipei as Barry Lam's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Barry Lam: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Barry's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Taurus · No Water planets · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Barry Lam's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 24, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Barry Lam was born on April 24, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Barry Lam's birth date, April 24, 1949, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Barry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Barry Lam's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Barry Lam combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Barry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysquarePluto0.5° to 2.5° orb
Barry’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
Barry’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.7° to 2.0° orb
Barry’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssextileUranus1.7° to 2.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.8° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter2.1° to 3.0° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.4° to 4.2° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter5.2° to 5.9° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.5° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Barry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 8°09′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 14°18′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 8°22′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 3°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 0°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Sun 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.0°
- Eros square Venus 2.8°
Barry’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Barry’s chart
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.4°
More people like Barry
Born in People's Republic of China
- Harry TriguboffAustralian businessman
- Liu QiangdongChinese businessman
- Charles K. KaoHong Kong-British-American physicist
- Ding LeiChinese internet entrepreneur and billionaire
- Tenzin Gyatso14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibetans
- Zhang XiaolongChinese computer programmer, known for creating WeChat and Foxmail
More charts like Barry’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Betty ComdenAmerican librettist, songwriter, actress
- Carol BurnettAmerican actress, comedian and singer (born 1933)
- Pete SeegerAmerican folk singer
Born in Ox years
- Ashton DulinAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Michael Pittman Jr.American football wide receiver
- Kindle VildorAmerican football cornerback
Also born on April 24
- Barbra Streisand1942
- Shirley MacLaine1934
- Kelly Clarkson1982
- Josep Borrell1947
- Djimon Hounsou1964
- Jean-Paul Gaultier1952
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Bailey ZimmermanAmerican singer
- Baby ArielAmerican social media personality
- FaouziaMoroccan-Canadian musician, singer and songwriter
Other Taurus Ox charts
- Vincent du VigneaudAmerican biochemist
- William IngeAmerican playwright and novelist
- Carolyn ColeAmerican photojournalist (born 1961)
- Michael RamirezAmerican cartoonist
Other Evergreen Guardians
- Marshall Warren NirenbergAmerican biochemist and geneticist
- Kenichi FukuiJapanese chemist
- Charles Louis Alphonse LaveranFrench physician
- Willis LambAmerican physicist
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Ronnie RiversAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Tommy EichenbergAmerican football player
- Carter RunyonAmerican football player (born 2001)
From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Barry’s cards
Computed from April 24, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Barry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q8998330 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Barry Lam.
Quick answers about Barry Lam’s chart
- How old is Barry Lam?
- Barry Lam is 77 years old, born April 24, 1949 in Shanghai, China.
- What zodiac sign is Barry Lam?
- Barry Lam is a Taurus: born April 24, 1949, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Barry Lam's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 24, 1949 birth.
- What is Barry Lam's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Barry Lam's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Barry Lam's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Barry Lam's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
