What zodiac sign was Bruce Lee?

Bruce Lee was a Sagittarius: born November 27, 1940, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.

What was Bruce Lee's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 27, 1940 birth.

What time was Bruce Lee born?

07:12 local time in San Francisco, California, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).

What was Bruce Lee's rising sign?

Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 07:12 birth time in San Francisco, California, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).

How tall was Bruce Lee?

Bruce Lee was 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.

What was Bruce Lee's Life Path number?

Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.

What was Bruce Lee's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Leo at 1°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.

Where was Bruce Lee's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 18°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was Bruce Lee's dominant planet?

Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 6 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee (born November 27, 1940, San Francisco, California, United States, 07:12; died 1973), was a Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor. Lee is best remembered for The Game of Death, Marlowe and The Big Boss. Lee's honours include California Hall of Fame and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Bruce Lee’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

Your match with Bruce

Bruce Lee’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Seeker

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

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

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

#536

US rank in 2025

~388,275

Americans share it since 1880

1956

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1940, Bruce came 55th among boys and 2,044th among girls, carried by 3,789 American boys and 16 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Bruce’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · direction and scale

Soul Urge · meaning

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on B (2) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.

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

Bruce’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 6

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Rose-gold · Silver

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 1940, 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 Bruce apart

What keeps Bruce Lee in print: Enter the Dragon, Way of the Dragon and The Big Boss.

Seattle Central College shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1950, at 10.

Cause of death is recorded as cerebral edema; the grave is at Lake View Cemetery.

Bruce Lee was born to Grace Ho and Lee Hoi-chuen, married Linda Lee Cadwell and raised 2 children.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Bruce Lee: American male martial artists, Accidental deaths in Hong Kong and Burials at Lake View Cemetery (Seattle).

Jimi Hendrix (1942) and Han Kang (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for: Enter the Dragon, Way of the Dragon and The Big Boss
Educated at: Seattle Central College
Awards: California Hall of Fame (2015)
Working from: 1950
Cause of death: cerebral edema
Buried at: Lake View Cemetery
Sport: martial arts
Citizenship: United States and British Hong Kong
Languages: Yue Chinese and English
Wikipedia editions: 166

What the chart says

Bruce, according to the stars

Core essence

Bruce is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Bruce is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Bruce 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 Bruce 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 Bruce wants to be loved

Bruce 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 Bruce even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Bruce creates

How Bruce 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. Bruce 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: Bruce is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Bruce 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Bruce runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Bruce's birth date. Working below.

Where Bruce sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network

Bruce

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

DeliberateSpontaneous

Bruce

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive

Bruce

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Bruce

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary

Bruce

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Bruce

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Bruce Lee

Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco Chinese Hospital on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Bruce’s birth-sky starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 76.2° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 23.8° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above San Francisco Chinese Hospital at 07:12, Bruce Lee’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over San Francisco Chinese Hospital that night

Computed for 37.80°N, at the documented birth time.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over San Francisco Chinese Hospital at the birth hour, 76.2° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.

From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −52.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from San Francisco Chinese Hospital on any night.

Sun -1° below the horizon, Moon up and 4% lit at waning crescent.

The name and the places

Born in: San Francisco Chinese Hospital, United States
Lived in: San Francisco · Seattle

Wikidata records San Francisco and Seattle as Bruce Lee's home, against San Francisco Chinese Hospital as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong in 1973.

Against San Francisco Chinese Hospital, Shared Places reads San Francisco as supportive for this chart: 60 of 100, 69th of 167 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Bangkok, Thailand, at 100.

Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.

What Bruce's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

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Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Wealth

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Human Design

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Emotional authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Pluto · No Air 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.

Score your own chart →

Bruce Lee at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Bruce Lee's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.

What Sagittarius means →

Metal Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 7

Asks the better question.

Bruce Lee's birth date, November 27, 1940, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Bruce’s chart

Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Bruce Lee's timed chart: Sun in the 1st house and Neptune in the 10th house.
The tightest major aspect in Bruce Lee's timed chart is Mars square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
Four planets, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
Bruce Lee combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.

Bruce’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.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.

Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

Tap one to light it on the wheel.

AscendantSagittarius

The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

MarssquarePlutoseparating · 0.3° orb
Bruce’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SuntrinePlutoseparating · 1.0° orb
Bruce’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoonoppositionSaturnseparating · 1.9° orb
Bruce’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
JupiterconjunctionSaturnseparating · 1.9° orb
VenussquarePlutoapplying · 2.9° orb
MarsoppositionJupiterapplying · 3.0° orb
VenusconjunctionMarsapplying · 3.2° orb
JupitersquarePlutoapplying · 3.3° orb
UranustrineNeptuneseparating · 3.7° orb
MoonconjunctionMercuryapplying · 3.9° orb
MoonoppositionJupiterseparating · 3.9° orb
MarsoppositionSaturnapplying · 4.9° orb
SaturnsquarePlutoapplying · 5.3° orb
MercuryoppositionSaturnseparating · 5.8° orb
VenusoppositionJupiterapplying · 6.2° orb
MoonconjunctionMarsseparating · 6.8° orb
MercuryoppositionJupiterseparating · 7.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

Fire2 of 10
Earth4 of 10
Air0 of 10
Water4 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal0 of 10
Fixed8 of 10
Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 1°19′ · House 9
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 22°48′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 28°49′ · House 2
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 22°36′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 18°50′ · House 5
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Chiron square Venus 0.0°
Ceres opposition Uranus 0.9°
Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.1°
Eros trine Neptune 1.4°
Eros square Venus 2.5°
Chiron conjunction Pluto 2.9°

Bruce’s dominant planets

1. ♃ Jupiter13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 6 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto12 pts
rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Bruce’s chart

Stellium in Scorpio · Moon, Mercury, Venus, 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 · Mars, Jupiter, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
T-square onto Pluto · Mars, Saturn, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
T-square onto Pluto · Venus, 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.

Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
Moon semi-square Neptune 1.0°
Uranus quintile Pluto 1.4°
Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.3°

Bruce’s houses

Bruce’s houses
House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Taurus, house 6	Sun	self, body, how you arrive
2	Capricorn	Saturn in Taurus, house 6	empty	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Aquarius	Uranus in Taurus, house 6	empty	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Pisces	Neptune in Virgo, house 10	empty	home, family, roots
5	Aries	Mars in Scorpio, house 12	empty	creativity, romance, play
6	Taurus	Venus in Scorpio, house 12	Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus	work, habits, health
7	Gemini	Mercury in Scorpio, house 12	empty	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Cancer	Moon in Scorpio, house 12	empty	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Leo	Sun in Sagittarius, house 1	Pluto	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Virgo	Mercury in Scorpio, house 12	Neptune	career, reputation, public life
11	Libra	Venus in Scorpio, house 12	empty	friends, community, the future
12	Scorpio	Pluto in Leo, house 9	Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

Bruce’s family here

One relative of Bruce Lee also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Bruce’s cards

Computed from November 27, 1940. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

Western zodiac

Chinese zodiac

Life Path

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Bruce’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16397 (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 National General Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Bruce Lee at Wikipedia, brucelee.com, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

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

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

Quick answers about Bruce Lee’s chart

What zodiac sign was Bruce Lee?: Bruce Lee was a Sagittarius: born November 27, 1940, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
What was Bruce Lee's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 27, 1940 birth.
What time was Bruce Lee born?: 07:12 local time in San Francisco, California, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Bruce Lee's rising sign?: Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 07:12 birth time in San Francisco, California, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall was Bruce Lee?: Bruce Lee was 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Bruce Lee's Life Path number?: Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Bruce Lee's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Leo at 1°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Bruce Lee's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 18°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Bruce Lee's dominant planet?: Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 6 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Your match with Bruce

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

What Bruce’s name adds up to

Bruce’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

What sets Bruce apart

Bruce, according to the stars

Core essence

The vibe

How Bruce wants to be loved

How Bruce creates

Instinct

Purpose

Triggers

Six lines

Dedicate a star to Bruce Lee

The sky over San Francisco Chinese Hospital that night

The name and the places

What Bruce's birth time unlocks

Bruce Lee at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Metal Dragon

Life Path 7

What stands out in Bruce’s chart

Bruce’s birth chart

Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

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

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Bruce’s dominant planets

Configurations in Bruce’s chart

Minor aspects

Bruce’s houses

Bruce’s family here

More people like Bruce

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