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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon.

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 from the November 27, 1940 birth date.

What was Bruce Lee's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Leo at 1°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 27, 1940 birth time.

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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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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

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Bruce’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Bruce sits

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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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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 →

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Bruce Lee at a glance

Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Bruce Lee's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

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.

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Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

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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
Bruce’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
VenussquarePlutoapplying · 2.9° orb
Bruce’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MarsoppositionJupiterapplying · 3.0° orb
Bruce’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
VenusconjunctionMarsapplying · 3.2° orb
Bruce’s affections and drive act as one.
JupitersquarePlutoapplying · 3.3° orb
Bruce’s growth grinds against their depths.
UranustrineNeptuneseparating · 3.7° orb
Bruce’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoonconjunctionMercuryapplying · 3.9° orb
Bruce’s feelings and mind act as one.
MoonoppositionJupiterseparating · 3.9° orb
Bruce’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
MarsoppositionSaturnapplying · 4.9° orb
Bruce’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
SaturnsquarePlutoapplying · 5.3° orb
Bruce’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MercuryoppositionSaturnseparating · 5.8° orb
Bruce’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
VenusoppositionJupiterapplying · 6.2° orb
Bruce’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
MoonconjunctionMarsseparating · 6.8° orb
Bruce’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MercuryoppositionJupiterseparating · 7.7° orb
Bruce’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s.

⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 1°19′ · House 9
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Bruce performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresScorpio 22°48′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Bruce is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCapricorn 28°49′ · House 2
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Bruce is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaPisces 22°36′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Bruce needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 18°50′ · House 5
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Bruce carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

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°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Bruce’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

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

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Bruce is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

How the score is built

Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Bruce’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated.

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

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

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

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Bruce’s cards

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The Evergreen Seeker

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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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 data comes from

Bruce’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16397, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon.
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 from the November 27, 1940 birth date.
What was Bruce Lee's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Leo at 1°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 27, 1940 birth time.
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.

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Bruce, according to the stars

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Bruce Lee at a glance

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What stands out in Bruce’s chart

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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

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