Cao Fei
Cao Fei (born January 1, 1978, Guangzhou, China), aged 48, is a Chinese sculptor and installation artist.
Cao Fei’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Cao
Cao Fei’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 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
What Cao’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on C (3) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Cao’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
The record
What sets Cao apart
Alicia Keys (1981) and Hailee Steinfeld (1996) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Cao, according to the stars
Core essence
Cao is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Cao is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Cao wants to be loved
Cao wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Cao you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Cao creates
How Cao makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Cao creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Cao is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Cao is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Cao fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Cao's birth date. Working below.
Where Cao sits
Six lines
Cao’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Cao Fei
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Guangzhou 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 Guangzhou that night
Computed for 23.13°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Guangzhou at 9 p.m. that evening: Botein of Aries, within 3.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
From 23.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon, 60% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.
How unusual Cao's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Mars retrograde · 2 planets at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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.
Score your own chart →Cao Fei at a glance
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Cao Fei's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 1, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Cao Fei was born on January 1, 1978, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Cao Fei's birth date, January 1, 1978, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Cao’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Cao Fei's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Cao Fei combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Cao’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Virgo or Libra 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Cao’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.3° to 0.4° orb
Cao’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.4° orb
Cao’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableMercurysextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn4.5° to 5.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.8° to 6.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.9° to 5.2° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.7° to 6.7° orb
stableMarssquareUranus6.2° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 1.3° to 14.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Cao’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 1°09′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 17°09′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 20°44′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 1°24′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 28°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.4°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.0°
Cao’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Cao’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Mars 1.4°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
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More charts like Cao’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Grace VanderWaalAmerican singer-songwriter
- Amit ElorAmerican freestyle wrestler
- Jaeden MartellAmerican actor
Born in Snake years
- Robert WardAmerican composer
- Zhou LongChinese-American composer
- Richard HowardAmerican poet and literary critic
Also born on January 1
- Alicia Keys1981
- Hailee Steinfeld1996
- Kendrick Lamar1987
- Rivelino1946
- Ludacris1977
- Chad Michael Murray1981
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Lana CondorVietnamese-American actress
- Kid CudiAmerican rapper, singer, record producer and actor
- Burna BoyNigerian singer and songwriter
Other Capricorn Snake charts
- Howard SternAmerican radio and television personality
- Lee Kun-hee4th and 6th Chairman of the Samsung Group
- Nancy SilvertonAmerican baker
- René AngélilCanadian singer and manager
Other Tidal Visionarys
- Cole ChristiansenAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Elijah WilkinsonAmerican football offensive tackle
- Luke AltmyerAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Derwin JamesAmerican football player (born 1996)
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Balthazar GettyAmerican actor and musician
- Ben HarperAmerican singer-songwriter and musician
- David HarbourAmerican actor (born 1975)
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Cao’s cards
Computed from January 1, 1978. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Cao’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1034078 (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 Kaethe17, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Cao Fei at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Cao Fei.
Quick answers about Cao Fei’s chart
- How old is Cao Fei?
- Cao Fei is 48 years old, born January 1, 1978 in Guangzhou, China.
- What zodiac sign is Cao Fei?
- Cao Fei is a Capricorn: born January 1, 1978, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Cao Fei's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 1, 1978 birth.
- What is Cao Fei's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Cao Fei's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Cao Fei's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Cao Fei's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
