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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Snake, with 
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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.
Cao’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Cao sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Cao Fei, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Cao’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineSaturn4.5° to 5.8° orb
Cao’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.8° to 6.2° orb
Cao’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.9° to 5.2° orb
Cao’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquarePluto5.7° to 6.7° orb
Cao’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareUranus6.2° to 6.5° orb
Cao’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 1°09′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Cao building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 17°09′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Cao is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAquarius 20°44′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Cao is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 1°24′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Cao is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 28°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Cao that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Cao’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Cao is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Cao’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Cao Fei, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Cao’s cards
Every card is computed from January 1, 1978, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Cao Fei, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Cao’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1034078, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Kaethe17, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Cao Fei at Wikipedia.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
- 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 time was Cao Fei born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Cao Fei's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the January 1, 1978 birth date.
- What is Cao Fei's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 1, 1978 birth date.
- 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.
