Chloé Zhao
Chloé Zhao (born March 31, 1982, Beijing, China), aged 44, is a Chinese filmmaker (born 1982). Zhao is best known for Nomadland, Songs My Brothers Taught Me and The Rider. Zhao's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Direction, Academy Award for Best Picture and Academy Award for Best Director.
Chloé Zhao’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Dog, with 
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Chloé Zhao’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.
Chloé’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Chloé, according to the stars
Core essence
Chloé leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Chloé is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Chloé wants to be loved
Chloé wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Chloé be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Chloé creates
How Chloé makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Chloé 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: Chloé is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Chloé 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Chloé fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Chloé's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Chloé sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Chloé Zhao's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 31, 1982, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Water Dog
Water DogWorries so you don't have to.
Chloé Zhao was born on March 31, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Chloé Zhao's birth date, March 31, 1982, 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 Chloé’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Chloé Zhao's date-only chart is Sun opposition Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Earth.
- Chloé Zhao 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.
Chloé’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Chloé Zhao, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableSunoppositionMars0.0° to 1.0° orb
Chloé’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 7.8° orb
Chloé’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.7° to 2.6° orb
Chloé’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb
Chloé’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrinePluto1.8° to 2.8° orb
Chloé’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileNeptune2.9° to 3.8° orb
Chloé’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb
Chloé’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineUranus4.8° to 6.7° orb
Chloé’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineUranus5.2° to 6.2° orb
Chloé’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.4° orb
Chloé’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Chloé’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 19°51′ (moves 0.06° 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 Chloé building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 26°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
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. Chloé is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCancer 19°37′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Chloé is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaCancer 25°23′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Chloé is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Chloé leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Eros square Saturn 0.0°
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Ceres trine Mercury 2.5°
- Ceres square Venus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.8°
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°).
Chloé’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. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Chloé is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Chloé’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.
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.6°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.8°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Chloé Zhao, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Chloé’s cards
Every card is computed from March 31, 1982, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Chloé Zhao, 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
Chloé’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21078321, 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 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chloé Zhao at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Chloé Zhao.
Quick answers about Chloé Zhao’s chart
- How old is Chloé Zhao?
- Chloé Zhao is 44 years old, born March 31, 1982 in Beijing, China.
- What zodiac sign is Chloé Zhao?
- Chloé Zhao is an Aries: born March 31, 1982, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog.
- What is Chloé Zhao's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 31, 1982 birth.
- What time was Chloé Zhao 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 Chloé Zhao's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the March 31, 1982 birth date.
- What is Chloé Zhao's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 31, 1982 birth date.
- Where is Chloé Zhao's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Chloé Zhao's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
