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, Chinese zodiac is Water Dog, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Chloé
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.
What Chloé’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
9
Soul Urge · meaning
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on C (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 8, which numerology reads as ambition.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Chloé’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Chloé apart
Octavio Paz (1914) and Ewan McGregor (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Chloé sits
Six lines
Chloé’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 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.
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 Chloé Zhao
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Beijing 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 Beijing that night
Computed for 39.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Beijing at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 8.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
From 39.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −50.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Beijing on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 43% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 26° down.
How unusual Chloé's chart is
Chart pattern score
75 / 100 · Rare
6 planets retrograde · T-square onto Mercury · A bowl chart
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 →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Gemini or Cancer 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
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
stableVenustrinePluto1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.9° to 3.8° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus4.8° to 6.7° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.2° to 6.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 19°51′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 26°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 19°37′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 25°23′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Chloé’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Chloé’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.
- 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°
More people like Chloé
Other film directors
- Jason Bateman1969
- Tim Burton1958
- Tina Turner1939
- Thomas Edison1847
- Nancy Kerrigan1969
- David Furnish1962
Born in People's Republic of China
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- Yang HansenChinese basketball player (born 2005)
- Liang WengenBillionaire and member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- Pan ZhanleChinese swimmer
- Liu CixinChinese science fiction writer
More charts like Chloé’s
Fellow Aries suns
- DJ AMAmerican disc jockey
- Nina AgdalDanish model
- Ant AnsteadEnglish television presenter, motor specialist and designer
Born in Dog years
- Nicholas GalitzineBritish actor
- Phoebe BridgersAmerican musician
- Alan RitchsonAmerican actor
Also born on March 31
- Octavio Paz1914
- Ewan McGregor1971
- Christopher Walken1943
- Angus Young1955
- Jack Antonoff1984
- Liza Koshy1996
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Arthur BlankAmerican businessman and sports team owner
- Laurene Powell JobsAmerican political activist, business executive, philanthropist, heiress, billionaire
- Eric SmidtAmerican businessmen
Other Aries Dog charts
- MacKenzie ScottAmerican philanthropist and novelist
- Jackson WangChinese rapper and singer
- Fatih BirolTurkish economist and energy expert
- Ini EdoNigerian actress
Other Tidal Visionarys
- Netta BarzilaiIsraeli singer
- Donatella VersaceItalian fashion designer
- Joan JettAmerican rock musician
- Lleyton HewittAustralian tennis player and tennis coach
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Liam McNeeleyAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
- Kon KnueppelAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
- PJ HallAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
From the journal: Is Western astrology outdated? · Reading your chart in order: a step-by-step method
Chloé’s cards
Computed from March 31, 1982. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Chloé’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21078321 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Chloé Zhao's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Chloé Zhao's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
