Chow Yun-fat
Chow Yun-fat (born May 18, 1955, Hong Kong, China), aged 71, is a Hong Kong actor. Notable films include Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Anna and the King. Yun-fat's honours include Silver Bauhinia Star, Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor and Tatler Most Influential Hong Kong.
Chow Yun-fat’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Chow
Chow Yun-fat’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
What Chow’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
1
Soul Urge · independence
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on C (3) and closes on W (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Chow’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
The record
What sets Chow apart
Chow Yun-fat took the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor in 1985, at 30.
Training came by way of Liu Po Shan Memorial College and Wellington College.
The working life starts in 1973, at 18.
The family line: born to Chen Lifang and Zhou Rongyun and married Jasmine Tan.
Tina Fey (1970) and Teresa Giudice (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Liu Po Shan Memorial College, Wellington College and Chan Shu Kui Memorial School
- Awards
- Silver Bauhinia Star (2003), Tatler Most Influential Hong Kong (2023) and Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor (1985)
- Working from
- 1973
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
What the chart says
Chow, according to the stars
Core essence
Chow is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Chow is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Chow wants to be loved
Chow wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Chow creates
How Chow makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Chow creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Chow is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Chow 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Chow scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Chow's birth date. Working below.
Where Chow sits
Six lines
Chow’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Chow Yun-fat
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong that night
Computed for 22.28°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Hong Kong at 9 p.m. that evening: Zosma of Leo, within 2.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
From 22.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon, 16% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hong Kong, China
- Lives in
- Kowloon Tong
Wikidata records Kowloon Tong as Chow Yun-fat's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Chow Yun-fat: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Chow's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet · 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.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Chow Yun-fat's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 18, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Chow Yun-fat was born on May 18, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
Chow Yun-fat's birth date, May 18, 1955, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Chow’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Chow Yun-fat's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Chow Yun-fat combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Chow’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Pisces or Aries 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
stableMarssextilePluto0.1° to 0.8° orb
Chow’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.6° to 1.4° orb
Chow’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.6° to 0.8° orb
Chow’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune0.9° to 1.6° orb
stableSunsextileUranus1.4° to 2.3° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb
stableSunsquarePluto1.6° to 2.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune1.6° to 2.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableVenussquareUranus3.1° to 4.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Chow’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 5°29′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 25°19′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 11°60′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 7°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 7°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 0.1°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.8°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.8°
- Ceres trine Sun 1.1°
- Ceres square Venus 2.9°
Chow’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Chow’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Venus, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
More people like Chow
Other screenwriters
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- Dennis Quaid1954
- Tom Hanks1956
- J. Michael Straczynski1954
- Giuseppe Tornatore1956
- James Cameron1954
Born in China
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- Liu WenChinese model
- Liu YifeiChinese-American actress and singer
- Liang WenfengChinese businessman
- Zhang YimingChinese technology entrepreneur
- Fan BingbingChinese actress
More charts like Chow’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Carnie WilsonAmerican singer
- Chris ZylkaAmerican actor and model
- Iker CasillasSpanish association football player
Born in Goat years
- Leslie CaronFrench and American actress and dancer (born 1931)
- Rosalind RussellAmerican actress
- Don Hahnartist, film maker, producer (born 1955)
Also born on May 18
- Tina Fey1970
- Teresa Giudice1972
- Travis Hunter2003
- Emma Navarro2001
- Theodor Loos1883
- James Donald1917
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Thomas MannGerman novelist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Fritz HaberGerman chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize
- Hans SpemannGerman embryologist
Other Taurus Goat charts
- Jabari Smith Jr.American basketball player (born 2003)
- Malaki BranhamAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Trey AlexanderAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Jeremy SochanAmerican-Polish basketball player
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Ernesto BertarelliSwiss-Italian billionaire, entrepreneur, philanthropist
- Henry KravisAmerican businessman
- Cheng Kar ShunHong Kong businessman
- Anders Holch PovlsenDanish businessman
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Martin SheenAmerican actor (born 1940)
- Linda ThompsonAmerican actress (born 1950)
- Jordin SparksAmerican singer
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Chow’s cards
Computed from May 18, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Chow’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q181425 (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 alotofmillion, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Chow Yun-fat.
Quick answers about Chow Yun-fat’s chart
- How old is Chow Yun-fat?
- Chow Yun-fat is 71 years old, born May 18, 1955 in Hong Kong, China.
- What zodiac sign is Chow Yun-fat?
- Chow Yun-fat is a Taurus: born May 18, 1955, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Chow Yun-fat's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 18, 1955 birth.
- What is Chow Yun-fat's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Chow Yun-fat's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Chow Yun-fat's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Chow Yun-fat's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
