Du Yun
Du Yun (born June 18, 1977, Shanghai, China), aged 49, is a Chinese-born American composer, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist. Yun's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Du Yun’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Du Yun
Du Yun’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
What Du Yun’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on D (4) and closes on U (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Du Yun’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Du Yun apart
Du Yun took the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2017, at 40.
The classrooms behind this chart: Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
The working life starts in 2006, at 29.
Wikipedia's editors put Du Yun under Chinese women classical composers, Musicians from Shanghai and American women opera composers.
Paul McCartney (1942) and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Harvard University
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2018) and Pulitzer Prize for Music (2017)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition
- Working from
- 2006
- Citizenship
- United States and People's Republic of China
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 7
What the chart says
Du Yun, according to the stars
Core essence
Du Yun is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Du Yun needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Du Yun is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Du Yun needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Du Yun wants to be loved
Du Yun wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Du Yun is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Du Yun creates
How Du Yun makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Du Yun creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Du Yun 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 3 is the creative. Du Yun is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Du Yun is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Du Yun's birth date. Working below.
Where Du Yun sits
Six lines
Du Yun’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Du Yun
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shanghai 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 Shanghai that night
Computed for 31.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Shanghai was Izar, in Boötes, 85.5° up.
Of the 80 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 31.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −58.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Shanghai on any night.
Sun 21° below the horizon, Moon down and 3% lit at new moon.
How unusual Du's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Gemini · 1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Saturn
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 →Du Yun at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Du Yun's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 18, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Du Yun was born on June 18, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Du Yun's birth date, June 18, 1977, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Du Yun’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Du Yun's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Du Yun combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Du Yun’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° 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
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 1.6° orb
Du Yun’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMoonsquarePluto0.1° to 6.9° orb
Du Yun’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.4° to 2.3° orb
Du Yun’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.5° to 1.3° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.6° to 0.8° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto0.7° to 2.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.9° to 4.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Du Yun’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 4°37′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 1°58′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 3°41′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 15°31′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.1°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.3°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.4°
Du Yun’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn7 pts
7 major aspects
Configurations in Du Yun’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Saturn · Mars, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Uranus, SaturnAn 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.
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.3°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 2.0°
More people like Du Yun
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Born in People's Republic of China
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- Jeannette NgBritish fantasy writer
- Joseph LauHong Kong businessman
- Hao JingfangChinese science fiction writer (1984-)
- Zhang XiaolongChinese computer programmer, known for creating WeChat and Foxmail
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on June 18
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Jada Pinkett SmithAmerican actress
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Other Gemini Snake charts
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Other Radiant Healers
- Josh HelmanAustralian television and film actor
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- Peter FondaAmerican actor and filmmaker
- Sam MendesBritish stage and film director (born 1965)
Famous people with Life Path 3
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Du Yun’s cards
Computed from June 18, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Du Yun’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17385858 (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 Longafermata, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Du Yun at Wikipedia, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Du Yun.
Quick answers about Du Yun’s chart
- How old is Du Yun?
- Du Yun is 49 years old, born June 18, 1977 in Shanghai, China.
- What zodiac sign is Du Yun?
- Du Yun is a Gemini: born June 18, 1977, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Du Yun's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 18, 1977 birth.
- What is Du Yun's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Du Yun's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Du Yun's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Du Yun's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
