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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Snake, with 
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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.
Du Yun’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Du Yun sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Du Yun, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° 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.
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
Du Yun’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.6° to 0.8° orb
Du Yun’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.7° to 2.7° orb
Du Yun’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.1° to 2.3° orb
Du Yun’s affections and drive act as one.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.2° to 3.1° orb
Du Yun’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb
Du Yun’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
Du Yun’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionUranus2.6° to 3.6° orb
Du Yun’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.9° to 4.6° orb
Du Yun’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 4°37′ (moves 0.04° 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 Du Yun building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLibra 1°58′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Du Yun is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 3°41′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Du Yun is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 15°31′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Du Yun is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°15′ (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 Du Yun 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.
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.1°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.3°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.4°
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°).
Du Yun’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Du Yun is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Du Yun’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Du Yun, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
Every card is computed from June 18, 1977, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Du Yun, 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
Du Yun’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17385858, 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 Longafermata, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Du Yun at Wikipedia, X 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
- 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 time was Du Yun 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 Du Yun's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the June 18, 1977 birth date.
- What is Du Yun's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 18, 1977 birth date.
- 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.
