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Fan Bingbing

Fan Bingbing (born September 16, 1981, Yantai, China), aged 45, is a Chinese actress. Bingbing is best known for My Way. Bingbing's honours include Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress and Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Fan Bingbing’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Fan Bingbing’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Storyteller

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

What Fan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

1

Soul Urge · independence

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on F (6) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Fan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 5 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia

Lavender · Lilac · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1981, 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 Fan apart

The shelf Fan Bingbing is read from: My Way.

Training came by way of Shanghai Normal University.

The working life starts in 1996, at 15.

The same date carries Alexis Bledel. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Known for
My Way
Educated at
Shanghai Normal University
Instruments
voice
Awards
Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress (2007) and Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress (2025)
Working from
1996
Citizenship
People's Republic of China
Languages
Chinese
Wikipedia editions
66

What the chart says

Fan, according to the stars

Core essence

Fan notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Fan is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Fan runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Fan needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Fan wants to be loved

Fan wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Fan even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Fan creates

How Fan makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Fan creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Fan is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Fan is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Fan fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

Computed from Fan's birth date. Working below.

Where Fan sits

Six lines

Fan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Fan

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Fan

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Fan

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Fan

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Fan

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Fan

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Fan Bingbing

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Yantai 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 Yantai that night

Computed for 37.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Yantai at 9 p.m. that evening: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 3.6° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 92 catalog stars were up in all.

From 37.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 92% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 34° down.

How unusual Fan's chart is

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all

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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Fan Bingbing at a glance

Virgo Sun

Standards nobody else can meet.

Fan Bingbing's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 16, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Metal Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Fan Bingbing was born on September 16, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Fan Bingbing's birth date, September 16, 1981, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Fan’s chart

Fan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.1° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.5° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.6° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 2.2° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.5° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.6° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3.6° orbSun in Virgo · 23°12′☉23°Moon in Aries · 20°34′☽20°Mercury in Libra · 18°21′☿18°Venus in Scorpio · 3°45′♀3°Mars in Leo · 8°52′♂8°Jupiter in Libra · 14°45′♃14°Saturn in Libra · 10°24′♄10°Uranus in Scorpio · 26°49′♅26°Neptune in Sagittarius · 22°08′♆22°Pluto in Libra · 23°03′♇23°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.6° to 1.6° orb

    Fan’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb

    Fan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn1.3° to 1.8° orb

    Fan’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.1° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.2° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune3.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.1° to 5.3° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars4.8° to 5.4° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Fan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 22°40′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 22°51′ (moves 0.46° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 20°57′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 26°16′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 29°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Sun 0.3°
  • Chiron trine Sun 0.5°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.6°
  • Ceres square Neptune 0.7°
  • Eros trine Sun 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.2°

Fan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Fan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, PlutoThree 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 0.7°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.4°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°

Born the same day as Fan

Alexis Bledel was born on September 16, 1981 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 37.5°N, the sky above Yantai stops at −52.5° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Fan’s cards

Computed from September 16, 1981. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Fan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q381074 (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 Fan Bingbing at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Fan Bingbing.

Quick answers about Fan Bingbing’s chart

How old is Fan Bingbing?
Fan Bingbing is 45 years old, born September 16, 1981 in Yantai, China.
What zodiac sign is Fan Bingbing?
Fan Bingbing is a Virgo: born September 16, 1981, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Fan Bingbing's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 16, 1981 birth.
What is Fan Bingbing's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Fan Bingbing's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Fan Bingbing's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Fan Bingbing's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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