Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian (born January 4, 1940, Ganxian District, China), aged 86, is a Chinese novelist and playwright (1940- ). Xingjian is best known for Soul Mountain and The Other Shore. Xingjian's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Commander of the Legion of Honour and honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Gao Xingjian’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Gao
Gao Xingjian’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Gao in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~375
Americans share it since 1980
1989
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Gao falls under that line for 1940. Its peak came in 1989, and 375 Americans have carried it since 1980.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Gao’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on G (7) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Gao’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
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 1939, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Gao apart
The record Gao Xingjian is measured by: Soul Mountain and The Other Shore.
Gao Xingjian was taught at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Nanjing Jinling High School.
Brian David Josephson shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Soul Mountain and The Other Shore
- Educated at
- Beijing Foreign Studies University and Nanjing Jinling High School
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Literature (2000), honorary doctor of the University of Provence - Aix-Marseille I (2001) and Commander of the Legion of Honour (2022)
- Citizenship
- France and People's Republic of China
- Languages
- French and Chinese
- Wikipedia editions
- 104
What the chart says
Gao, according to the stars
Core essence
Gao is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Gao is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Gao feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Gao needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Gao wants to be loved
Gao 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 Gao be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Gao creates
How Gao 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. Gao 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: Gao is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Gao is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Gao leads without needing to do it alone.
Computed from Gao's birth date. Working below.
Where Gao sits
Six lines
Gao’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 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 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 Gao Xingjian
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ganxian District 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 Ganxian District that night
Computed for 25.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Electra stood nearest the zenith over Ganxian District at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.3° above the horizon in Taurus.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Ganxian District sits at 25.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 25% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Gao's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · No Water planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Gao Xingjian's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 4, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitQuiet luck follows.
Gao Xingjian was born on January 4, 1940, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Gao Xingjian's birth date, January 4, 1940, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Gao’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gao Xingjian's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Gao Xingjian combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Gao’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 14° Scorpio 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
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.5° to 2.0° orb
Gao’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.6° to 0.7° orb
Gao’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter1.2° to 1.7° orb
Gao’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.6° to 3.1° orb
stableMarstrinePluto1.7° to 2.4° orb
stableMercurysquareMars2.9° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.1° to 5.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.9° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.0° to 6.1° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.4° to 6.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Gao’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 17°21′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 18°54′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 9°13′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 6°27′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 12°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.4°
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Eros square Venus 3.0°
Gao’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Gao’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Neptune, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Neptune, MercuryAn 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 quintile Saturn 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.6°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.7°
Born the same day as Gao
Brian David Josephson was born on January 4, 1940 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 102 catalog stars stood above Ganxian District, at 25.8°N that night, with Electra nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Gao
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- Burt Young1940
- Hampton Fancher1938
- Al Pacino1940
- Liv Ullmann1938
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Born in People's Republic of China
- Barry LamTaiwanese businessman (born 1949)
- Liu CixinChinese science fiction writer
- Shing-Tung YauAmerican mathematician from Hong Kong
- Chiang Kai-shekChinese politician, military leader, and President of the ROC
- Cheng Kar ShunHong Kong businessman
- Walter Houser BrattainAmerican physicist
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Fellow Capricorn suns
- Edward TellerHungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist
- Aristotle OnassisGreek shipping magnate
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oKenyan writer
Born in Rabbit years
- David HarbourAmerican actor (born 1975)
- Jesse Tyler FergusonAmerican actor
- Presley GerberAmerican model
Also born on January 4
- Victor Wembanyama2004
- Rayssa Leal2008
- Coco Jones1998
- D'Arcy Carden1980
- Tina Knowles1954
- Charles Melton1991
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Roberto CarlosBrazilian footballer
- Jake GyllenhaalAmerican actor
- Shaquille O'NealAmerican basketball player
Other Capricorn Rabbit charts
- Brock PurdyAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Cary GrantBritish-American actor
- Tom Helmoreactor from England
- Ray BolgerAmerican actor
Other Radiant Strategists
- Erik Axel KarlfeldtSwedish poet
- August KroghDanish physiologist
- Brian David JosephsonWelsh physicist
- Christiane Nüsslein-VolhardGerman biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Roy DotriceBritish actor
- George RaftAmerican actor
- Gabriele FerzettiItalian actor
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Gao’s cards
Computed from January 4, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Gao’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q18143 (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 Jwh, CC BY-SA 3.0 lu, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gao Xingjian at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Gao Xingjian.
Quick answers about Gao Xingjian’s chart
- How old is Gao Xingjian?
- Gao Xingjian is 86 years old, born January 4, 1940 in Ganxian District, China.
- What zodiac sign is Gao Xingjian?
- Gao Xingjian is a Capricorn: born January 4, 1940, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Gao Xingjian's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 4, 1940 birth.
- What is Gao Xingjian's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Gao Xingjian's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Gao Xingjian's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gao Xingjian's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Aries; disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
