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Hao Jingfang

Hao Jingfang (born July 27, 1984, Tianjin, China), aged 42, is a Chinese science fiction writer (1984-). Jingfang's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

Hao Jingfang’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Hao Jingfang’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Hao in the U.S.?

#11154

US rank in 2025

~454

Americans share it since 1976

1992

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1984, Hao came 4,340th, carried by 9 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Hao’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

8

Soul Urge · achievement

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on H (8) 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

Hao’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1984, 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 Hao apart

Hao Jingfang took the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2016, at 32.

Training came by way of Tsinghua University.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Hao Jingfang: Writers from Tianjin, Chinese women novelists and Tsinghua University alumni.

The same date carries Taylor Schilling. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Tsinghua University
Awards
Hugo Award for Best Novelette (2016)
Nominated for
Ignyte Award for Best Novel, Adult and Locus Award for Best Novelette
Citizenship
People's Republic of China
Languages
Chinese
Wikipedia editions
17

What the chart says

Hao, according to the stars

Core essence

Hao is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Hao is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Hao 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 Hao needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Hao wants to be loved

Hao wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Hao openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Hao creates

How Hao makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Hao creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Hao is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Hao is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Hao runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Hao's birth date. Working below.

Where Hao sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Hao

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Hao

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Hao

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Hao

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Hao

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Hao

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Hao Jingfang

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tianjin on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Hao’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 76.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 23.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Tianjin that night

Computed for 39.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Tianjin at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 13.6° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.

From 39.1°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 −50.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.

How unusual Hao's chart is

Chart pattern score

31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 2 planets 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.

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Leo Sun

Loves an audience. Earns one.

Hao Jingfang's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 27, 1984, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Wood Rat

Resourceful is an understatement.

Hao Jingfang was born on July 27, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 11

Receives more than it reasons.

Hao Jingfang's birth date, July 27, 1984, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Hao’s chart

Hao’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.9° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 3.5° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.8° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 4.2° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.9° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 5.4° orbSun in Leo · 4°18′☉4°Moon in Cancer · 16°25′☽16°Mercury in Virgo · 1°02′☿1°Venus in Leo · 15°40′♀15°Mars in Scorpio · 19°53′♂19°Jupiter in Capricorn · 4°51′ · retrograde♃℞4°Saturn in Scorpio · 9°51′♄9°Uranus in Sagittarius · 9°44′ · retrograde♅℞9°Neptune in Sagittarius · 29°09′ · retrograde♆℞29°Pluto in Libra · 29°24′♇29°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° to 0.3° orb

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

  • stableMercurysextilePluto1.1° to 2.2° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune1.3° to 2.5° orb

    Hao’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter3.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars3.8° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto4.4° to 5.4° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus4.9° to 5.9° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn5.1° to 6.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.2° to 6.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus5.3° to 6.5° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.7° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 7°17′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 17°10′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 10°38′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 11°35′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 25°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Uranus 0.9°
  • Ceres square Venus 1.5°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 1.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.8°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.4°
  • Ceres opposition Mars 2.7°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 3.0°

Hao’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Hao’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.0°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.5°
  • Sun biquintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°

Born the same day as Hao

Taylor Schilling was born on July 27, 1984 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Tianjin sits at 39.1°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite

Hao’s cards

Computed from July 27, 1984. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

11 · Visionary

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Hao’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q26470186 (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 DeuxPlusQuatre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Hao Jingfang’s chart

How old is Hao Jingfang?
Hao Jingfang is 42 years old, born July 27, 1984 in Tianjin, China.
What zodiac sign is Hao Jingfang?
Hao Jingfang is a Leo: born July 27, 1984, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Hao Jingfang's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 27, 1984 birth.
What is Hao Jingfang's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Hao Jingfang's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Hao Jingfang's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Hao Jingfang's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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