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Hua Hsu

Hua Hsu (born June 28, 1977, Illinois, United States), aged 49, is an Asian-American writer. Hsu is best known for Stay True. Hsu's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography and National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and Autobiography.

Hua Hsu’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Hua Hsu’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Pioneer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

What Hua’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on H (8) and closes on A (1).

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

Hua’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Pearl, Pearl, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌺 Poppy

Rose pink · Pearl · Flame orange

The record

What sets Hua apart

Elon Musk (1971) and Muhammad Yunus (1940) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Hua, according to the stars

Core essence

Hua feels the room before entering it. The core of Hua is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Hua, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

How Hua wants to be loved

Hua 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 Hua is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Hua creates

How Hua 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. Hua 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: Hua 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 4 is the builder. Hua is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Hua 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 Hua's birth date. Working below.

Where Hua sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Hua

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Hua

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

PrivateExpressive
Hua

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Hua

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

PracticalVisionary
Hua

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Hua

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Hua Hsu

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

Hua’s birth-night reference starAlkaidblue · Ursa MajorAlkaid, in Ursa Major. A blue star, 77.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaid →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 18.3° 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 Illinois that night

Computed for 40.00°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Illinois at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Illinois sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Illinois at all: they sit past the −50.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 94% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.

How unusual Hua's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl

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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Hua Hsu in 15 seconds

Cancer Sun

Feeds you before you ask.

Hua Hsu's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 28, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Fire Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Hua Hsu was born on June 28, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 4

Structure is comfort.

Hua Hsu's birth date, June 28, 1977, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Hua’s chart

Hua’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.7° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 1° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.7° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.4° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.4° orbSun in Cancer · 6°52′☉6°Moon in Sagittarius · 2°28′☽2°Mercury in Cancer · 5°16′☿5°Venus in Taurus · 21°42′♀21°Mars in Taurus · 16°34′♂16°Jupiter in Gemini · 19°15′♃19°Saturn in Leo · 14°50′♄14°Uranus in Scorpio · 7°49′ · retrograde♅℞7°Neptune in Sagittarius · 14°10′ · retrograde♆℞14°Pluto in Libra · 11°25′♇11°

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

  • stableSuntrineUranus0.5° to 1.4° orb

    Hua’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb

    Hua’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.0° to 2.2° orb

    Hua’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarssquareSaturn1.4° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus1.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto4.1° to 5.0° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars5.0° to 5.3° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.0° to 5.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 1.5° to 16.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 5°01′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 4°28′ (moves 0.26° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 29°07′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 18°19′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 7°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Mercury 0.2°
  • Ceres square Mercury 0.8°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 0.9°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 1.7°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 1.8°
  • Ceres square Sun 2.4°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.8°

Hua’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Hua’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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Mars biquintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.4°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 2.4°

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Hua’s cards

Computed from June 28, 1977. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Emperor

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

4 · Architect

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Hua’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q23013656 (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 Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Hua Hsu at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hua Hsu.

Quick answers about Hua Hsu’s chart

How old is Hua Hsu?
Hua Hsu is 49 years old, born June 28, 1977 in Illinois, United States.
What zodiac sign is Hua Hsu?
Hua Hsu is a Cancer: born June 28, 1977, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is Hua Hsu's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 28, 1977 birth.
What is Hua Hsu's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Hua Hsu's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Hua Hsu's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Hua Hsu's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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