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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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.

Hua’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Hua sits

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

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. 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 4

Structure is comfort.

Hua Hsu's birth date, June 28, 1977, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.

What stands out in Hua’s chart

Hua’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Hua Hsu, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

    Hua’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus1.5° to 3.7° orb

    Hua’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° to 2.8° orb

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

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb

    Hua’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsquarePluto4.1° to 5.0° orb

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

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn4.4° to 4.5° orb

    Hua’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars5.0° to 5.3° orb

    Hua’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.0° to 5.2° orb

    Hua’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • 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

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 5°01′ (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 Hua building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 4°28′ (moves 0.26° 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. Hua is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

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

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

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Hua attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 18°19′ (moves 0.28° 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. Hua is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 7°25′ (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 Hua 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.

  • 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°

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°).

Hua’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. 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

A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Hua is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.

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 Hua’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Hua Hsu, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign

Hua’s cards

Every card is computed from June 28, 1977, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Emperor

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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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

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Hua Hsu, 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

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

The same Hua Hsu at Wikipedia.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
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 time was Hua Hsu 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 Hua Hsu's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the June 28, 1977 birth date.
What is Hua Hsu's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 28, 1977 birth date.
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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