IU
IU (born May 16, 1993, Songjeong-dong, South Korea), aged 33, is a South Korean singer, songwriter and actress. Best-known releases include Last Fantasy, Palette and Love Poem.
IU’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rooster, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.How compatible are you with IU?
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- · Your compatibility percentage
- · What attracts you to each other
- · What you would bring to the match
- · Where you might clash
- · Whether you share lucky numbers, colours, stones or seasons
IU’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
IU’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Blush · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
IU, according to the stars
Core essence
IU is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of IU is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, IU is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What IU needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How IU wants to be loved
IU wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How IU creates
How IU 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. IU 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: IU 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. IU is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means IU 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 IU's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where IU sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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.
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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.
IU at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
IU's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 16, 1993, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Water Rooster
Water RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
IU was born on May 16, 1993, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
IU's birth date, May 16, 1993, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in IU’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in IU's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- IU combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
IU’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for IU, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.6° orb
IU’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoontrinePluto0.0° to 6.2° orb
IU’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.1° to 2.3° orb
IU’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionPluto0.7° to 1.6° orb
IU’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranusconjunctionNeptune1.0° orb
IU’s need for freedom and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.1° to 4.3° orb
IU’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussextilePluto2.1° orb
IU’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineUranus2.7° to 3.7° orb
IU’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° orb
IU’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.2° to 5.4° orb
IU’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.5° to 5.6° orb
IU’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenustrineMars3.5° to 3.7° orb
IU’s affections flow straight into their drive.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
IU’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.
⚷ ChironLeo 17°57′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has IU performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresAries 12°07′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: IU looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 13°22′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. IU is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCancer 27°35′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. IU is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 23°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. IU is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.5°
- Eros sextile Venus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.3°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.6°
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°).
IU’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. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto8 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; 6 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: IU is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 IU’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.
T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Sun, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for IU, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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IU’s cards
Every card is computed from May 16, 1993, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for IU, 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
IU’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q20145, 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 티비텐 TV10, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same IU at Wikipedia, universal-music.co.jp, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
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 IU.
Quick answers about IU’s chart
- How old is IU?
- IU is 33 years old, born May 16, 1993 in Songjeong-dong, South Korea.
- What zodiac sign is IU?
- IU is a Taurus: born May 16, 1993, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rooster.
- What is IU's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 16, 1993 birth.
- What time was IU 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 IU's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the May 16, 1993 birth date.
- What is IU's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 16, 1993 birth date.
- Where is IU's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is IU's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
