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Kim Dae-jung

Kim Dae-jung (born January 6, 1924, Hauido, South Korea; died 2009) was a 8th President of the Republic of Korea.

Kim Dae-jung (1924–2009) served as the 8th President of the Republic of Korea. Dae-jung held office as Member of the National Assembly of South Korea and President of South Korea. Dae-jung's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Grand Order of Mugunghwa and Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Kim Dae-jung’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

Your match with Kim

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Kim Dae-jung’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Pioneer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#4228

US rank in 2025

~214,768

Americans share it since 1912

1960

its peak year

The SSA recorded 9 American girls and 8 boys named Kim in 1924: 3,525th among girls and 3,385th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kim’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

9

Soul Urge · meaning

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on K (2) and closes on M (4).

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

Kim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink

The record

What sets Kim apart

Rowan Atkinson (1955) and Eddie Redmayne (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Kim, according to the stars

Core essence

Kim is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Kim 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, Kim is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Kim needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Kim wants to be loved

Kim 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 Kim be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Kim creates

How Kim makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Kim builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Kim is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Kim is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Kim 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 Kim's birth date. Working below.

Where Kim sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Kim

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kim

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

PrivateExpressive
Kim

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kim

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

PracticalVisionary
Kim

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Kim

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hauido 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 Hauido that night

Computed for 34.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Atik stood nearest the zenith over Hauido at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.8° above the horizon in Perseus.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Hauido sits at 34.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Hauido at all: they sit past the −55.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.

How unusual Kim's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Kim Dae-jung at a glance

Capricorn Sun

Dry wit, dead serious.

Kim Dae-jung's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 6, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Water Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Kim Dae-jung was born on January 6, 1924, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Kim Dae-jung's birth date, January 6, 1924, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Kim’s chart

Kim’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 16° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.1° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.3° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.3° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.7° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.2° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.3° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.2° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 5.3° orbSun in Capricorn · 14°32′☉14°Moon in Capricorn · 8°59′☽8°Mercury in Capricorn · 28°34′ · retrograde☿℞28°Venus in Aquarius · 13°23′♀13°Mars in Scorpio · 21°13′♂21°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 9°09′♃9°Saturn in Scorpio · 1°13′♄1°Uranus in Pisces · 14°25′♅14°Neptune in Leo · 19°53′ · retrograde♆℞19°Pluto in Cancer · 11°15′ · retrograde♇℞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

  • stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Kim’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune1.0° to 1.7° orb

    Kim’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn2.5° to 2.9° orb

    Kim’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto2.8° to 3.8° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableVenussextileJupiter3.7° to 4.8° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus5.2° to 5.3° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune5.9° to 7.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 12.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 12.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.4° to 15.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 16°32′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 24°20′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 4°32′ (moves 0.81° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 14°30′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 21°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Sun 0.0°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.5°
  • Chiron square Sun 2.0°

Kim’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Kim’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 biquintile Neptune 0.6°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.8°
  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
  • Sun quintile Saturn 1.3°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
  • Venus quincunx Pluto 2.1°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.1°

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Kim’s cards

Computed from January 6, 1924. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Pioneer

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q45785 (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.

The same Kim Dae-jung 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 Kim Dae-jung.

Quick answers about Kim Dae-jung’s chart

What zodiac sign was Kim Dae-jung?
Kim Dae-jung was a Capricorn: born January 6, 1924, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Kim Dae-jung's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 6, 1924 birth.
What was Kim Dae-jung's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Kim Dae-jung's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Kim Dae-jung's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Kim Dae-jung's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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