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Kim Hong-joong

Kim Hong-joong (born November 7, 1998, Anyang, South Korea), aged 27, is a South Korean rapper and singer.

Kim Hong-joong’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Kim Hong-joong’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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

Of the names registered in 1998, Kim came 1,602nd among girls and 3,245th among boys, carried by 102 American girls and 24 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Kim’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

9

Soul Urge · meaning

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on K (2) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

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

9 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1998, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Kim apart

Global Cyber University shaped the training.

The working life starts in 2018, at 20.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Kim Hong-joong: People from Anyang, Gyeonggi, Mix Nine contestants and Ateez members.

Marie Curie (1867) and Albert Camus (1913) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Global Cyber University
Instruments
guitar, sampler and voice
Working from
2018
Citizenship
South Korea
Languages
Korean
Wikipedia editions
14

What the chart says

Kim, according to the stars

Core essence

Kim does not do surface. The core of Kim is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Kim is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Kim wants to be loved

Kim wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Kim even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Kim creates

How Kim makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Kim creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Kim is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Kim is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Kim channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Kim

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Kim

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Kim

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Kim

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

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

Dedicate a star to Kim Hong-joong

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

Computed for 37.39°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over Anyang at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.0° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 93 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 37.4°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 −52.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 85% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.

How unusual Kim's chart is

Chart pattern score

11 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Kim Hong-joong at a glance

Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Kim Hong-joong's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 7, 1998, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Tiger

Courage before caution.

Kim Hong-joong was born on November 7, 1998, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Kim Hong-joong's birth date, November 7, 1998, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 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 18° to 2° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 0.1° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.2° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.5° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.7° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.8° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.1° orbSun in Scorpio · 14°30′☉14°Moon in Gemini · 25°23′☽25°Mercury in Sagittarius · 6°52′☿6°Venus in Scorpio · 16°30′♀16°Mars in Virgo · 18°21′♂18°Jupiter in Pisces · 18°14′ · retrograde♃℞18°Saturn in Aries · 29°02′ · retrograde♄℞29°Uranus in Aquarius · 8°58′♅8°Neptune in Capricorn · 29°35′♆29°Pluto in Sagittarius · 7°02′♇7°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Kim’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Kim’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb

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

  • stableVenustrineJupiter1.1° to 2.4° orb

  • stableMercurysextileUranus1.5° to 2.7° orb

  • stableVenussextileMars1.5° to 2.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus1.9° to 2.1° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.9° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter3.2° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars3.6° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus5.0° to 6.0° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 14.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

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

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 22°19′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 11°07′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 8°03′ (moves 0.54° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 26°52′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 6°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Uranus 2.2°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.4°

Kim’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Pluto; 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.

  • Venus quintile Neptune 1.1°

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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan

Kim’s cards

Computed from November 7, 1998. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Kim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q85864418 (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 K-POPIT 케이팝잇, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Kim Hong-joong at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Kim Hong-joong.

Quick answers about Kim Hong-joong’s chart

How old is Kim Hong-joong?
Kim Hong-joong is 27 years old, born November 7, 1998 in Anyang, South Korea.
What zodiac sign is Kim Hong-joong?
Kim Hong-joong is a Scorpio: born November 7, 1998, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Kim Hong-joong's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 7, 1998 birth.
What is Kim Hong-joong's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Kim Hong-joong's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Kim Hong-joong's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Kim Hong-joong's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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