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Le Duc Tho

Le Duc Tho (born October 14, 1911, Hà Nam, Vietnam; died 1990), was a Vietnamese diplomat. Tho's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Order of the October Revolution and Gold Star Order.

Le Duc Tho’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Le Duc Tho’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Visionary

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Le Duc Tho in the U.S.?

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outside the current top list

~1,653

Americans share it since 1888

1982

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1911, Le came 1,890th, carried by 5 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Le Duc Tho’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

5

Soul Urge · freedom

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on L (3) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Le Duc Tho’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

Amber · Blush · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1911, 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 Le Duc Tho apart

Le Duc Tho took the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, at 62.

Cause of death is recorded as cancer.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Le Duc Tho: Members of the 4th Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam, People's Republic of Kampuchea and Alternates of the 1st Central Committee of the Indochinese Communist Party.

Usher (1978) and Ralph Lauren (1939) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Nobel Peace Prize (1973) and Order of the October Revolution (1986)
Cause of death
cancer
Citizenship
Vietnam
Languages
Vietnamese
Wikipedia editions
61

What the chart says

Le Duc Tho, according to the stars

Core essence

Le Duc Tho makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Le Duc Tho is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Le Duc Tho is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Le Duc Tho needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Le Duc Tho wants to be loved

Le Duc Tho wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Le Duc Tho and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Le Duc Tho creates

How Le Duc Tho 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. Le Duc Tho 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: Le Duc Tho 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Le Duc Tho 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Le Duc Tho scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Le Duc Tho's birth date. Working below.

Where Le Duc Tho sits

Six lines

Le Duc Tho’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Le Duc Tho

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Le Duc Tho

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

PrivateExpressive
Le Duc Tho

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Le Duc Tho

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

PracticalVisionary
Le Duc Tho

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Le Duc Tho

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 Le Duc Tho

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hà Nam 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 Hà Nam that night

Computed for 20.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Hà Nam at 9 p.m. that evening: Markab of Pegasus, within 6.3° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 20.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The Moon, 55% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 53° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Hà Nam, Vietnam
Lived in
Ho Chi Minh City

Wikidata records Ho Chi Minh City as Le Duc Tho's home, against Hà Nam as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Hanoi, Vietnam in 1990.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Le Duc Tho: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Le's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Sun · 1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets

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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If you only read one paragraph

Libra Sun

Fair to a fault, slow to pick.

Le Duc Tho's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 14, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Metal Pig

Generous to the last coin.

Le Duc Tho was born on October 14, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Le Duc Tho's birth date, October 14, 1911, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Le Duc Tho’s chart

Le Duc Tho’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.3° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.7° orbMercury flows with Mars · Trine, 2° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.1° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 3.5° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 3.6° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 4° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.4° orbSun in Libra · 19°44′☉19°Moon in Cancer · 9°22′☽9°Mercury in Libra · 12°49′☿12°Venus in Virgo · 14°25′♀14°Mars in Gemini · 10°50′♂10°Jupiter in Scorpio · 17°30′♃17°Saturn in Taurus · 18°47′ · retrograde♄℞18°Uranus in Capricorn · 25°26′♅25°Neptune in Cancer · 23°45′♆23°Pluto in Gemini · 28°58′ · retrograde♇℞28°

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

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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

  • stableMercurytrineMars1.2° to 2.8° orb

    Le Duc Tho’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn1.2° to 1.4° orb

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

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.7° orb

    Le Duc Tho’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter3.0° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSunsquareNeptune3.5° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars3.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn4.2° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.9° to 5.0° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus5.2° to 6.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune6.2° to 6.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury6.5° to 7.3° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus6.6° to 6.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

Le Duc Tho’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 2°41′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 26°20′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 26°26′ (moves 0.89° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 28°26′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 3°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 0.5°
  • Ceres opposition Uranus 0.9°
  • Eros trine Uranus 1.0°
  • Eros square Pluto 2.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.6°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 2.7°

Le Duc Tho’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Le Duc Tho’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Uranus, Neptune, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.0°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
  • Sun quincunx Saturn 0.9°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.6°

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Le Duc Tho’s cards

Computed from October 14, 1911. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Le Duc Tho’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q233969 (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 Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Le Duc Tho at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Le Duc Tho.

Quick answers about Le Duc Tho’s chart

What zodiac sign was Le Duc Tho?
Le Duc Tho was a Libra: born October 14, 1911, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Le Duc Tho's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 14, 1911 birth.
What was Le Duc Tho's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Le Duc Tho's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Le Duc Tho's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Le Duc Tho's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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