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Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew (born September 16, 1923, Singapore; died 2015) was a 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore.

Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) served as the 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore. Yew held office as Member of the Parliament of Singapore and member of the Dewan Rakyat. Yew's honours include Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of Honour and Order of Merit.

Lee Kuan Yew’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Lee Kuan Yew’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Explorer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

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

#727

US rank in 2025

~295,926

Americans share it since 1880

1951

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Lee’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

22 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink

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What the chart says

Lee, according to the stars

Core essence

Lee notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Lee is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Lee wants to be loved

Lee 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 Lee and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Lee creates

How Lee makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Lee creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Lee 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 22 is the master builder. Lee is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Lee 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 Lee's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Lee sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Lee

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Lee

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

PrivateExpressive
Lee

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Lee

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

PracticalVisionary
Lee

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Lee

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Lee Kuan Yew

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Singapore on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Lee’s birth-night reference starAltairwhite · AquilaAltair, in Aquila. A white star, 76.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Altair →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 24.2° 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.

Lee Kuan Yew at a glance

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Lee Kuan Yew's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 16, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Water Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Lee Kuan Yew was born on September 16, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 22

Dreams at full scale.

Lee Kuan Yew's birth date, September 16, 1923, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.

What stands out in Lee’s chart

Lee’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Lee Kuan Yew, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° 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 opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.2° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.4° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.6° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.6° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.6° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.1° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.4° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.5° orbSun in Virgo · 22°18′☉22°Moon in Sagittarius · 5°19′☽5°Mercury in Libra · 13°47′ · retrograde☿℞13°Venus in Virgo · 23°51′♀23°Mars in Virgo · 9°39′♂9°Jupiter in Scorpio · 15°44′♃15°Saturn in Libra · 19°20′♄19°Uranus in Pisces · 15°18′ · retrograde♅℞15°Neptune in Leo · 19°10′♆19°Pluto in Cancer · 12°14′♇12°

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.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb

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

  • stableJupitertrineUranus0.3° to 0.5° orb

    Lee’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus1.4° to 1.7° orb

    Lee’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb

    Lee’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssextilePluto2.3° to 2.9° orb

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

  • stableUranustrinePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb

    Lee’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb

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

  • stableJupitertrinePluto3.4° to 3.6° orb

    Lee’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus5.3° to 6.0° orb

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn5.5° to 5.6° orb

    Lee’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus6.5° to 7.5° orb

    Lee’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Lee’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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 19°56′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Lee may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 0°21′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Lee is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ♡ ErosGemini 25°37′ (moves 0.79° over the day)

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

    Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Lee is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 6°22′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Lee needing solitude to reset.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 8°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Lee is read as immovable on those points.

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 opposition Saturn 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.7°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.8°
  • Eros square Venus 1.8°

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°).

Lee’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Lee is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Lee’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Venus, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

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.

  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°

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

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Lee’s cards

Every card is computed from September 16, 1923, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

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The Tidal Explorer

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Lee Kuan Yew, 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

Lee’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q131248, 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 Robert D. Ward, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Lee Kuan Yew at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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 Lee Kuan Yew.

Quick answers about Lee Kuan Yew’s chart

What zodiac sign was Lee Kuan Yew?
Lee Kuan Yew was a Virgo: born September 16, 1923, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig.
What was Lee Kuan Yew's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 16, 1923 birth.
What time was Lee Kuan Yew 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 was Lee Kuan Yew's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the September 16, 1923 birth date.
What was Lee Kuan Yew's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 16, 1923 birth date.
Where was Lee Kuan Yew's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Lee Kuan Yew's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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