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.

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 was Lee Kuan Yew's Life Path number?

Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.

What was Lee Kuan Yew's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.

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.

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, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

Your match with Lee

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

Lee ranked 85th among boys and 290th among girls in 1923, the year of this birth, with 2,359 American boys and 494 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Lee’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · versatility

Soul Urge · independence

Personality · steady, dependable

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

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

Lee’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1923, 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 Lee apart

Amy Poehler (1971) and Fan Bingbing (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship: Singapore
Languages: English, Tamil and Japanese

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. Working below.

Where Lee sits

Six lines

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

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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Singapore that night

Computed for 1.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Singapore at 9 p.m. that evening: Altair of Aquila, within 13.6° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 77 catalog stars were up in all.

From 1.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The Moon was at first quarter, 40% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.

The name and the places

Born in: Singapore

The death is recorded at Singapore in 2015.

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

How unusual Lee's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine

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.

Score your own chart →

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.

What Virgo means →

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.

What the Pig means →

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.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Lee’s chart

The tightest major aspect in Lee Kuan Yew's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
Lee Kuan Yew combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.

Lee’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

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

Tap one to light it on the wheel.

The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

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
stableMarssextilePluto2.3° to 2.9° orb
stableUranustrinePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto3.4° to 3.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus5.3° to 6.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus6.5° to 7.5° orb
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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 19°56′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 0°21′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 25°37′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 6°22′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 8°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

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

Lee’s dominant planets

1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects

Configurations in Lee’s chart

Stellium 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 · 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

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

Lee’s family here

One relative of Lee Kuan Yew also has a chart on AsterNym.

Lee Hsien Loongchild

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Fellow Virgo suns

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All about Virgo →

Born in Pig years

Coleman SheltonAmerican football player (born 1995)
Chris MyarickAmerican football tight end
Ogbonnia OkoronkwoAmerican football player (born 1995)

Year of the Pig →

Also born on September 16

Fellow Yang Water day masters

Jang Won-youngSouth Korean singer
Chelsea HandlerAmerican comedian, actress, author and talk show host
Lee Kun-hee4th and 6th Chairman of the Samsung Group

What a Day Master is →

Other Virgo Pig charts

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Daniel Carleton GajdusekAmerican medical researcher
Drew WeissmanAmerican physician-scientist (born 1959)
Harvey J. AlterAmerican medical researcher

Other Tidal Explorers

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Edmund GwennBritish actor
Andrei OkounkovRussian mathematician
Luis Federico LeloirArgentine biochemist

The Tidal Explorer explained →

Famous people with Life Path 22

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Ugonna OnyensoNigerian basketball player (born 2004)
Aaron GordonAmerican basketball player (born. 1995)

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite

Lee’s cards

Computed from September 16, 1923. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

Western zodiac

Chinese zodiac

Life Path

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

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

The same Lee Kuan Yew 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 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.
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 was Lee Kuan Yew's Life Path number?: Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What was Lee Kuan Yew's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.