Lei Jun
Lei Jun (born December 16, 1969, Xiantao, China), aged 56, is a Chinese businessman, cofounder and CEO of Xiaomi. Jun is best known for Xiaomi. Jun's honours include 100 Outstanding Private Entrepreneurs in the 40 Years of Reform and Opening-up.
Lei Jun’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Lei
Lei Jun’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Lei in the U.S.?
#16279
US rank in 2025
~683
Americans share it since 1937
1960
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1969, Lei came 3,154th, carried by 19 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lei’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on L (3) and closes on I (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lei’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1969, 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 Lei apart
What keeps Lei Jun in print: Xiaomi.
Training came by way of Wuhan University.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Lei Jun: Delegates to the 12th National People's Congress, Businesspeople from Hubei and People from Xiantao.
The same date carries Adam Riess. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Xiaomi
- Educated at
- Wuhan University
- Citizenship
- People's Republic of China
- Languages
- Chinese
- Wikipedia editions
- 37
What the chart says
Lei, according to the stars
Core essence
Lei is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Lei is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Lei wants to be loved
Lei wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Lei and watch them fall for you again.
How Lei creates
How Lei makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Lei creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Lei is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Lei is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Lei slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Lei's birth date. Working below.
Where Lei sits
Six lines
Lei’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Lei Jun
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Xiantao 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 Xiantao that night
Computed for 30.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Xiantao at 9 p.m. that evening: Hamal of Aries, within 7.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 30.4°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 −59.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 56% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Xiantao, China
- Lives in
- Beijing
Wikidata records Beijing as Lei Jun's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Lei Jun: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Lei's chart is
Chart pattern score
48 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · 3 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Lei Jun at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Lei Jun's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 16, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Lei Jun was born on December 16, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Lei Jun's birth date, December 16, 1969, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Lei’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lei Jun's date-only chart is Mars trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Lei Jun combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Lei’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
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
stableMarstrineJupiter0.2° to 0.8° orb
Lei’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.7° to 1.4° orb
Lei’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.9° to 2.4° orb
Lei’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.6° to 2.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableSunsquarePluto2.8° to 3.8° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 4.8° to 17.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 6.2° to 19.7° 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.
Lei’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 2°22′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 15°39′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 4°33′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 3°29′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 0°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.5°
- Eros opposition Saturn 2.2°
Lei’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Lei’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 semi-square Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.0°
Born the same day as Lei
Adam Riess was born on December 16, 1969 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 30.4°N, the sky above Xiantao stops at −59.6° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Rooster years
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- Zach GalifianakisAmerican actor and comedian
- Fran DrescherAmerican actress
Also born on December 16
- Arthur C. Clarke1917
- Zara Larsson1997
- Krysten Ritter1981
- Theo James1984
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Henry S. TaylorAmerican poet
- Vasilisa StepanenkoUkrainian journalist, producer, presenter
- Bill MarimowAmerican investigative reporter
Other Sagittarius Rooster charts
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- Tim PatrickAmerican football wide receiver
- Sergio de LarreaSpanish basketball player (born 2005)
- Carter BryantAmerican basketball player
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Benson BooneAmerican singer
- Lee Jae-yongSouth Korean business executive
- RossaIndonesian singer and actress
- Brooklyn BeckhamEnglish model and photographer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Hannes AlfvénSwedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics
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- Otto SternGerman-American physicist
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Lei’s cards
Computed from December 16, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lei’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q9000717 (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 China News Service, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lei Jun at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Lei Jun’s chart
- How old is Lei Jun?
- Lei Jun is 56 years old, born December 16, 1969 in Xiantao, China.
- What zodiac sign is Lei Jun?
- Lei Jun is a Sagittarius: born December 16, 1969, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Lei Jun's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 16, 1969 birth.
- What is Lei Jun's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Lei Jun's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Lei Jun's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lei Jun's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
