Lip-Bu Tan
Lip-Bu Tan (born January 1, 1960, Muar, Malaysia), aged 66, is an American businessman.
Lip-Bu Tan’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Lip-Bu
Lip-Bu Tan’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
What Lip-Bu’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on L (3) and closes on P (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 3: tact against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lip-Bu’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
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 1959, 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 Lip-Bu apart
The schooling ran through University of San Francisco.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Piedmont, California, University of San Francisco alumni and Nanyang University alumni.
Mark Walter shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- University of San Francisco
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 10
What the chart says
Lip-Bu, according to the stars
Core essence
Lip-Bu is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Lip-Bu is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Lip-Bu needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Lip-Bu needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Lip-Bu wants to be loved
Lip-Bu 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 Lip-Bu even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Lip-Bu creates
How Lip-Bu 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. Lip-Bu 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: Lip-Bu 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Lip-Bu 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Lip-Bu has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Lip-Bu's birth date. Working below.
Where Lip-Bu sits
Six lines
Lip-Bu’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Lip-Bu Tan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Muar 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 Muar that night
Computed for 2.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Muar was Menkar, in Cetus, 88.1° up.
Of the 95 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Muar sits at 2.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 32° below the horizon, Moon up and 11% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Lip-Bu's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · No Air 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.
Score your own chart →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunPlays the long game. Wins it.
Lip-Bu Tan's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 1, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Pig
Earth PigGenerous to the last coin.
Lip-Bu Tan was born on January 1, 1960, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Lip-Bu Tan's birth date, January 1, 1960, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Lip-Bu’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lip-Bu Tan's date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Lip-Bu Tan combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Lip-Bu’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Aquarius 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
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb
Lip-Bu’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Lip-Bu’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.6° to 1.6° orb
Lip-Bu’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter1.4° to 1.9° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus1.6° to 1.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.2° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.9° to 5.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.4° to 5.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.8° to 7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Lip-Bu’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 24°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 9°25′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 15°57′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 29°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 15°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Saturn 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 0.4°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.3°
Lip-Bu’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury, Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Lip-Bu’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.
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.5°
Born the same day as Lip-Bu
Mark Walter was born on January 1, 1960 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 95 catalog stars stood above Muar, at 2.0°N that night, with Menkar nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Lip-Bu
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Born in Malaysia
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Fellow Capricorn suns
- Christian HarrisAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Sam LaPortaAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Derrick HenryAmerican football player (born 1994)
Born in Pig years
- Myles GarrettAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Poona FordAmerican football defensive tackle
- Coleman SheltonAmerican football player (born 1995)
Also born on January 1
- Alicia Keys1981
- Hailee Steinfeld1996
- Kendrick Lamar1987
- Rivelino1946
- Ludacris1977
- Chad Michael Murray1981
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Fetty WapAmerican rapper and singer
- Summer WalkerAmerican R&B singer
- Carl IcahnAmerican businessman
Other Capricorn Pig charts
- Calvin HarrisScottish electronic music producer and DJ
- Florence PughBritish actress
- VSouth Korean singer, actor and dancer
- Ben ShapiroAmerican conservative political commentator
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- Sebastian KochGerman actor
- Anthony DawsonBritish actor
- Stephen FryBritish comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
- Tim HoltAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Vincent KartheiserAmerican actor
- Jane KrakowskiAmerican actress and singer, comedian
- Donna KelceAmerican banker
From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Lip-Bu’s cards
Computed from January 1, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lip-Bu’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19561225 (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 United States Department of Commerce, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lip-Bu Tan at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lip-Bu Tan.
Quick answers about Lip-Bu Tan’s chart
- How old is Lip-Bu Tan?
- Lip-Bu Tan is 66 years old, born January 1, 1960 in Muar, Malaysia.
- What zodiac sign is Lip-Bu Tan?
- Lip-Bu Tan is a Capricorn: born January 1, 1960, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Lip-Bu Tan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 1, 1960 birth.
- What is Lip-Bu Tan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Lip-Bu Tan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Lip-Bu Tan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lip-Bu Tan's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
