Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin (born June 23, 1963, Beijing, China), aged 63, is a Chinese science fiction writer. Cixin is best known for Ball Lightning, Hold Up the Sky and The Rural Teacher. Cixin's honours include Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work.
Liu Cixin’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Water Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Liu
Liu Cixin’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
What Liu’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on L (3) and closes on U (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Liu’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Liu apart
Alan Turing (1912) and Zinedine Zidane (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Liu, according to the stars
Core essence
Liu feels the room before entering it. The core of Liu is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Liu, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Liu wants to be loved
Liu wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Liu like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Liu creates
How Liu 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. Liu 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: Liu is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Liu is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Liu 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 Liu's birth date. Working below.
Where Liu sits
Six lines
Liu’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Liu Cixin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Beijing 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 Beijing that night
Computed for 39.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Beijing at 9 p.m. that evening: Izar of Boötes, within 12.7° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 39.9°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 −50.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 6% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 11° down.
How unusual Liu's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Liu Cixin's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 23, 1963, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Rabbit
Water RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Liu Cixin was born on June 23, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Liu Cixin's birth date, June 23, 1963, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Liu’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Liu Cixin's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, 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.
- Liu Cixin combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Liu’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 0.6° orb
Liu’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquarePluto0.0° to 1.4° orb
Liu’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.3° to 0.9° orb
Liu’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileUranus0.6° to 1.5° orb
stableVenussquareMars1.8° to 2.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.9° to 2.2° orb
stableVenussquarePluto2.2° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune2.5° to 3.0° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter2.9° to 4.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.3° to 14.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Liu’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 14°54′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 16°50′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 28°43′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 4°57′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 7°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.7°
- Chiron square Venus 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.7°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.9°
Liu’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Liu’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.
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.2°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
More people like Liu
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Also born on June 23
- Alan Turing1912
- Zinedine Zidane1972
- Melissa Rauch1980
- Lee Jae-yong1968
- Clarence Thomas1948
- Selma Blair1972
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- PedriSpanish association football player
- Kate MossEnglish model and businesswoman
- Mae JemisonAmerican doctor and NASA astronaut
Other Cancer Rabbit charts
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- Anjelica HustonAmerican actress (born 1951)
- Linda CardelliniAmerican actress (b. 1975)
- Judy GreerAmerican actress
Other Radiant Diplomats
- Pierce BrosnanIrish actor
- Halldór LaxnessIcelandic author
- Olga TokarczukPolish writer and activist
- Winona RyderAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 3
- George DillonAmerican poet
- Tom ReissAmerican author, historian, and journalist (b. 1964)
- Laurel Thatcher UlrichAmerican historian
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Liu’s cards
Computed from June 23, 1963. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Liu’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q607588 (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 opacity from Chicago, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Liu Cixin at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Liu Cixin.
Quick answers about Liu Cixin’s chart
- How old is Liu Cixin?
- Liu Cixin is 63 years old, born June 23, 1963 in Beijing, China.
- What zodiac sign is Liu Cixin?
- Liu Cixin is a Cancer: born June 23, 1963, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Liu Cixin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 23, 1963 birth.
- What is Liu Cixin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Liu Cixin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Liu Cixin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Liu Cixin's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
