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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rabbit, with 
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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.
Liu’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Liu sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Liu Cixin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Liu’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareMars1.8° to 2.5° orb
Liu’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.9° to 2.2° orb
Liu’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquarePluto2.2° to 3.4° orb
Liu’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.5° to 3.0° orb
Liu’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.9° to 4.0° orb
Liu’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb
Liu’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.8° orb
Liu’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 ℞Pisces 14°54′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Liu absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresVirgo 16°50′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Liu caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 28°43′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Liu is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 4°57′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Liu is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 7°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Liu is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 trine Neptune 1.7°
- Chiron square Venus 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.7°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.9°
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°).
Liu’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Liu 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 Liu’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Liu Cixin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Liu’s cards
Every card is computed from June 23, 1963, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Liu Cixin, 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
Liu’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q607588, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit.
- 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 time was Liu Cixin 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 is Liu Cixin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the June 23, 1963 birth date.
- What is Liu Cixin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 23, 1963 birth date.
- 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.
