Mo Yan
Mo Yan (born February 17, 1955, Gaomi, China), aged 71, is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter. Yan is best known for The Herbivorous Family, Pow! and Sandalwood Death. Yan's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize and International Nonino Prize.
Mo Yan’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Mo Yan
Mo Yan’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
What Mo Yan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on M (4) and closes on O (6).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mo Yan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
The record
What sets Mo Yan apart
Michael Jordan (1963) and Paris Hilton (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Mo Yan, according to the stars
Core essence
Mo Yan is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Mo Yan is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Mo Yan is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Mo Yan needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Mo Yan wants to be loved
Mo Yan wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Mo Yan you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Mo Yan creates
How Mo Yan makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Mo Yan creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Mo Yan is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Mo Yan 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Mo Yan gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Mo Yan's birth date. Working below.
Where Mo Yan sits
Six lines
Mo Yan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 Mo Yan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Gaomi 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 Gaomi that night
Computed for 36.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Castor stood nearest the zenith over Gaomi at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.6° above the horizon in Gemini.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
Gaomi sits at 36.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Gaomi at all: they sit past the −53.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 25% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.
How unusual Mo's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · Five planets retrograde · 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Mo Yan's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 17, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Mo Yan was born on February 17, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Mo Yan's birth date, February 17, 1955, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Mo Yan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mo Yan's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Mo Yan combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Mo Yan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Sagittarius 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
stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
Mo Yan’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.0° to 0.1° orb
Mo Yan’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMoontrineMars0.1° to 5.9° orb
Mo Yan’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareUranus0.5° to 1.3° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto1.7° to 2.7° orb
stableMarstrinePluto1.7° to 2.4° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter2.0° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.1° to 3.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.3° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Mo Yan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 1°43′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 5°58′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 9°02′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 20°07′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°31′ (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 Sun 0.2°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.0°
Mo Yan’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars8 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 6 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Mo Yan’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Mars, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 2.4°
More people like Mo Yan
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More charts like Mo Yan’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- The WeekndCanadian singer and songwriter
- Laura DernAmerican actress and producer
- Billie Joe ArmstrongAmerican rock musician
Born in Goat years
- Joe LockeManx actor
- Travis HunterAmerican football player (born 2003)
- Alex ConsaniAmerican model and social media personality
Also born on February 17
- Michael Jordan1963
- Paris Hilton1981
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt1981
- Bonnie Wright1991
- Denise Richards1971
- Jensen Huang1963
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Melissa RiversAmerican actress
- Sara RamirezMexican-American actor and singer
- Catherine O'HaraCanadian-American actress
Other Aquarius Goat charts
- Forrest GanderPoet, essayist, novelist, critic, translator (born 1956)
- Eric FonerAmerican historian (born 1943)
- Josh FriedmanAmerican screenwriter
- Michel duCilleAmerican photojournalist
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Leonor, Princess of Asturias38th princess of Asturias and heiress to the Spanish throne
- CafuBrazilian association football player
- Ricky GervaisBritish comedian
- Dannii MinogueAustralian singer and actress
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Ty FranckAmerican science fiction writer (1969-)
- Marjorie LiuAmerican writer
- Dan SimmonsAmerican novelist
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Mo Yan’s cards
Computed from February 17, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mo Yan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q8998 (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 Johannes Kolfhaus, Gymn. Marienthal, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mo Yan 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 Mo Yan.
Quick answers about Mo Yan’s chart
- How old is Mo Yan?
- Mo Yan is 71 years old, born February 17, 1955 in Gaomi, China.
- What zodiac sign is Mo Yan?
- Mo Yan is an Aquarius: born February 17, 1955, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Mo Yan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 17, 1955 birth.
- What is Mo Yan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Mo Yan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Mo Yan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Mo Yan's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
