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Nghi Vo

Nghi Vo (born December 4, 1981, Peoria, United States), aged 44, is an American author. Vo's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella, Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Ignyte Award for Best Novella.

Nghi Vo’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Nghi Vo’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Storyteller

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

Nghi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

8 · 5 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia

Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Nghi, according to the stars

Core essence

Nghi is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Nghi 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Nghi is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Nghi needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Nghi wants to be loved

Nghi 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 Nghi you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Nghi creates

How Nghi makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Nghi creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Nghi 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Nghi 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Nghi 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 Nghi's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Nghi sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Nghi

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Nghi

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Nghi

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Nghi

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Nghi

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Nghi

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Nghi Vo

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Peoria on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Nghi’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 88.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 54.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Truth first, tact later.

Nghi Vo's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 4, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Metal Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Nghi Vo was born on December 4, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Nghi Vo's birth date, December 4, 1981, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in Nghi’s chart

Nghi’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Nghi Vo, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.4° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 0.8° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 2.5° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.3° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 4.1° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.1° orbSun in Sagittarius · 12°31′☉12°Moon in Pisces · 13°20′☽13°Mercury in Sagittarius · 9°15′☿9°Venus in Capricorn · 27°01′♀27°Mars in Virgo · 24°31′♂24°Jupiter in Scorpio · 1°28′♃1°Saturn in Libra · 19°30′♄19°Uranus in Sagittarius · 1°07′♅1°Neptune in Sagittarius · 24°07′♆24°Pluto in Libra · 26°02′♇26°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableSunsquareMoon0.1° to 6.9° orb

    Nghi’s core identity grinds against their feelings.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune0.2° to 0.6° orb

    Nghi’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussquarePluto0.6° to 1.3° orb

    Nghi’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb

    Nghi’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrineMars2.4° to 2.6° orb

    Nghi’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.0° to 3.5° orb

    Nghi’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussextileUranus3.8° to 4.5° orb

    Nghi’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter4.2° to 4.8° orb

    Nghi’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.6° to 4.7° orb

    Nghi’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto5.4° to 5.5° orb

    Nghi’s growth and depths act as one.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.5° to 6.6° orb

    Nghi’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Nghi’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 ℞Taurus 19°16′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Nghi building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 28°16′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Nghi is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

  • ♡ Eros ℞Taurus 14°09′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Nghi wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 8°11′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Nghi at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 7°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Nghi leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

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.

  • Hygiea trine Mercury 1.1°
  • Ceres square Venus 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.2°

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°).

Nghi’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. 1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Nghi is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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 Nghi’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

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 semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 1.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nghi Vo, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Nghi’s cards

Every card is computed from December 4, 1981, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

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Strength

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The Radiant Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Nghi Vo, 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

Nghi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104038379, 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 ClearLight602, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Nghi Vo at Wikipedia, Instagram and X.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nghi Vo.

Quick answers about Nghi Vo’s chart

How old is Nghi Vo?
Nghi Vo is 44 years old, born December 4, 1981 in Peoria, United States.
What zodiac sign is Nghi Vo?
Nghi Vo is a Sagittarius: born December 4, 1981, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster.
What is Nghi Vo's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 4, 1981 birth.
What time was Nghi Vo 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 Nghi Vo's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the December 4, 1981 birth date.
What is Nghi Vo's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 4, 1981 birth date.
Where is Nghi Vo's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Nghi Vo's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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