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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, Chinese zodiac is 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.

What Nghi’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

6

Soul Urge · being needed

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on N (5) and closes on I (9).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Nghi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1981, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Nghi apart

Nghi Vo took the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 2021, at 40.

The classrooms behind this chart: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Wikipedia's editors put Nghi Vo under Writers from Peoria, Illinois, American queer writers and LGBTQ people from Illinois.

Jay-Z (1969) and Tyra Banks (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Awards
Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2025), Hugo Award for Best Novella (2021) and World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction (2024)
Nominated for
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and Imaginales award for best foreign-language novel
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
5

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. Working below.

Where Nghi sits

Six lines

Nghi’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Peoria that night

Computed for 40.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Peoria was Almach, in Andromeda, 88.1° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Peoria on any night.

Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon up and 55% lit at first quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Peoria, United States
Lives in
Milwaukee

Wikidata records Milwaukee as Nghi Vo's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Nghi Vo: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Nghi's chart is

Chart pattern score

57 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Sagittarius · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all

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.

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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.

What Sagittarius means →

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.

What the Rooster means →

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.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Nghi’s chart

Nghi’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Pisces depending on the hour.

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.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableVenustrineMars2.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.0° to 3.5° orb

  • stableVenussextileUranus3.8° to 4.5° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter4.2° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.6° to 4.7° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.5° to 6.6° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 19°16′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

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

Nghi’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Nghi’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Nghi’s cards

Computed from December 4, 1981. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Storyteller

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

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

The same Nghi Vo at Wikipedia, Instagram and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Nghi Vo's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Nghi Vo's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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