Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (born July 12, 1998, Toronto, Canada), aged 28, is a Canadian basketball player (born 1998). Gilgeous-Alexander has played for Oklahoma City Thunder, Los Angeles Clippers and Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball. Gilgeous-Alexander's honours include Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award, NBA Most Valuable Player Award and Northern Star Award.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Tiger, with 
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Shai in the U.S.?
#1032
US rank in 2025
~4,340
Americans share it since 1880
2023
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Shai’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Shai, according to the stars
Core essence
Shai feels the room before entering it. The core of Shai 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 Shai, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Shai wants to be loved
Shai 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 Shai like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Shai creates
How Shai makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Shai creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Shai is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Shai is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Shai leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Shai does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Shai's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Shai 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 12, 1998, 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.
Earth Tiger
Earth TigerCourage before caution.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was born on July 12, 1998, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's birth date, July 12, 1998, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Shai’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Shai’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Aquarius or 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.
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.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.3° to 1.9° orb
Shai’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb
Shai’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
Shai’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.1° to 5.3° orb
Shai’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
Shai’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareJupiter5.8° to 7.0° orb
Shai’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMarssquareJupiter5.9° to 6.6° orb
Shai’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.6° to 14.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 5.4° to 18.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Shai’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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 12°25′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has Shai carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresTaurus 24°50′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Shai is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosScorpio 16°17′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Shai is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCancer 20°21′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Shai is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 23°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Shai that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Eros square Mercury 0.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.3°
- Chiron square Uranus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.8°
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°).
Shai’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. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Shai is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Shai’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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Shai’s cards
Every card is computed from July 12, 1998, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, 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
Shai’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q32860369, 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 Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 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 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
Quick answers about Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s chart
- How old is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander?
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is 28 years old, born July 12, 1998 in Toronto, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander?
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is a Cancer: born July 12, 1998, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Tiger.
- What is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 12, 1998 birth.
- What time was Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 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.
- How tall is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander?
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 12, 1998 birth date.
- What is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 12, 1998 birth date.
- Where is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
