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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Shai
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 1968
2023
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1998, Shai came 2,687th among girls and 3,004th among boys, carried by 51 American girls and 27 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Shai’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on S (1) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Shai’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Shai apart
Pablo Neruda (1904) and Vinícius Júnior (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Shai sits
Six lines
Shai’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Toronto 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 Toronto that night
Computed for 43.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaid stood nearest the zenith over Toronto at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.5° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 43.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −46.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Toronto on any night.
The Moon, 87% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 0° below the horizon.
How unusual Shai's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 4° Aquarius or Pisces 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
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.8° to 7.0° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter5.9° to 6.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 12°25′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 24°50′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 16°17′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 20°21′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 23°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mercury 0.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.3°
- Chiron square Uranus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.8°
Shai’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Shai’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Shai
Other basketball players
- Davion Mitchell1998
- Desmond Bane1998
- Quenton Jackson1998
- Markelle Fultz1998
- Trae Young1998
- Austin Reaves1998
Born in Canada
- Tavius RobinsonAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Benjamin St-JusteAmerican football players from Canada
- Gage MunroeCanadian actor
- Jamal MurrayCanadian basketball player (born 1997)
- Vladimir Guerrero Jr.Canadian-Dominican baseball player (born 1999)
- Neville GallimoreCanadian football player (born 1997)
More charts like Shai’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Shirley Ann GrauAmerican writer
- Susan GlaspellAmerican writer
- John StrohmeyerAmerican journalist
Born in Tiger years
- Darrin BellAmerican editorial cartoonist and comic strip creator
- Charles SimicSerbian born American poet
- Doug WrightAmerican playwright and screenwriter (born 1962)
Also born on July 12
- Pablo Neruda1904
- Vinícius Júnior2000
- Tupou VI of Tonga1959
- Phoebe Tonkin1989
- Hilary Knight1989
- Bill Cosby1937
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Karan BrarAmerican actor
- Bea MillerAmerican singer
- Chandler RiggsAmerican actor
Other Cancer Tiger charts
- Rob DyrdekAmerican skateboarder
- Anthony EdwardsAmerican actor
- Joel EdgertonAustralian actor
- Colton HaynesAmerican actor and model
Other Gilded Strategists
- George AbbottAmerican writer and director
- Jonathan WeinerAmerican nonfiction writer, Professor of Journalism
- Louis KilzerAmerican journalist and essayist
- Ola Elizabeth WinslowAmerican colonial historian, professor of English
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Kaley CuocoAmerican actress and producer
- Enzo FerrariItalian racing driver and entrepreneur
- Nicholas HoultEnglish actor
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Shai’s cards
Computed from July 12, 1998. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Shai’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q32860369 (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 Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
