Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born January 15, 1974, Fremantle, Australia), aged 52, is an Australian illustrator, writer, and animated filmmaker (born 1974). Tan is best known for The Lost Thing, The Arrival and The Red Tree. Tan's honours include Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and Ditmar Award.
Shaun Tan’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Ox, with 
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Shaun Tan’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Shaun in the U.S.?
#1956
US rank in 2025
~73,610
Americans share it since 1880
1978
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Shaun’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Shaun, according to the stars
Core essence
Shaun is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Shaun is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Shaun cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Shaun needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Shaun wants to be loved
Shaun wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Shaun be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Shaun creates
How Shaun 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. Shaun 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: Shaun is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Shaun 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 Shaun leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Shaun is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Shaun's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Shaun Tan's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 15, 1974, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Shaun Tan was born on January 15, 1974, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Shaun Tan's birth date, January 15, 1974, 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 Shaun’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Shaun Tan's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Six of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Water.
- Shaun Tan combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Shaun’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Shaun Tan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° Libra 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.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.5° orb
Shaun’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareMars0.0° to 0.7° orb
Shaun’s affections grind against their drive.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.1° to 0.6° orb
Shaun’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrinePluto1.4° to 1.9° orb
Shaun’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.8° to 1.9° orb
Shaun’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
Shaun’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareUranus2.5° to 3.5° orb
Shaun’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.4° to 4.0° orb
Shaun’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Shaun’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.
⚷ ChironAries 16°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Shaun may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 25°15′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Shaun caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCapricorn 17°25′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Shaun is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaPisces 5°50′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Shaun needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Shaun is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Ceres conjunction Sun 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.4°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.9°
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°).
Shaun’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. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Shaun is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Shaun’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.
Yod onto Mars · Neptune, Pluto, MarsTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Shaun Tan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Shaun
Rachel Roy was born on January 15, 1974 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Shaun’s cards
Every card is computed from January 15, 1974, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Shaun Tan, 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
Shaun’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q588933, 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 Stefan Tell, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Shaun Tan at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Shaun Tan.
Quick answers about Shaun Tan’s chart
- How old is Shaun Tan?
- Shaun Tan is 52 years old, born January 15, 1974 in Fremantle, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Shaun Tan?
- Shaun Tan is a Capricorn: born January 15, 1974, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox.
- What is Shaun Tan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 15, 1974 birth.
- What time was Shaun Tan 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 Shaun Tan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 15, 1974 birth date.
- What is Shaun Tan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 15, 1974 birth date.
- Where is Shaun Tan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Shaun Tan's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
