Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949, Shantou, China), aged 77, is an American mathematician from Hong Kong. Yau's honours include Fields medal, Crafoord Prize in Mathematics and Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.
Shing-Tung Yau’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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Shing-Tung Yau’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
Shing-Tung’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Shing-Tung, according to the stars
Core essence
Shing-Tung leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Shing-Tung is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Shing-Tung processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Shing-Tung needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Shing-Tung wants to be loved
Shing-Tung wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Shing-Tung creates
How Shing-Tung makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Shing-Tung builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Shing-Tung 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Shing-Tung is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Shing-Tung gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Shing-Tung's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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Shing-Tung Yau in 15 seconds
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Shing-Tung Yau's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 4, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Shing-Tung Yau was born on April 4, 1949, which falls in a Earth 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 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Shing-Tung Yau's birth date, April 4, 1949, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Shing-Tung’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Shing-Tung Yau's date-only chart is Sun trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Shing-Tung Yau combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Shing-Tung’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Shing-Tung Yau, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Gemini 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.
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Shing-Tung’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrinePluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
Shing-Tung’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.3° to 0.7° orb
Shing-Tung’s affections and drive act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Shing-Tung’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.4° to 3.7° orb
Shing-Tung’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenustrinePluto2.9° to 4.1° orb
Shing-Tung’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb
Shing-Tung’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.1° to 3.9° orb
Shing-Tung’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.2° to 3.4° orb
Shing-Tung’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrinePluto3.6° to 4.4° orb
Shing-Tung’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.7° to 3.9° orb
Shing-Tung’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.0° to 6.1° orb
Shing-Tung’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Shing-Tung’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 ℞Sagittarius 8°56′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Shing-Tung building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresLeo 11°43′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Shing-Tung is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosCapricorn 29°43′ (moves 0.47° 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. Shing-Tung is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 4°22′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Shing-Tung is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 28°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Shing-Tung is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 0.8°
- Ceres trine Venus 1.0°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.3°
- Ceres trine Mars 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.7°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.8°
- Ceres sextile Neptune 2.1°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.3°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.5°
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°).
Shing-Tung’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. ♂ Mars13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Shing-Tung is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Shing-Tung’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 in Aries · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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.
Yod onto Jupiter · Saturn, Uranus, JupiterTwo 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.
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.2°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.0°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Shing-Tung Yau, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Shing-Tung’s cards
Every card is computed from April 4, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Shing-Tung Yau, 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
Shing-Tung’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q334760, 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 National Science Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Shing-Tung Yau’s chart
- How old is Shing-Tung Yau?
- Shing-Tung Yau is 77 years old, born April 4, 1949 in Shantou, China.
- What zodiac sign is Shing-Tung Yau?
- Shing-Tung Yau is an Aries: born April 4, 1949, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- What is Shing-Tung Yau's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 4, 1949 birth.
- What time was Shing-Tung Yau 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 Shing-Tung Yau's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the April 4, 1949 birth date.
- What is Shing-Tung Yau's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 4, 1949 birth date.
- Where is Shing-Tung Yau's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Shing-Tung Yau's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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