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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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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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.

What Shing-Tung’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

22

Expression · building at scale

7

Soul Urge · understanding

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on S (1) and closes on G (7). The value it repeats most is 7, which numerology reads as analysis.

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

Shing-Tung’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Shing-Tung apart

Maya Angelou (1928) and Robert Downey Jr. (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Shing-Tung sits

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Intimate circleWide network
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
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You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
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You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
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You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shantou on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Shing-Tung’s birth-night reference starAlgiebawarm orange · LeoAlgieba, in Leo. A warm orange star, 80.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algieba →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 26.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over Shantou that night

Computed for 23.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Shantou at 9 p.m. that evening: Algieba of Leo, within 9.9° of the exact zenith.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 23.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The Moon, 30% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.

How unusual Shing-Tung's chart is

Chart pattern score

73 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Aries · Yod onto Jupiter · 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.

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Shing-Tung Yau in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

Runs 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.

What Aries means →

Earth Ox

Stubborn, and usually right.

Shing-Tung Yau was born on April 4, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 4

The 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.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Shing-Tung’s chart

Shing-Tung’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.2° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.3° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 1.5° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.7° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3° orbSun in Aries · 14°04′☉14°Moon in Gemini · 15°32′☽15°Mercury in Aries · 4°41′☿4°Venus in Aries · 10°46′♀10°Mars in Aries · 10°16′♂10°Jupiter in Capricorn · 28°57′♃28°Saturn in Leo · 29°57′ · retrograde♄℞29°Uranus in Gemini · 26°54′♅26°Neptune in Libra · 13°48′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Leo · 14°16′ · retrograde♇℞14°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • 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

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.4° to 3.7° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto2.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus3.0° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.1° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.2° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto3.6° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars3.7° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.0° to 6.1° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 8°56′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 11°43′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 29°43′ (moves 0.47° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 4°22′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 28°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Shing-Tung’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Shing-Tung’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, the shape it makesYod 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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Shing-Tung’s cards

Computed from April 4, 1949. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Pioneer

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

4 · Architect

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Shing-Tung’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q334760 (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 National Science Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Shing-Tung Yau at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Shing-Tung Yau.

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.
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 is Shing-Tung Yau's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Shing-Tung Yau's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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