Simu Liu
Simu Liu (born April 19, 1989, Harbin, China), aged 37, is a Chinese-Canadian actor and author. Liu is best known for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Kim's Convenience. Liu's honours include Time 100.
Simu Liu’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Earth Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Simu
Simu Liu’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
What Simu’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on S (1) and closes on U (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Simu’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1989, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Simu apart
Kim's Convenience and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. That is the work the name is attached to.
Simu Liu was taught at University of Toronto Schools and Ivey Business School.
Simu Liu was 23 when the work began in 2012.
On Wikipedia the categories read Ivey Business School alumni, Writers from Mississauga and Canadian Buddhists.
Marko Arnautović shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Kim's Convenience and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Educated at
- University of Toronto Schools, Ivey Business School and University of Western Ontario
- Awards
- Time 100 (2022)
- Nominated for
- Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Program or Series and ACTRA Award
- Working from
- 2012
- Citizenship
- Canada and People's Republic of China
- Languages
- English and Mandarin
- Wikipedia editions
- 36
What the chart says
Simu, according to the stars
Core essence
Simu 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 Simu 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, Simu 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 Simu 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 Simu wants to be loved
Simu wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Simu is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Simu creates
How Simu makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Simu creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Simu is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Simu is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Simu scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Simu's birth date. Working below.
Where Simu sits
Six lines
Simu’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Simu Liu
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Harbin 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 Harbin that night
Computed for 45.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Harbin at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
Harbin sits at 45.8°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −44.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon up and 98% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Harbin, China
- Lives in
- Toronto
Wikidata records Toronto as Simu Liu's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Simu Liu: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Simu's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Simu Liu at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Simu Liu's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 19, 1989, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakePrivate by design.
Simu Liu was born on April 19, 1989, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Simu Liu's birth date, April 19, 1989, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Simu’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Simu Liu's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Simu Liu combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Simu’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Libra 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
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 1.2° orb
Simu’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Simu’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 5.9° orb
Simu’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.3° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.9° to 2.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune1.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableVenustrineUranus2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.5° to 3.8° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.8° to 6.7° orb
stableUranusconjunctionNeptune7.1° orb
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Simu’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 2°36′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 4°15′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 21°45′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 21°16′
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 7°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Venus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.8°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.0°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 1.6°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.7°
Simu’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Simu’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.
- Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.7°
Born the same day as Simu
Marko Arnautović was born on April 19, 1989 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Harbin, at 45.8°N, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Simu
Other screenwriters
- Max Thieriot1988
- Zach King1990
- Shia LaBeouf1986
- Bonnie Wright1991
- Taeyeon1989
- Quinta Brunson1989
Born in China
- Liang WenfengChinese businessman
- Colin HuangChinese entrepreneur, founder of Pinduoduo
- Ma HuatengChinese internet entrepreneur
- Liu XiaoboChinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist
- Liu WenChinese model
- NingningChinese singer
More charts like Simu’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Kento ShiogaiJapanese footballer (born 2005)
- Quando RondoAmerican rapper
- Taina WilliamsInternet personality
Born in Snake years
- Ty SimpkinsAmerican actor
- Inde NavarretteAmerican actress (born 2001)
- Miyū YamashitaJapanese professional golfer
Also born on April 19
- Maria Sharapova1987
- Kate Hudson1979
- James Franco1978
- Mukesh Ambani1957
- Rivaldo1972
- Gustavo Petro1960
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Virgil van DijkDutch association football player
- Joni MitchellCanadian musician
- Pierre-Emerick AubameyangGabonese-French footballer
Other Aries Snake charts
- Brooke RaboutouAmerican sport climber
- Max von SydowSwedish-French actor
- Bruno GanzSwiss actor
- Sergio BustricItalian actor (1953-)
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Fred ZinnemannAustrian film director
- Lauren BacallAmerican actress
- Yann MartelCanadian writer
- Edward WittenAmerican theoretical physicist
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Noah EmmerichAmerican actor
- François CluzetFrench actor
- Halit AkçatepeTurkish actor
From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Simu’s cards
Computed from April 19, 1989. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Simu’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q24004849 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Simu Liu at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Simu Liu.
Quick answers about Simu Liu’s chart
- How old is Simu Liu?
- Simu Liu is 37 years old, born April 19, 1989 in Harbin, China.
- What zodiac sign is Simu Liu?
- Simu Liu is an Aries: born April 19, 1989, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Simu Liu's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 19, 1989 birth.
- What is Simu Liu's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Simu Liu's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Simu Liu's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Simu Liu's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
