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Tenzin Gyatso

Tenzin Gyatso (born July 6, 1935, Taktser, China), aged 91 is a 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibetans.

Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935) served as the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibetans. Gyatso has held office as National People's Congress deputy. Gyatso's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Order of the Smile and Congressional Gold Medal.

Tenzin Gyatso’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Tenzin Gyatso’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Pioneer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Tenzin in the U.S.?

#2254

US rank in 2025

~2,906

Americans share it since 1992

2014

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Tenzin falls under that line for 1935. Its peak came in 2014, and 2,906 Americans have carried it since 1992.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Tenzin’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

3

Soul Urge · being heard

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on T (2) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Tenzin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

22 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green

The record

What sets Tenzin apart

George W. Bush (1946) and Sylvester Stallone (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Tenzin, according to the stars

Core essence

Tenzin feels the room before entering it. The core of Tenzin 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 Tenzin, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Tenzin is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Tenzin needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Tenzin wants to be loved

Tenzin wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Tenzin openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Tenzin creates

How Tenzin makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Tenzin creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Tenzin is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Tenzin is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Tenzin fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Tenzin's birth date. Working below.

Where Tenzin sits

Six lines

Tenzin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Tenzin

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tenzin

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

PrivateExpressive
Tenzin

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Tenzin

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Tenzin

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Tenzin

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Tenzin’s birth-night reference starIzarwarm orange · BoötesIzar, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 81° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Izar →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 22.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Taktser that night

Computed for 36.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Taktser at 9 p.m. that evening: Izar of Boötes, within 9.0° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 36.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −53.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 28% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.

How unusual Tenzin's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

Grand trine

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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Tenzin Gyatso in 15 seconds

Cancer Sun

Guards the people, guards the past.

Tenzin Gyatso's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 6, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Wood Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

Tenzin Gyatso was born on July 6, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 22

Structure for the many.

Tenzin Gyatso's birth date, July 6, 1935, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Tenzin’s chart

Tenzin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.3° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 0.4° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.7° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.2° orbSaturn faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.2° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 2.7° orbSun in Cancer · 13°10′☉13°Moon in Virgo · 12°46′☽12°Mercury in Gemini · 25°35′☿25°Venus in Leo · 28°29′♀28°Mars in Libra · 18°23′♂18°Jupiter in Scorpio · 13°28′ · retrograde♃℞13°Saturn in Pisces · 10°03′ · retrograde♄℞10°Uranus in Taurus · 4°59′♅4°Neptune in Virgo · 12°17′♆12°Pluto in Cancer · 25°16′♇25°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Tenzin’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 6.4° orb

    Tenzin’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.4° to 1.3° orb

    Tenzin’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune1.2° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineSaturn2.6° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus2.6° to 3.2° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn3.4° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars5.0° to 5.5° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus6.1° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 6.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Tenzin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 12°60′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 22°54′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 8°27′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 4°45′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 9°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.2°
  • Chiron square Neptune 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.8°
  • Eros conjunction Saturn 1.6°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 2.7°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.9°

Tenzin’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Tenzin’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°

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Tenzin’s cards

Computed from July 6, 1935. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Pioneer

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Tenzin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17293 (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 Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Tenzin Gyatso at Wikipedia, fr.dalailama.com, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tenzin Gyatso.

Quick answers about Tenzin Gyatso’s chart

How old is Tenzin Gyatso?
Tenzin Gyatso is 91 years old, born July 6, 1935 in Taktser, China.
What zodiac sign is Tenzin Gyatso?
Tenzin Gyatso is a Cancer: born July 6, 1935, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is Tenzin Gyatso's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 6, 1935 birth.
What is Tenzin Gyatso's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What is Tenzin Gyatso's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Tenzin Gyatso's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Tenzin Gyatso's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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