The8
The8 (born Xu Minghao; November 7, 1997, Haicheng, China), aged 28, is a Chinese singer and dancer.
The8’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with The8
The8’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
What The8’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Xu Minghao, not the name they published under.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on X (6) and closes on U (3). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
The8’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Crimson · Scarlet
The record
What sets The8 apart
Marie Curie (1867) and Albert Camus (1913) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
The8, according to the stars
Core essence
The8 does not do surface. The core of The8 is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from The8 is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How The8 wants to be loved
The8 wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show The8 you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How The8 creates
How The8 makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. The8 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: The8 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. The8 is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. The8 has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from The8's birth date. Working below.
Where The8 sits
Six lines
The8’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 The8
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Haicheng 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 Haicheng that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Haicheng at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 11.4° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.
Haicheng sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Haicheng at all: they sit past the −49.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 49° below the horizon, Moon up and 46% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Xu Minghao
- Known as
- The8
- Born in
- Haicheng, People's Republic of China
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for The8: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual The8's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 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 →The8 at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
The8's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 7, 1997, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Ox
Fire OxStubborn, and usually right.
The8 was born on November 7, 1997, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
The8's birth date, November 7, 1997, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in The8’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in The8's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- The8 combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
The8’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMoonconjunctionUranus0.1° to 7.2° orb
The8’s feelings and need for freedom act as one.
stableUranussextilePluto0.3° orb
The8’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareJupiter0.8° to 1.7° orb
The8’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.0° to 2.5° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.2° to 1.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.2° to 3.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.8° to 6.3° orb
stableUranusconjunctionNeptune7.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 1.1° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 1.4° to 14.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
The8’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 8°36′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 0°42′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 25°44′ (moves 0.95° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 24°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.1°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.6°
- Eros trine Mars 2.7°
The8’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in The8’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.
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.3°
The8 in SEVENTEEN
Every member’s chart is computed separately from their own birth date. The group page puts them side by side and counts what they share.
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Fellow Scorpio suns
- Simi FehokoAmerican football cornerback
- Zion JohnsonAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Isaac SeumaloAmerican football player (born 1993)
Born in Ox years
- Dick Van DykeAmerican actor and comedian (born 1925)
- Ava SamboraAmerican actress
- Annamarie TendlerAmerican artist and author
Also born on November 7
- Marie Curie1867
- Albert Camus1913
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman1888
- David Guetta1967
- Joni Mitchell1943
- Lisa Su1969
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Jake BoboAmerican football player
- Ollie GordonAmerican football player (born 2004)
- Drake ThomasAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Scorpio Ox charts
- Allyson FelixAmerican track and field athlete
- David FosterCanadian musician, record producer, songwriter
- Carly Rae JepsenCanadian singer (born 1985)
- Dylan McDermottAmerican actor
Other Tidal Scholars
- Narges MohammadiIranian human rights activist (born 1972)
- Malcolm BrowneAmerican photographer and journalist
- John Edward MackAmerican psychiatrist
- Richard WilburAmerican poet
Famous people with Life Path 8
- FelixSouth Korean-Australian rapper and singer (born 2000)
- Wiktoria GąsiewskaPolish actress
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The8’s cards
Computed from November 7, 1997. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
The8’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21824868 (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 Seventeen / Pledis, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by The8.
Quick answers about The8’s chart
- How old is The8?
- The8 is 28 years old, born November 7, 1997 in Haicheng, China.
- What zodiac sign is The8?
- The8 is a Scorpio: born November 7, 1997, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is The8's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 7, 1997 birth.
- What is The8's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is The8's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is The8's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is The8's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
