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Wang Dulu

Wang Dulu (born September 13, 1909, Beijing, China; died 1977), was a Chinese wuxia author, creator of Crane Iron Pentalogy series. Dulu is best remembered for Crane Iron Pentalogy and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Dulu's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Wang Dulu’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Wang Dulu’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Explorer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

What Wang’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

7

Soul Urge · understanding

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on W (5) and closes on G (7). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Wang’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta

The record

What sets Wang apart

Roald Dahl (1916) and Niall Horan (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Wang, according to the stars

Core essence

Wang notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Wang is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Wang wants to be loved

Wang wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Wang gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Wang creates

How Wang makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Wang creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Wang is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Wang 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means Wang 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 Wang's birth date. Working below.

Where Wang sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Wang

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Wang

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

PrivateExpressive
Wang

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Wang

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Wang

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Wang

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

Dedicate a star to Wang Dulu

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

Wang’s birth-night reference starSadryellow-white · CygnusSadr, in Cygnus. A yellow-white star, 88.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Sadr →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 20.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

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

The sky over Beijing that night

Computed for 39.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Beijing at 9 p.m. that evening: Sadr of Cygnus, within 1.1° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 39.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Beijing at all: they sit past the −50.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 28° down.

How unusual Wang's chart is

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

Grand cross · 1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde

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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Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Wang Dulu's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 13, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Earth Rooster

Says what everyone was thinking.

Wang Dulu was born on September 13, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Wang Dulu's birth date, September 13, 1909, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Wang’s chart

Wang’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.8° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.4° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.5° orbUranus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.7° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.5° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.1° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.1° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.1° orbSun in Virgo · 19°43′☉19°Moon in Virgo · 3°34′☽3°Mercury in Libra · 15°50′☿15°Venus in Libra · 25°24′♀25°Mars in Aries · 3°53′ · retrograde♂℞3°Jupiter in Virgo · 23°48′♃23°Saturn in Aries · 21°59′ · retrograde♄℞21°Uranus in Capricorn · 17°12′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Cancer · 18°54′♆18°Pluto in Gemini · 26°51′♇26°

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

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.8° to 1.9° orb

    Wang’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenustrinePluto0.9° to 2.0° orb

    Wang’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.7° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune2.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn2.8° to 4.0° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.9° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus4.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed0 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 24°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 13°54′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 14°18′ (moves 0.89° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 17°43′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Venus 0.9°
  • Eros square Mercury 1.5°
  • Ceres square Mercury 1.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.9°
  • Chiron trine Pluto 2.4°
  • Chiron sextile Saturn 2.5°
  • Eros opposition Uranus 2.9°

Wang’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Wang’s chart

  • grand cross, the shape it makesGrand cross · Uranus, Neptune, Mercury, SaturnTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.8°
  • Sun quincunx Saturn 2.3°

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Wang’s cards

Computed from September 13, 1909. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Explorer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Wang’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q704330 (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.

The same Wang Dulu at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Wang Dulu.

Quick answers about Wang Dulu’s chart

What zodiac sign was Wang Dulu?
Wang Dulu was a Virgo: born September 13, 1909, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What was Wang Dulu's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 13, 1909 birth.
What was Wang Dulu's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Wang Dulu's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Wang Dulu's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Wang Dulu's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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