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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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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.
Wang’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Wang sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes 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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Wang Dulu was born on September 13, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can'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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Wang’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Wang Dulu's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Wang Dulu combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Wang’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Wang Dulu, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Wang’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb
Wang’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.5° to 3.6° orb
Wang’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn2.8° to 4.0° orb
Wang’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.9° to 3.2° orb
Wang’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
Wang’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb
Wang’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb
Wang’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.8° orb
Wang’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 24°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Wang making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 13°54′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Wang caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCancer 14°18′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Wang is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 17°43′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Wang at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Wang that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Wang’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Wang is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Wang’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Grand 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 1.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.8°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Wang Dulu, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Wang’s cards
Every card is computed from September 13, 1909, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Wang Dulu, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Wang’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q704330, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same Wang Dulu at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster.
- 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 time was Wang Dulu born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Wang Dulu's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the September 13, 1909 birth date.
- What was Wang Dulu's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 13, 1909 birth date.
- 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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