Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li (born November 4, 1972, Beijing, China), aged 53, is a Chinese American writer. Li is best known for Kinder Than Solitude, The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Li's honours include O. Henry Award, Guardian First Book Award and Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
Yiyun Li’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rat, with 
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Yiyun Li’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
Yiyun’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Yiyun, according to the stars
Core essence
Yiyun does not do surface. The core of Yiyun 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 Yiyun is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Yiyun 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 Yiyun 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 Yiyun wants to be loved
Yiyun 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. Yiyun gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Yiyun creates
How Yiyun 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. Yiyun 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: Yiyun is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Yiyun is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
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. Yiyun fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Yiyun's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Yiyun Li at a glance
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Yiyun Li's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 4, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Yiyun Li was born on November 4, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Yiyun Li's birth date, November 4, 1972, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Yiyun’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yiyun Li's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Venus, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Yiyun Li combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Yiyun’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Yiyun Li, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 27° Libra 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.
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.0° to 6.9° orb
Yiyun’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb
Yiyun’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMoonconjunctionUranus0.1° to 6.9° orb
Yiyun’s feelings and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.1° to 0.2° orb
Yiyun’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.3° to 1.4° orb
Yiyun’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.4° to 1.6° orb
Yiyun’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.4° to 0.5° orb
Yiyun’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
Yiyun’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.1° to 2.1° orb
Yiyun’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.2° to 2.4° orb
Yiyun’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.8° to 2.4° orb
Yiyun’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
Yiyun’s growth grinds against their depths.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Yiyun’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 ℞Aries 13°55′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Yiyun may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLibra 29°07′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Yiyun is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosAquarius 24°20′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Yiyun is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 11°03′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Yiyun is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 28°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Yiyun is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Eros trine Mars 2.1°
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°).
Yiyun’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. ♀ Venus9 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Yiyun is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Yiyun’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.
Stellium in Libra · Venus, Mars, Uranus, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Yiyun Li, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Yiyun
2 other people here were born on November 4, 1972, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Yiyun’s cards
Every card is computed from November 4, 1972, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Yiyun Li, 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
Yiyun’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q460088, 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.
Portrait by Librairie Mollat, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Yiyun Li 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Yiyun Li.
Quick answers about Yiyun Li’s chart
- How old is Yiyun Li?
- Yiyun Li is 53 years old, born November 4, 1972 in Beijing, China.
- What zodiac sign is Yiyun Li?
- Yiyun Li is a Scorpio: born November 4, 1972, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
- What is Yiyun Li's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 4, 1972 birth.
- What time was Yiyun Li 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 is Yiyun Li's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the November 4, 1972 birth date.
- What is Yiyun Li's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 4, 1972 birth date.
- Where is Yiyun Li's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Yiyun Li's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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