Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955, Paris, France), aged 70, is an American cellist (born 1955). Ma's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Emmy Award and Praemium Imperiale.
Yo-Yo Ma’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Goat, with 
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Yo-Yo Ma’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Strategist
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
Yo-Yo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Yo-Yo, according to the stars
Core essence
Yo-Yo makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Yo-Yo is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Yo-Yo wants to be loved
Yo-Yo 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. Yo-Yo gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Yo-Yo creates
How Yo-Yo makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Yo-Yo creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Yo-Yo is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Yo-Yo is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Yo-Yo leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Yo-Yo channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Yo-Yo's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Yo-Yo sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Yo-Yo Ma's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 7, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Yo-Yo Ma was born on October 7, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Yo-Yo Ma's birth date, October 7, 1955, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Yo-Yo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yo-Yo Ma's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Yo-Yo Ma combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Strategist.
Yo-Yo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Yo-Yo Ma, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.5° orb
Yo-Yo’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.6° to 1.4° orb
Yo-Yo’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.7° to 1.8° orb
Yo-Yo’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.1° to 1.8° orb
Yo-Yo’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.7° to 2.6° orb
Yo-Yo’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.4° to 4.4° orb
Yo-Yo’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.0° to 3.2° orb
Yo-Yo’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.5° to 3.7° orb
Yo-Yo’s growth and depths act as one.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune3.8° to 5.0° orb
Yo-Yo’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranussquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
Yo-Yo’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareUranus5.0° to 5.8° orb
Yo-Yo’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.1° to 5.2° orb
Yo-Yo’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Yo-Yo’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 0°05′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Yo-Yo making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°56′ (moves 0.19° 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 Yo-Yo caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosVirgo 17°15′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Yo-Yo is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 13°30′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Yo-Yo carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Yo-Yo leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Ceres square Sun 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Eros sextile Saturn 1.9°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.8°
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°).
Yo-Yo’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. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
5 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Yo-Yo 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 Yo-Yo’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 · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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-sextile Mars 0.3°
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Yo-Yo Ma, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Yo-Yo’s cards
Every card is computed from October 7, 1955, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Yo-Yo Ma, 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
Yo-Yo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234891, 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 Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Yo-Yo Ma at Wikipedia, IMDb, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
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 Yo-Yo Ma.
Quick answers about Yo-Yo Ma’s chart
- How old is Yo-Yo Ma?
- Yo-Yo Ma is 70 years old, born October 7, 1955 in Paris, France.
- What zodiac sign is Yo-Yo Ma?
- Yo-Yo Ma is a Libra: born October 7, 1955, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
- What is Yo-Yo Ma's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 7, 1955 birth.
- What time was Yo-Yo Ma 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 Yo-Yo Ma's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the October 7, 1955 birth date.
- What is Yo-Yo Ma's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 7, 1955 birth date.
- Where is Yo-Yo Ma's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Yo-Yo Ma's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
