Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955, Paris, France), aged 71, 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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Yo-Yo
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.
What Yo-Yo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on Y (7) and closes on O (6). Two values tie for most repeated, 6 and 7: care against analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Yo-Yo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Yo-Yo apart
Yo-Yo Ma took the Dan David Prize in 2006, at 51.
Training came by way of CRD Claude-Debussy de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Trinity School.
On the family side, Yo-Yo Ma was born to Marina Ma and Hiao-Tsiun Ma and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Yo-Yo Ma: American male classical cellists, Glenn Gould Prize winners and Honorary members of the Royal Academy of Music.
Niels Bohr (1885) and Desmond Tutu (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- CRD Claude-Debussy de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Trinity School and Juilliard School
- Instruments
- piano, violin, cello and viola
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2011), Praemium Imperiale (2021) and Time 100 (2020)
- Working from
- 1961
- Citizenship
- United States and France
- Languages
- French, English and Standard Chinese
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
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. Working below.
Where Yo-Yo sits
Six lines
Yo-Yo’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Yo-Yo Ma
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Paris 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 Paris that night
Computed for 48.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Paris at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 6.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.
At 48.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Nothing below −41.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Paris on any night.
The Moon, 59% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 26° below the horizon.
How unusual Yo-Yo's chart is
Chart pattern score
74 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Libra · A bundled chart · 1 unaspected planet
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 →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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Gemini or Cancer 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
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
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.7° to 2.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.4° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune3.8° to 5.0° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus5.0° to 5.8° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.1° to 5.2° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 0°05′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 14°56′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 17°15′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 13°30′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Yo-Yo’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Yo-Yo’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Yo-Yo
Other composers
- Melinda Wagner1957
- Zhou Long1953
- Morrissey1959
- Anthony Davis1951
- L.A. Reid1956
- Jermaine Jackson1954
Born in France
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- Michel DevoretFrench physicist
- Yoshua BengioCanadian computer scientist
- Alain WertheimerFrench businessman
- Pierre-Louis LionsFrench mathematician and Fields Medalist
- Laurent DassaultFrench billionaire businessman
More charts like Yo-Yo’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Garrett CampCanadian entrepreneur
- Herb SimonAmerican businessman (born 1934)
- Gail MillerAmerican businesswoman
Born in Goat years
- André Frédéric CournandFrench physiologist
- Daniel BovetNobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and Esperantist
- Henrik DamDanish biochemist and physiologist
Also born on October 7
- Niels Bohr1885
- Desmond Tutu1931
- María Corina Machado1967
- Diego Costa1988
- Thom Yorke1968
- Toni Braxton1966
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Davis MillsAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Boye MafeAmerican football defensive end
- Isaiah FoskeyAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Libra Goat charts
- Dillon MitchellAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Andy BechtolsheimGerman electrical engineer (born 1955) Co-founder of Sun Microsystems; early investor in Google
- Dilip ShanghviIndian businessman
- Idan OferIsraeli business magnate and philanthropist
Other Gilded Strategists
- Daniel Day-LewisBritish actor
- Samuel L. JacksonAmerican actor
- Han KangSouth Korean writer
- Chester BenningtonAmerican singer, songwriter and musician
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Lorne MichaelsCanadian and American television producer, writer, and actor
- CarryMinatiIndian YouTuber and streamer
- Kyle RichardsAmerican actress and television personality
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Yo-Yo’s cards
Computed from October 7, 1955. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Yo-Yo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234891 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Yo-Yo Ma.
Quick answers about Yo-Yo Ma’s chart
- How old is Yo-Yo Ma?
- Yo-Yo Ma is 71 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.
- 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 is Yo-Yo Ma's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Yo-Yo Ma's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
