Chen Kaige’s birth chart
Film directorBorn August 12, 1952, Beijing, China
Big-hearted and bright.
- SunLeoThe Bright One
- MoonTaurusThe Hearth
- VenusVirgoThe Quiet Romantic
What his chart says about him
Who he is
Sun in Leo, the Bright One
Big-hearted and bright. Brings warmth into a room and loves to see other people do well. Imagination and identity work together: he can become a character, a mood or an idea, and make others believe in it.
The Sun sextile Neptune (exact at 0.0°)
What he needs
Moon in Taurus, the Hearth
Calm, warm and steady. Feels safest with good food, soft things and a familiar routine, and makes everyone around him feel the same.
How he loves
Venus in Virgo, the Quiet Romantic
Shows love through care, help and attention to small things.
How he thinks
Mercury in Leo, the Storyteller
Speaks with warmth and confidence and tells a great story. Thinks in big, bold ideas. Big ideas and loose details: he thinks on a large scale, and the small print is where things get away from him.
Mercury square Jupiter (almost exact at 0.7°)
What drives him
Mars in Scorpio, the Strategist
Quietly powerful. Works in private, holds nothing back, and does not give up. A fierce will: he meets opposition head on, and a fight brings out his full strength.
Mars square Pluto (exact at 0.0°)
The shape of his chart
In his chart, his identity, his mind and his intensity (the Sun, Mercury and Pluto) gather in Leo, and that part of life draws his attention first.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Chen Kaige was born six days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 54% lit, in Taurus. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Tuesday, 41 days before the September equinox.
Mercury retrograde
Mercury was retrograde all the day Chen Kaige was born, as it was on 67 days of 1952. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Chen Kaige, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 2010 and 2011, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1981. The third begins in 2039. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Leo
You and Chen Kaige
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The chart
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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
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See allQuestions about his chart
What is Chen Kaige’s zodiac sign?
Leo. Chen Kaige was born on August 12, 1952, with the Sun in Leo, the Bright One. Big-hearted and bright. Brings warmth into a room and loves to see other people do well.
What is Chen Kaige’s Moon sign?
Taurus, the Hearth. Calm, warm and steady. Feels safest with good food, soft things and a familiar routine, and makes everyone around him feel the same.
What is Chen Kaige’s rising sign?
The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on August 12, 1952. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Chen Kaige’s Venus sign?
Virgo, the Quiet Romantic. Shows love through care, help and attention to small things.
How does your chart compare with Chen Kaige’s?
Set your chart beside Chen Kaige’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.
Sources and credits
Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Chen Kaige’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.
The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.
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