Chinese actor, one of the most famous film actors in Asia. He has starred in Hong Kong, Chinese and American films. He won the Hong Kong Academy of Film Awards for Best Actor three times, in 1987, 1988 and 1990 for Bright Future, City on Fire and All About Ah Long. Link to biography.
Date of Birth: May 18, 1955
Age: 71 years
Career: Actors
Sun: s Taurus 26°
Moon: a Aries 04°
Ascendant: g Leo 09°
Chow Yun-fat - natal chart calculation
Date of Birth: May 18, 1955, time 12:00 (GMT +9)
Place of birth: Hong Kong, China
Coordinates: latitude 22°n17', longitude 114°e10'
House system: Placidus
| Planet | Longitude | ||
| Q Sun | s Taurus 26°24'48" | ||
| W Moon | a Aries 04°29'08" | ||
| E Mercury | d Gemini 18°12'40" | ||
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| Planet | Power | Harmony |
|---|---|---|
| Q Sun | 50.80 | 12.43 |
| W Moon | 18.95 | 6.82 |
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| Planet | Aspect | Planet | Orb |
| Q Sun | t Sextile | Y Jupiter | 1.03 |
| Q Sun | t Sextile | I Uranus | 1.88 |
| Q Sun | o Quincunx | O Neptune | 0.32 |
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| Figure | Planet | ||
| Grand Trin | R Venus - P Pluto - { North Node | ||
| Bisextile | T Mars - R Venus - P Pluto | ||
| Bisextile | O Neptune - P Pluto - { North Node | ||
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Chow Yun-fat - Natal Chart Interpretation
Horoscope interpretation comes down to combining the meanings of the four basic elements of astrology — Planets, Signs, Aspects, and Houses — into a single whole, which is what makes each interpretation individual. More...
SUN
Strength: 50.80
Harmony: 12.43
The SUN is the most important luminary, the center of life force. It can be compared to the king on a chessboard. It determines the health and well-being of the person born. It gives a creative impulse and ideals, including the desire for power, influence, and strength.
The position of the main luminary in the natal chart has fateful significance. For example, the happiest people on Earth are those who do not have pronounced tense aspects to the Sun. At the same time, one might think that their character traits may be somewhat “soft,” because through the Sun a person develops the ego and strengthens the inner backbone of life. It is important to remember that the Sun represents the inner mind, not instinct. More...
Q Sun in Taurus s 26°
Taurus has tremendous inner strength, allowing them to withstand even the most difficult times. Yet despite such remarkable qualities, this representative of the Earth element often remains inactive, waiting for the perfect moment, and frequently misses good opportunities. A Taurus Sun is not prone to momentary impulses. On the contrary, everything in their life should be clearly planned. Any force majeure can drive this person mad, although outwardly they will not show the slightest sign of confusion and will continue moving forward no matter what.
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Sun Aspects
Just as all the planets in the solar system revolve around the Sun, a person receives their life purpose from the Sun in the natal chart. The Sun is the ego, the “inner child” that makes the final decisions. It guides the person and can be considered the “boss” of the natal chart, especially in the charts of men. Read more
MOON
Strength: 18.95
Harmony: 6.82
The Moon is a transmitter of sensations, emotions, and moods. It rules the spheres of the soul and subconscious, innate reflexes, and habits that come from childhood. The Moon is the ruler of Cancer. Taurus is considered the sign of its exaltation. Capricorn is considered the sign of its fall, and Scorpio the sign of its detriment, or exile. If the Moon has strong essential dignity in the horoscope and forms harmonious interactions with other planets in the natal chart, the native feels inner harmony; even when difficulties arise in life, they overcome periods of trouble with ease.
More...W Moon in Aries a 04°
The Moon: the second most important luminary, and often the first in a woman’s chart. The Moon gathers and transforms the energy of the other planets, especially the Sun. It rules instincts and emotions. It is the planet of moods. It symbolizes the feminine principle, conception, and motherhood, unlike Venus, which symbolizes sensual love.
The native is characterized by adaptability and inconsistency in their efforts. Frequent emotional upheavals are possible because of their hot-tempered nature, since calm is not their strong suit. If things do not go the way they want, they may simply burn out like a light bulb.
People born with the Moon in Aries are also spontaneous, temperamental, impulsive, and stubborn, and they strongly dislike restrictions.
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Moon Aspects
Moon aspects determine a person's everyday lifestyle and influence their health and relationships with others. They govern the maternal nature of women and the feelings of men connected with the opposite sex. Read more...
MERCURY
Strength: 24.97
Harmony: 0.65
Its close proximity to the Sun defines the nature of this small yet charismatic planet. Its main functions are intellect, logical thinking, cognition, communication, and the individual’s connection with society.
The ability to establish connections is traditionally considered Mercury’s most specific “character” trait. Even the myths described Mercury, or Hermes, as a mediator between Olympus and Earth, the messenger of the gods who connected their world with the world of humans by transmitting information: the gods’ commands to people and people’s requests to the gods. More...
E Mercury in Gemini d 18°
People born with Mercury in Gemini in the natal chart are extremely adaptable, energetic, active, alert, curious, and versatile.
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Mercury Aspects:
VENUS
Strength: 36.55
Harmony: 10.24
The areas of Venus’s influence are beauty, love, art, choice, friendship, partnership, and material values.
Venus rules the Second and Seventh Houses. The Second House points to money and property; it describes not only the material values a person owns, but also their natural talents and abilities, through which, with certain effort, they can acquire material prosperity. The Seventh House governs marriage, partnerships in business and politics, and business contracts. A strong Venus is a source of emotional warmth, tenderness, selfless devotion, and material well-being. More...
R Venus in Aries a 28°
Venus wants relationships, social contact, and affection. Aries, in turn, is decisive, demanding, and constantly tries to take the initiative.
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Venus Aspects:
MARS
Strength: 45.70
Harmony: 7.79
Mars is strength, assertiveness, aggressive sexuality, struggle, and rivalry. The planet’s most important functions are protection, the instinct of self-preservation, and self-expression. In the modern world, people rarely have to protect their lives or homes from mortal danger. What comes to the forefront instead is defending one’s own opinion, protecting personal interests in professional and social spheres, competing, and striving to win.
A strong Mars gives the world heroes capable of sacrificing themselves for other people or for higher ideals. In everyday reality, the person expresses themselves vividly through activity directed toward the common good. More...
T Mars in Gemini d 24°
Martian Geminis are always busy, mentally or physically, like little bees. They are constantly in motion, absorbed in various activities, usually several at once.
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Mars Aspects:
JUPITER
Strength: 43.35
Harmony: 23.48
In the astrological theater, Jupiter plays the role of the “Great Benefic.” Since antiquity, it has been associated with luck and material blessings. Yet the largest planet in the solar system has other purposes as well. It is responsible for spiritual and intellectual development and encourages a person to search for the meaning of life. From a psychological point of view, Jupiter embodies the generous, fair father. Its main enemies are stagnation and boredom. The giant rules the Ninth and Twelfth Houses.
The remarkable qualities of a strong Jupiterian person are often not their own achievement, but the result of fantastic luck. A winning lottery ticket or an unexpected inheritance are typical gifts from generous Jupiter. More...
Y Jupiter in Cancer f 25°
A person born with Jupiter in Cancer is loving, peaceful, friendly, sociable, responsive, and perhaps quite patriotic.
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Jupiter Aspects:
SATURN
Strength: 36.35
Harmony: -20.96
Traditionally, the “Lord of Time” is associated with the darkest sides of life: old age and death, decline and deprivation. Yet Saturn is also a great sage, mentor, and lawgiver. It embodies a person’s conscience. Saturn creates prohibitions, but without them, chaos and anarchy would reign in life. Saturn promotes maturity and teaches a person to plan their life. It rules the Tenth astrological House and is responsible for career, social status, and reputation.
A strong, beneficial Saturn gives a person healthy ambition, the ability to creatively rework experience accumulated over centuries and make valuable discoveries based on it, as well as strong health, longevity, and a secure old age. More...
U Saturn in Scorpio k 17°
People born with Saturn in Scorpio can be very disciplined. They have executive ability, insight, and extraordinary capacities. They may also have extrasensory abilities.
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Saturn Aspects:
URANUS
Strength: 42.82
Harmony: 12.33
Uranus is a symbol of suddenness and surprise, originality and eccentricity, unforeseen actions and behavior, various shifts and changes, turning points and rearrangements of both a positive and negative nature. Under its influence, past and present values are reassessed, and the future is anticipated.
Uranus is the sign of higher reason and almost supernatural intuition. It gives rise to true geniuses, people who are ahead of their time and remain misunderstood by their own generation. Uranus represents a projected point of the unconscious, yet it brings highly symbolic images and impulses into a person’s consciousness, arising both while awake and in dreams. This distinctive power to form images gives birth to intuition and inspiration, a flash of creative force, as well as scientists and inventors, poets and performers, musicians and artists, statesmen and political figures, religious reformers and revolutionaries.
Driven by the desire to play by its own rules, Uranus embodies change, reform, evolution, and revolution. More...
Uranus Aspects:
NEPTUNE
Strength: 43.89
Harmony: -0.28
Neptune is full of mysteries. Its realm is feelings and impressions, dreams and reveries. The planet forms a refined perception of art, as well as an attraction to religion and mysticism. Neptune constantly acts on a person in an almost imperceptible, even mysterious way, creating forces that reject and refuse to acknowledge any psychic or spiritual limitations. These forces stir the feelings to their deepest depths and direct the mind toward the search for still-unknown and undiscovered mysteries of nature, the cosmos, and the human being.
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Neptune Aspects:
PLUTO
Strength: 50.26
Harmony: 12.93
PLUTO is the main ruler of all collective mysteries, gatherings, rallies, demonstrations, and similar mass events. Together with Uranus, it destroys old, rotten, outdated political world systems, creating new ones separately for each nation and state.
On the one hand, Pluto shows a person as an integral being; on the other, as a particle of the cosmos and of a given society. Pluto symbolizes the final stage of the individuation process, a second birth or rebirth, after which the person becomes more complete. In one case, it may bring the person under its influence brilliant success and career advancement, unexpected wealth or worldwide fame, influence over the masses, the crowd, the public, or an audience, and a social rise as rapid and dazzling as a meteor. In another case, it may bring total losses. More...
Pluto Aspects:
CHIRON
Chiron is a planetoid with the ability to intensify the energetic impulses of celestial bodies. By changing the characteristics of planets, it contributes to unexpected changes in the native’s life, much like Uranus. It should not be forgotten that Chiron symbolizes duality in different areas.
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Karmic indicators help a person become aware of deep-rooted problems that go back to past lives, and begin working on themselves in order to overcome them and improve both this life and, potentially, the next one. Karmic problems should not be understood as punishment for misdeeds and sins, as karma is usually interpreted in the everyday sense. Karma is not retribution, but rather inertia, when a person attracts similar situations from one life to another. From a karmic point of view, every element of the natal chart can be interpreted without exception. However, the most important indicators of karma in the horoscope are retrograde planets, if any, and the Lunar Nodes.
Retrograde Planets
Retrograde planets are always connected with turning back to the past. The more retrograde planets a person has in the horoscope, the stronger their connection with the past. A retrograde planet also points to an unresolved task from a past life, unfinished business, or unrealized abilities. It forces the person to take up again what could not be completed in the past. The symbol used in the table is R.
Retrograde Saturn - Individuality
A native with retrograde Saturn takes very seriously the completion of everything they left unfinished in the past. They tend to go back in order to fill any gaps in what they once too hastily considered complete. Essentially, they are thoughtful and balanced. At times, they may seem overly cautious or too frugal, but any restraint on their part is entirely based on their need to preserve substance for important use. They consider excessive spending or wastefulness harmful, because they experienced this in past lives. Now they deeply value everything they learn or receive. Often, they feel an inner duty to God, which manifests as a powerful sense of gratitude for everything they see around them.
They try to teach other people who are less knowledgeable or experienced than they are. However, this is unsuccessful if those people have not experienced the native’s “fall from grace” in a past life and the great struggle that has now earned them the way back. As a result, retrograde Saturn carries an “inborn” maturity that cannot be achieved without great personal struggle and sacrifice.
Retrograde Saturn - Karma
Retrograde Saturn always indicates ongoing karma from past incarnations. Whatever the lesson may be, the native is unusually slow in bringing it to completion. Therefore, in this life, they must carry an additional burden from a past life within their soul. When the two lives finally come together, their true mission should become clear to them. Much of what they do in this life is a repetition of what their Saturn already stands for. But now they are faced with circumstances and situations that are somewhat different. The retrograde action of the planet may make them feel a restraining force, especially if they try to escape the weight of its lesson. But if they follow it, understanding that its patient guidance is slowly leading them toward identification with something higher than they could have imagined, then through this planet they can come to appreciate the workings of a beautiful divine universe.
Saturn is the person’s teacher, and when it is retrograde, it means the native experienced similar training before this life. Over the course of life, retrograde Saturn provides a tremendous amount of wisdom.
For Saturn, the retrograde position is the most natural and comfortable one, because it gives the native something like a second chance to refine the relationship formed between their soul, the circumstances they encountered in a past incarnation, and the way those circumstances were understood. Now, under Saturn’s calm guidance, the person can give form to everything they learned in the past.
Retrograde Saturn in Scorpio
Here the native learns through experience the meaning of life on its most fundamental level. They possess very deep insight, much of which comes from their personal experience. Constantly living on the edge of self-destruction, they continue to reject everything they achieve because it lacks deeper meaning. Eventually, they see this lack in almost everything. They feel that behind whatever they can perceive at any given moment, there is a reality whose existence they know to be true.
The building of their essence takes place deep within the subconscious, and the fleeting pleasures of life do not satisfy them in the slightest. They always sense an inner cosmic reality that continually draws them toward its center.
In the outer world, they are very firm in their positions, and few people can divert them from their goal. They may be a social campaigner trying to transform the society in which they live; a rebel against orthodox tradition, trying to transform themselves; or a seeker of truth who wants to transform humanity. All of this depends on the level of karma with which they enter this life.
Usually, this Saturn placement is outwardly experienced as Phase One, while inwardly the experience of Phase Three works like an undercurrent that motivates all visible actions. Thus, the native’s inner reflections on their place in the society in which they live become the stimulus for the directions in which they would like to transform it.
Retrograde Neptune - Individuality
The individuality of a person with retrograde Neptune is not easy for others to understand. Their motives do not contain the common sense that anyone might expect to find at the root of all motivations. Instead, they are attuned to a higher music that only they can hear. Their perceptions do not come from the material plane; they are a direct connection with their Soul. Thus, they may be very spiritual, but they care little for the formal side of orthodox religion. They may have a great love of music, but cannot be assigned to any particular artificial structure within it. They feel almost everything, but they connect their feelings with physical reality far less than with the perception of the cosmic universe. They know far more than they can even express in words, and here again they recognize the limiting qualities of language, which is merely another formed boundary that can enclose their boundless understanding. They are able to understand the appearances and illusions in which others live, and therefore must try to strike the best possible bargain: not to knock down other people’s sand castles, while still preserving all the inner truths they know.
Retrograde Neptune - Karma
The native with retrograde Neptune is living through the karma of learning how to sort out what is real from the standpoint of their ideals and what only appears to fulfill their dreams. They know what they need, but it is difficult for them to find it in the outer world. Constantly living through dreams, they often get carried away, running from imaginary shadows while chasing unrealistic fantasies. Nevertheless, they must find their ideals in the “formless” world that strongly influences them. They sometimes make the mistake of projecting past dreams into present situations. This prevents them from clearly seeing the reality of the present. They are highly intuitive and, through the various retrograde phases, are often able to know the outcome of situations long before they enter them. But until they learn how to handle the subtle flow of Neptunian energy they feel within themselves, they will not easily trust their intuition.
The native must learn how to blend their feelings with the ideals and dreams they bring into this life. Instead of trying to distort perception in order to make the present conform to the past, the person must realize which parts of the present truly symbolize the karmically unfinished parts of the past.
Retrograde Neptune in Libra
Here the native experiences Phase Three of the retrograde process, when they impartially absorb impressions from their surroundings. They usually think that all the feelings they experience are their own, and that they ultimately require some action or decision on their part. The fact is, however, that this placement gives the native the opportunity to experience much within the universe. At the same time, they are not required to take it personally.
They are very sensitive, especially to music and art, and they find it difficult to deal with the harshness of life, to which they are excessively open. They make the mistake of believing that they must balance everything around them in order to balance themselves. This apparently causes them to become involved in other people’s affairs more than is actually useful. They must understand that every new grain of sand they add to the scales of Libra as a balanced solution to what already exists creates the next imbalance, which then requires a new solution. Many people with this placement become so disappointed in trying to center the world around themselves that they eventually turn to drugs or other forms of escapism in order to avoid realizing that their personal difficulties come from problems that do not require solutions.
When this configuration is used properly, it gives the native tremendous understanding of their mirror reflection, or of that part of their individuality that they see through the eyes of others. Karmically, they can learn to integrate better into society through this type of vision. At the same time, they will move farther away from their essential self, as they strive to know themselves through others. They can achieve happiness when they realize that a person does not receive happiness, but discovers it in a more or less constant state of satisfaction with life experience and with the tiny role a person plays within the totality of the cosmic plan.
LUNAR NODES
Lunar Nodes symbolize the axis of development. The South Node indicates the experience a person has accumulated in past lives, while the North Node shows the experience the person needs to acquire in the current life.
North Node in Sagittarius, South Node in Gemini
A person with the South Node in Gemini is accustomed to an active, mobile way of life. They travel a lot, study, and communicate. However, in this life they need to become more elevated and develop philosophical thinking. Fuss and distraction take up a great deal of time and energy, while solving the same types of tasks does not truly foster growth.
If the person decides to move along the path of the North Node, they will be able to avoid many problems: dependence on the opinions of others, getting bogged down in details, and a lack of independence.
It will be good if the native chooses teaching or scientific work, independently generates progressive ideas, and devotes themselves to spreading new philosophical concepts.
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Lunar Node Aspects:
SELENA
In addition to the North Node, the path of karmic advancement and the application of innate talents is shown by the White Moon, also called Selena or Lulu. This is a fictitious point that reflects the light karma accumulated by the native in a past life, or by their ancestors over several generations. The place where the guardian angel’s sign is located shows the area in which the native has accumulated the greatest number of good deeds. This is where the starry road to success and prosperity now shines, provided the higher qualities of the sign where the White Moon is located are developed and expressed.
Selena (White Moon) in Cancer
When Selena falls in the sign of Cancer, she endows her ward with emotional softness and warmth, as well as the desire to bless the sick and suffering with parental tenderness and support. This is evidence of bright karma from the past.
Astrologers believe that in a previous incarnation, the native selflessly cared for relatives and young children, and may even have died protecting them or the sacred treasures of the homeland. Therefore, now they are born into a loving family and can easily bring their dreams to life in their native country. The White Moon in Cancer tests loyalty to ideals every seven years, and if the person has caused pain to loved ones and chosen a selfish path of development, then a split in the family and forced emigration may await them.
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LILITH
Lilith is considered a demon-temptress, but it is often not understood that at the highest level of consciousness development, she ceases to be a source of danger and, on the contrary, strengthens a person’s talents according to the sign and house in which she is placed.
For this reason, it is very important to bring one’s Lilith out of darkness and into the light. Then the courage for new exploration can manifest on a positive, creative level. This is a fictitious point in the horoscope, not a planet, but its power is often underestimated, while working through it is often considered impossible. However, the right actions and symbolism can work wonders.
Lilith shows the bottom, the darkest side of the person: the dark pit into which the native may fall if they give in to the temptation of lower vibrations and follow the path marked by Lilith. This should be kept in mind when reading a horoscope.
Lilith (Black Moon) in Sagittarius
With Lilith in the sign of Sagittarius, sensuality is expressed in a more measured way, since it is under strict control based on upbringing, moral and religious dogmas, philosophical convictions, or the influence of traditions from foreign cultures. Here the person must give up false teaching, the acceptance of alien ideology, the desire to rule over others in order to lead them or force them into sexual relations, as well as bribery or abuse of authority. It is considered together with the positions of the Lunar Nodes, Jupiter, Chiron, Mercury, Venus, and the Ninth House of the horoscope.
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Lilith Aspects:
Strength Concentration (Astrodynes)
This section examines the concentration of energy in the natal chart: which signs, planets, and houses contain the main strength. Everyone knows the Sun zodiac sign, but when the signs are viewed through the prism of the natal chart, it becomes clear how energy is distributed between the two strongest signs, and the Sun sign is not always dominant.
The signs give an idea of natural, instinctive motivations, such as likes and dislikes, attitudes, and reactions, and make it possible to judge whether a calling is present. The two strongest signs are shown in the table below. For more details about the distribution of strength in the natal chart, see the “Astrodynes” section: link to the Astrodynes chart.
| Sign | Strength |
|---|---|
| g Leo | 109 |
| s Taurus | 103 |
| ------ | ------ |
| TOTAL (12 Signs) | 687 |
Now the planets that concentrate the main energy in the chart can be identified. The planet with the greatest number of “astrodynes” is considered the strongest planet in the chart, since it reflects the most powerful energetic potential. Why are strong planets so important? The most powerful planets in the table indicate potential that can easily be transformed into abilities. This is where the person can succeed and achieve the best results.
| Planet | Strength |
|---|---|
| Q Sun | 50 |
| P Pluto | 50 |
| ------ | ------ |
| TOTAL (all Planets) | 462 |
CONTINUATION
Congratulations, the natal chart has been calculated. This is the basis, the foundation, the person’s inner cosmos. A person will return to it many times, each time discovering something new and unexplored.
All the links below lead to charts calculated using the data from the natal chart form.
Additional understanding of the chart can be gained through:
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Fixed Stars in the natal chart. Some planets in the natal chart may behave in very unusual ways, and the cause may be the influence of a star hidden behind the planet or house cusp.
The next step is predictive astrology:
- Transit Calculation. This method makes it possible to calculate the transits of moving planets and overlay them on the natal chart. Transiting planets interact with the planets of the natal chart. As a result, an energetic connection arises, activating and awakening various events in a person’s inner and outer life.
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