Ai Weiwei's Birth Chart
Ai Weiwei was born on August 28, 1957 in Beijing, China. The chart has the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Libra. No birth time is on record for Ai Weiwei, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
| Born | August 28, 1957 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Beijing, China |
Ai Weiwei's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Virgo: Done Properly
You become yourself by being useful. Identity here is built from competence, from work nobody notices until it is missing, and you shine quietly, through things done properly. People experience you as observant, exact and reserved, and they bring you the problems that need sorting out. Your eye for what is wrong is the same eye that makes you good, and it turns on yourself, so praise slides off while a small error stays. Vitality comes from order and drains in chaos you cannot fix.
Moon in Libra: Peace at a Price
Your mood tracks the mood of whoever is in the room, and harmony is a physical need, not a taste. Conflict sits in your stomach, and you will smooth, defer and rephrase to keep the air clear. Comfort is company, beauty and being half of a pair. You read what others need and lose track of your own wants in the process, and resentment surfaces late. Alone, you often do not know what you feel until someone else is there to feel it with.
No birth time is on record for Ai Weiwei, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
Planet positions in Ai Weiwei's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 4°06′ to 5°04′ |
| Moon | Libra | 5°12′ to 19°56′ |
| Mercury (retrograde) | Virgo | 25°15′ to 25°10′ |
| Venus | Libra | 9°08′ to 10°19′ |
| Mars | Virgo | 12°20′ to 12°58′ |
| Jupiter | Libra | 3°55′ to 4°07′ |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 7°53′ to 7°54′ |
| Uranus | Leo | 8°58′ to 9°02′ |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 0°24′ to 0°25′ |
| Pluto | Virgo | 0°17′ to 0°19′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Scorpio | 13°00′ to 12°56′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Aquarius | 13°46′ to 13°43′ |
With no birth time, each degree is given as the span the planet covered over the day of birth.
Element and modality balance
Only planets that stayed in one sign throughout the birth day are counted.
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 2, Earth 4, Air 3, Water 1. By modality: Cardinal 3, Fixed 2, Mutable 5.
A earth emphasis
An earth emphasis makes you practical, grounded, and reliable: you build slowly, value the tangible, and bring ideas down to reality.
A mutable emphasis
A mutable emphasis makes you adaptable and flexible: you adjust easily, juggle change, and thrive on variety and versatility.
The tightest aspects in Ai Weiwei's chart
- Mars sextile North Node, orb 0°40′
- Saturn trine Uranus, orb 1°07′
- Venus sextile Uranus, orb 1°18′
- Venus sextile Saturn, orb 2°25′
- Sun square Saturn, orb 3°47′
- Jupiter sextile Saturn, orb 3°58′
- Uranus square North Node, orb 4°02′
- Sun sextile Neptune, orb 4°38′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mars sextile North Node: Effort Toward Growth
Your body knows the direction before your head does. Mars and the North Node sit at a workable angle here, so raw effort and the unfamiliar path you're meant to walk stay separate but reachable: pushing into something new physically, competitively, or sexually is what actually moves the growth axis. In people who use it, courage looks practical. In people who don't, the same wiring just sits there as restlessness with nowhere to go.
Saturn trine Uranus: Effortless System Rebuilds
Restructuring comes so naturally you barely register it as a skill. Rules and innovation flow into each other, so you reorganize work, tech, and groups without drama and often without being asked. The flow amplifies whatever it runs through, so a bad system gets rebuilt just as smoothly as a good one.
Venus sextile Uranus: Taste With Wiring
Beauty and the odd idea sit next to each other here, willing to work together the moment you put them on the same table. It looks like taste that runs ahead of the room, money handled in ways your friends would call weird, art built out of tools and tech. The pair cooperates on request, not by default, so in people who never make the ask it stays a quiet preference for unusual things.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Ai Weiwei's recorded date and place of birth. Without a birth time the rising sign and houses are unknown. Sun and Moon signs are stated only when they held true for the whole day. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.