Zhang Yiming

Fire takes six of his ten planets, water two, with one apiece in earth and air. Fire moves and expects to be watched; the elements that would hold a thing in place or talk it over are down to a planet each. The record says Zhang Yiming is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded ByteDance and TikTok.

The Sun sits at eleven degrees of Aries with Mercury at seventeen and Mars at twenty seven, three planets in the sign most recognisable when it has something to push against. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune spread across twenty degrees of Sagittarius and the first two were retrograde. The Moon answers from Scorpio at twenty three, feeling everything at depth and showing almost none of it. For a founder, an Aries group over a Scorpio Moon is the division that matters: the launching is public and the reading of a room is not.

The Sun sits in easy contact with Jupiter three hundredths of a degree from exact, which is about as close as a pair of planets gets, and the reading is growth without much friction: opportunity arriving through being well thought of, and an easy faith that things will work out. In a record of two companies founded, that is the contact to keep. Mars sits in hard contact with that same Jupiter at four fifths, action outrunning sense. Four of the ten planets were retrograde at his birth.

Jupiter came back round to its Sagittarius birth degree on 27 December 2018, at thirty five, in reverse as it was at his birth, and two laps precede it. Sagittarius measures a thing by how far it got from where it started, which for a founder the record credits with two companies is a question with a very large answer. Six planets in fire with identity three hundredths of a degree from scale is what this chart comes down to.