Park Chan-wook: Saju & Astrology Birth Chart Profile
Film Director / Screenwriter · Born 1963-08-23 (public profile · birth time unknown)
Musul (戊戌) Day Master · No Resource Star at all — only a doubled Output-God structure, and that void built three Cannes crowns.
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The Four Pillars (Saju)
Five-Element Balance
Notable Stars (神煞)
Heaven Virtue Noble — heaven's virtue — a protective star that softens misfortune
Moon Virtue Noble — the moon's virtue — gentle protection that stays close
Supreme Ultimate Noble — a foremost benefactor drawn by the heavens — a way opens where things were blocked
Literary Star — a benefactor star for writing, creativity and study
Peach Blossom — a star of magnetism — a placement that catches the public eye
Resentment Star (怨嗔) — a friction pair where expectation and resentment grow together — managing distance is the task
Ghost Gate Star (鬼門) — sharp intuition paired with deep dwelling — it catches what others miss
Sukuyo — 27 and 28 Lunar Mansions
The 27-mansion value is the natal lodge; the 28-mansion value is the lodge assigned to the calendar day. Only the calculated mansions are shown here, without adding a personality claim.
Luck Timeline (Saju)
Ten-year major cycles and annual cycles computed from the public birth date (as of 2026).
Only degree-checked contacts between slow transiting planets and natal personal planets are shown for 2026.
- “Fog Advisory on Words” — Transit Neptune facing natal Mercury — a long backdrop where thought & voice meets the theme of dissolution (orb 7.4°)
- “Drive Meets the Wall” — Transit Saturn facing natal Mars — a long backdrop where drive & action meets the theme of structure & duty (orb 2.5°)
The timeline shows calculated shifts and planetary contacts; it does not fix a specific event in advance.
Birth Chart — the same person, read in Western astrology
Birth time is not public, so houses, the Ascendant, and precise Moon aspects are omitted; only non-Moon planetary positions and aspects are shown.
Sun in Leo · Mercury in Virgo · Venus in Leo · Mars in Libra
Birth time is not public, so houses, the Ascendant, and precise Moon aspects are omitted; only non-Moon planetary positions and aspects are shown.
Saju × Astrology — the Combined Reading
Park Chan-wook won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2004 for Oldboy, the Jury Prize in 2009 for Thirst, and the Best Director award in 2022 for Decision to Leave — three major Cannes prizes, the…
Start with the pillars, elements and birth chart below. The prose is best read as a plain-language explanation of those repeated structures, not as a verdict.
Full interpretation
Park Chan-wook won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2004 for Oldboy, the Jury Prize in 2009 for Thirst, and the Best Director award in 2022 for Decision to Leave — three major Cannes prizes, the most of any Korean filmmaker. In 2026 he was named president of the jury for the 79th Cannes Film Festival, the first Korean to hold that role. What stands out in this chart is a total absence of the Resource star — the placement tied to inherited authority and external validation — while two Output stars fill that empty space instead.
The Day Master, Earth (Wu/戊), sits on a Month Branch, Monkey (Shen/申), whose hidden root Metal (Geng/庚) surfaces openly in the stem above — a sign that the Month Branch's energy runs unusually strong. With one Companion, two Output, one Wealth, and one Officer star, this is a chart built around a single center of gravity — turning self-generated stories (Output) outward into the world. The Year Stem Gui (癸) combines with the Day Master Wu (戊), but the combination never transforms, so the core identity holds; meanwhile the Year Branch Rabbit (Mao/卯) and Day Branch Dog (Xu/戌) lock into a Branch Combination. Yet between the Year Branch and Month Branch (Mao and Shen), a Clash of Resentment overlaps with a Ghost Gate pattern — a structure that fuses sharp instinct for what others miss with a tendency to circle the same thought until it wears a groove.
Astrologically, the Sun and Venus both sit in Leo, Mercury is in Virgo, and Mars is in Libra. With no known birth time, the Moon's sign is fixed in Libra, but its precise aspects stay undisclosed. The tightest placement in the chart is a Jupiter-Saturn sextile at a 0.2-degree orb — expansion and refinement locked almost exactly together. Close behind is a Neptune-Pluto sextile at 1.7 degrees, a generational placement that still adds an undertone of imagination pushed toward fundamental transformation.
"A storyteller built on a doubled Output star instead of a Resource star — and Cannes noticed three times."
Structure-by-structure reading
Bound Yet Unresolved
A stem combination holds without transforming, a branch combination ties Rabbit and Dog together, while a Rabbit-Monkey resentment overlapping a Ghost Gate keeps trust and obsession locked in the same structure — echoing the trust-and-betrayal threads running through his films.
Five Noble Stars
Heavenly and Monthly Virtue Nobles align with three Cannes wins, the Supreme Ultimate Noble marks raw creative force, the Literary Star matches his screenwriting craft, and the Peach Blossom Star tracks the magnetic visual style audiences remember.
From Rebellion to Refinement
The Year Branch's Bathing stage suggests an early willingness to break form, the Month Branch's Sickness stage shows sustained creative output, and the Day Branch's Tomb stage points to an inward, perfectionist drive to polish work to completion.
Expansion Locked to Restraint
A near-exact Jupiter-Saturn sextile anchors the chart, joined by a generational Neptune-Pluto sextile, a Sun-Venus conjunction fusing self-expression with aesthetics, and a Mars-Saturn trine giving drive and structure a friction-free channel.
A Leo Author's Eye
Sun and Venus in Leo supply dramatic presence and bold visual taste, Mercury in Virgo sharpens structural precision in the writing, and Mars in Libra channels drive through balance and tension within composition.
Hidden Fire Beneath the Surface
No Fire element appears among the six visible characters, yet Fire is stored in the hidden stems of the Day Branch. A structure that slowly builds heat out of sight rather than on the surface lines up with a body of work honed quietly over decades before claiming three major Cannes prizes.
The current Jia-Yin (甲寅) luck pillar runs from 2018 to 2027, ages 55 to 64, placing 2026 in the later half of this transitional decade. This reading is drawn from publicly available birth data and BaZi/astrology calculations for reference only — it does not predict real events or the future. Because the exact birth time is unknown, precise Moon placements are not covered here.
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FAQ
Even without the hour pillar, the six known characters carry the main structure — the day master, day pillar and elemental balance. Areas governed by the hour pillar (such as late-life currents) are simply not read, and this page follows that rule.
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