Ada Limón
Ada Limón (born March 28, 1976, Sonoma, United States), aged 50, is an American writer. Limón has served as United States Poet Laureate. Limón's honours include United States Poet Laureate, Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellows Program.
Ada Limón’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Ada
Ada Limón’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Ada in the U.S.?
#219
US rank in 2025
~107,183
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
Ada ranked 826th in 1976, the year of this birth, with 168 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ada’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on A (1) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ada’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Scarlet
The record
What sets Ada apart
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) and Amancio Ortega (1936) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ada, according to the stars
Core essence
Ada leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Ada is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Ada is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Ada needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Ada wants to be loved
Ada wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Ada, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Ada creates
How Ada makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Ada creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Ada is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Ada is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Ada does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Ada's birth date. Working below.
Where Ada sits
Six lines
Ada’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Ada Limón
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sonoma on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Sonoma that night
Computed for 38.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Sonoma at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Sonoma on any night.
The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 28° below the horizon.
How unusual Ada's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mars · 1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Ada Limón's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 28, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Ada Limón was born on March 28, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Ada Limón's birth date, March 28, 1976, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Ada’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ada Limón's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Ada Limón combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Ada’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 1.2° orb
Ada’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 6.1° orb
Ada’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineUranus1.3° to 1.8° orb
Ada’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionPluto1.6° to 2.6° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableSunsquareMars3.3° to 3.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter4.0° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.1° to 7.1° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.2° to 6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Ada’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 26°29′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 14°34′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 22°39′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 29°52′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 16°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 0.5°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Ceres square Venus 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.6°
Ada’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Ada’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Sun, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.5°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 2.0°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 2.0°
More people like Ada
Other writers
- Douglas Stuart1976
- Miranda July1974
- Nacho Figueras1977
- Anne Boyer1973
- Nikole Hannah-Jones1976
- Drew Barrymore1975
Born in United States
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More charts like Ada’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Bruce SterlingAmerican author, speaker and futurist (born 1954)
- Nnedi OkoraforNigerian-American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and comics (born 1974)
- Robert BlochAmerican fiction writer
Born in Dragon years
- Marsha BlackburnAmerican businesswoman and politician (born 1952)
- John CornynAmerican politician and attorney (born 1952)
- Nancy PelosiAmerican politician (born 1940)
Also born on March 28
- Mario Vargas Llosa1936
- Amancio Ortega1936
- Jackson Wang1994
- Quan Hongchan2007
- D4vd2005
- Alex Wassabi1990
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Olivia HoltAmerican actress and singer (born 1997)
- Lukas GageAmerican actor and writer
- Gina GershonAmerican actress
Other Aries Dragon charts
- Glenn HowertonAmerican actor
- Marilu HennerAmerican actress (born 1952)
- Melissa Joan HartAmerican actress
- Wladimir KlitschkoUkrainian boxer (born 1976)
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- Richard HendersonNobel prize winning British biochemist (born 1945)
- Arthur B. McDonaldCanadian physicist (born 1943)
- Carol GreiderAmerican molecular biologist
- Yitzhak RabinIsraeli politician, statesman and general
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Kendrick LamarAmerican rapper
- Manny PacquiaoFilipino boxer, basketball player, singer, actor, politician and philanthropist
- Dolph LundgrenSwedish actor and martial artist
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Ada’s cards
Computed from March 28, 1976. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ada’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4678276 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ada Limón at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ada Limón.
Quick answers about Ada Limón’s chart
- How old is Ada Limón?
- Ada Limón is 50 years old, born March 28, 1976 in Sonoma, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ada Limón?
- Ada Limón is an Aries: born March 28, 1976, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Ada Limón's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 28, 1976 birth.
- What is Ada Limón's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ada Limón's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ada Limón's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ada Limón's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
