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Anya Taylor-Joy

Anya Taylor-Joy (born Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy; April 16, 1996, Miami, United States), aged 30, is an Actress. Taylor-Joy is best known for The Witch, Emma and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Taylor-Joy's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Movie/Miniseries Actress and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.

Anya Taylor-Joy’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Anya Taylor-Joy’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Visionary

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Anya in the U.S.?

#375

US rank in 2025

~20,561

Americans share it since 1943

2007

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1996, Anya came 1,375th, carried by 122 American girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Anya’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy, not the name they published under.

5

Expression · versatility

1

Soul Urge · independence

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on A (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Anya’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy

White · Crimson · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Anya apart

What keeps Anya Taylor-Joy in print: The Witch, Emma and The Queen's Gambit.

Queen's Gate School and Northlands School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 2013, at 17.

The family line: born to Jennifer Marina Joy-Morancho and Dennis Taylor and married Malcolm McRae.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Anya Taylor-Joy: English people of Spanish descent, Actresses from Buenos Aires and British people of Argentine descent.

The same date carries Drew Sample. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Known for
The Witch, Emma and The Queen's Gambit
Educated at
Queen's Gate School and Northlands School
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Miniseries or Television Film (2021), Trophée Chopard (2015) and Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Movie/Miniseries Actress (2021)
Nominated for
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Working from
2013
Citizenship
United States and United Kingdom
Languages
Spanish and English
Wikipedia editions
64

What the chart says

Anya, according to the stars

Core essence

Anya 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 Anya 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, Anya runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Anya needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Anya wants to be loved

Anya wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Anya like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Anya creates

How Anya makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Anya creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Anya is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Anya 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Anya gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Anya's birth date. Working below.

Where Anya sits

Six lines

Anya’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Anya

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
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You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
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You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Anya

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Anya

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Anya Taylor-Joy

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Miami on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Anya’s birth-night reference starAsellus Australiswarm orange · CancerAsellus Australis, in Cancer. A warm orange star, 78.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Asellus Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 22.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Miami that night

Computed for 25.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Asellus Australis stood nearest the zenith over Miami at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.6° above the horizon in Cancer.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 25.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 17° down.

The name and the places

Born as
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy
Known as
Anya Taylor-Joy
Born in
Miami, United States
Lives in
London

Wikidata records London as Anya Taylor-Joy's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Anya Taylor-Joy: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Anya's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Aries · No Water planets · A leaning bowl

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.

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Aries Sun

Runs at it head first.

Anya Taylor-Joy's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 16, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Fire Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Anya Taylor-Joy was born on April 16, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Anya Taylor-Joy's birth date, April 16, 1996, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Anya’s chart

Anya’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.6° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.8° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.8° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.5° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.7° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.3° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.4° orbSun in Aries · 26°56′☉26°Moon in Aries · 10°59′☽10°Mercury in Taurus · 15°10′☿15°Venus in Gemini · 11°44′♀11°Mars in Aries · 17°47′♂17°Jupiter in Capricorn · 17°09′♃17°Saturn in Aries · 1°06′♄1°Uranus in Aquarius · 4°23′♅4°Neptune in Capricorn · 27°43′♆27°Pluto in Sagittarius · 2°39′ · retrograde♇℞2°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb

    Anya’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter0.3° to 1.0° orb

    Anya’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter1.3° to 2.7° orb

    Anya’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.7° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune6.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 13.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 13.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

Anya’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 9°56′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 15°42′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCancer 8°16′ (moves 0.94° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 28°31′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 22°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Chiron trine Venus 1.8°
  • Ceres trine Mars 2.1°
  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.6°

Anya’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Anya’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Sun biquintile Pluto 0.3°
  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.5°
  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.9°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
  • Venus quintile Saturn 1.4°
  • Mars quintile Uranus 1.4°

Born the same day as Anya

Drew Sample was born on April 16, 1996 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 104 catalog stars stood above Miami, at 25.8°N that night, with Asellus Australis nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.

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Anya’s cards

Computed from April 16, 1996. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Visionary

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Anya’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q20882479 (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 Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Anya Taylor-Joy at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anya Taylor-Joy.

Quick answers about Anya Taylor-Joy’s chart

How old is Anya Taylor-Joy?
Anya Taylor-Joy is 30 years old, born April 16, 1996 in Miami, United States.
What zodiac sign is Anya Taylor-Joy?
Anya Taylor-Joy is an Aries: born April 16, 1996, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Anya Taylor-Joy's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 16, 1996 birth.
How tall is Anya Taylor-Joy?
Anya Taylor-Joy is 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Anya Taylor-Joy's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Anya Taylor-Joy's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Anya Taylor-Joy's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Anya Taylor-Joy's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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