Greg Tate
Greg Tate (born October 14, 1957, Dayton, United States; died 2021), was an American writer, musician, and producer. Tate is best remembered for Writing the Future: Basquiat and the hip-hop generation.. Tate's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards.
Greg Tate’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Greg
Greg Tate’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Greg in the U.S.?
#4761
US rank in 2025
~77,849
Americans share it since 1915
1961
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1957, Greg came 127th among boys and 6,426th among girls, carried by 2,972 American boys and 5 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Greg’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
11
Soul Urge · insight
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on G (7) and closes on G (7).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Greg’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
The record
What sets Greg apart
Usher (1978) and Ralph Lauren (1939) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Greg, according to the stars
Core essence
Greg makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Greg is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Greg wants to be loved
Greg wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Greg and watch them fall for you again.
How Greg creates
How Greg 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. Greg 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: Greg is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Greg is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Greg leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Greg fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Greg's birth date. Working below.
Where Greg sits
Six lines
Greg’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Greg Tate
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dayton 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 Dayton that night
Computed for 39.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Dayton at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.8° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
From 39.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Dayton at all: they sit past the −50.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 23° below the horizon, Moon down and 67% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Greg's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Greg Tate's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 14, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Greg Tate was born on October 14, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Greg Tate's birth date, October 14, 1957, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Greg’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Greg Tate's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Greg Tate combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Greg’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 1.0° orb
Greg’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb
Greg’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.4° to 1.5° orb
Greg’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.5° to 1.0° orb
stableMarssextileUranus1.9° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.3° to 4.0° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.3° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.7° to 4.4° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.8° to 3.0° orb
stableVenussquarePluto3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.3° to 3.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Greg’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 12°17′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 23°47′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 29°15′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 11°59′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 15°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.8°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.0°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.2°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 1.3°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.8°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.0°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.1°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.3°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.4°
- Ceres square Sun 2.7°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 2.7°
Greg’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Greg’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Mars, JupiterThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on October 14
- Usher1978
- Ralph Lauren1939
- Arca1989
- Stacy Keibler1979
- Charlie Kirk1993
- Natalie Maines1974
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Christian HarrisAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Jahan DotsonAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Alim McNeillAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Libra Rooster charts
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- George KittleAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Asa NewellAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
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Other Steadfast Strategists
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- BizarrapArgentine DJ and producer (born 1998)
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Famous people with Life Path 1
- Vernon Louis ParringtonFootball coach; Pulitzer Prize Winner; Academic Professor
- Albert HackettAmerican screenwriter
- Ayad AkhtarAmerican actor and playwright
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Greg’s cards
Computed from October 14, 1957. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Greg’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5606320 (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 File:Lozgregtate.png: Alex Lozupone derivative work: Innisfree987, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Greg Tate at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Greg Tate.
Quick answers about Greg Tate’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Greg Tate?
- Greg Tate was a Libra: born October 14, 1957, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Greg Tate's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 14, 1957 birth.
- What was Greg Tate's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Greg Tate's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Greg Tate's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Greg Tate's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
