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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~77,849
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Greg’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Greg sits
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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.
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Greg Tate in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Greg Tate, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Greg’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.5° to 1.0° orb
Greg’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileUranus1.9° to 2.5° orb
Greg’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.3° to 4.0° orb
Greg’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.3° to 2.9° orb
Greg’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.7° to 4.4° orb
Greg’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.8° to 3.0° orb
Greg’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquarePluto3.0° to 4.1° orb
Greg’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.3° to 3.4° orb
Greg’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 12°17′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Greg making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCancer 23°47′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Greg is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosLibra 29°15′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Greg is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 11°59′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Greg feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 15°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Greg is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Greg’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Greg is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Greg’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Greg Tate, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Greg’s cards
Every card is computed from October 14, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Greg Tate, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Greg’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5606320, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rooster.
- 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 time was Greg Tate born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Greg Tate's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the October 14, 1957 birth date.
- What was Greg Tate's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 14, 1957 birth date.
- 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.
