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Ime Udoka

Ime Udoka (born August 9, 1977, Portland, United States), aged 49, is an American basketball player and coach. Udoka has played for CB Gran Canaria, UCAM Murcia and Los Angeles Lakers.

Ime Udoka’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Ime Udoka’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

What Ime’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

6

Soul Urge · being needed

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on I (9) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.

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

Ime’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Gold · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Ime apart

University of San Francisco and Jefferson High School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 2000, at 23.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Ime Udoka: Brooklyn Nets assistant coaches, American expatriate basketball people in Argentina and Houston Rockets head coaches.

Whitney Houston (1963) and Gillian Anderson (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of San Francisco and Jefferson High School
Working from
2000
Sport
basketball
Citizenship
United States and Nigeria
Wikipedia editions
20

What the chart says

Ime, according to the stars

Core essence

Ime is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Ime is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Ime processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Ime needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Ime wants to be loved

Ime wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Ime gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Ime creates

How Ime makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Ime creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Ime is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ime is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Ime scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Ime's birth date. Working below.

Where Ime sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Ime

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ime

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

PrivateExpressive
Ime

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ime

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

PracticalVisionary
Ime

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ime

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ime Udoka

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Portland 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 Portland that night

Computed for 45.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Portland at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.9° above the horizon in Draco.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.

At 45.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Portland at all: they sit past the −44.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 5° below the horizon, Moon down and 21% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual Ime's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mercury · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet

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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Ime Udoka in 15 seconds

Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Ime Udoka's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 9, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Fire Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

Ime Udoka was born on August 9, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Ime Udoka's birth date, August 9, 1977, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Ime’s chart

Ime’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 24° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.1° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.9° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.3° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 1.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 2° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.3° orbSun in Leo · 17°03′☉17°Moon in Gemini · 19°01′☽19°Mercury in Virgo · 14°23′☿14°Venus in Cancer · 8°00′♀7°Mars in Gemini · 15°45′♂15°Jupiter in Gemini · 28°05′♃28°Saturn in Leo · 19°57′♄19°Uranus in Scorpio · 7°57′♅7°Neptune in Sagittarius · 13°26′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Libra · 12°03′♇12°

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

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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

  • stableVenustrineUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb

    Ime’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune0.5° to 1.4° orb

    Ime’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableSunsextileMars1.2° to 1.5° orb

    Ime’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableMercurysquareMars1.3° to 1.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune2.0° to 2.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.5° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune3.1° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMarstrinePluto3.4° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto3.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn3.9° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune6.4° to 6.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 5°47′

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

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 17°44′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 21°09′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 2°06′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 12°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.0°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 0.7°
  • Eros trine Saturn 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.3°
  • Ceres trine Mars 2.0°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 2.2°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.2°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.3°

Ime’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Ime’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Mars, Neptune, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else

Ime’s cards

Computed from August 9, 1977. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ime’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1374718 (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 All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ime Udoka at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ime Udoka.

Quick answers about Ime Udoka’s chart

How old is Ime Udoka?
Ime Udoka is 49 years old, born August 9, 1977 in Portland, United States.
What zodiac sign is Ime Udoka?
Ime Udoka is a Leo: born August 9, 1977, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Ime Udoka's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 9, 1977 birth.
How tall is Ime Udoka?
Ime Udoka is 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Ime Udoka's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Ime Udoka's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ime Udoka's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ime Udoka's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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