Issa Rae
Issa Rae (born January 12, 1985, Los Angeles, United States, 12:24), aged 41, is an American actress, writer and producer. Rae is best known for Insecure. Rae's honours include Time 100, OkayAfrica 100 Women and Gracie Awards.
Issa Rae’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Issa
Issa Rae’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Issa in the U.S.?
#1682
US rank in 2025
~3,217
Americans share it since 1969
2024
its peak year
In 1985, 14 American boys and 9 girls were registered Issa — 3,287th among boys and 7,170th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Issa’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on I (9) 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
Issa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
The record
What sets Issa apart
Haruki Murakami (1949) and Jeff Bezos (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Issa, according to the stars
Core essence
Issa is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Issa is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Issa cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Issa needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Issa wants to be loved
Issa 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 Issa, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Issa creates
How Issa makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Issa creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Issa 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Issa 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Issa slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Issa's birth date. Working below.
Where Issa sits
Six lines
Issa’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Issa Rae
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Los Angeles at 12:24, Issa Rae’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, at the documented birth time.
Sadr stood nearest the zenith over Los Angeles at the birth hour, 82.5° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
Los Angeles sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun -34° below the horizon, Moon down and 63% lit at last quarter.
What Issa's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Elder 天梁 in 午
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Capricorn · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Issa Rae's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What Capricorn means →Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
Issa Rae was born on January 12, 1985, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Issa Rae's birth date, January 12, 1985, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Issa’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Issa Rae's timed chart: Saturn in the 7th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Issa Rae's timed chart is Mercury conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Issa Rae combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Issa’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 0.5° orb
Issa’s mind and imagination act as one.
SunconjunctionJupiterapplying · 1.6° orb
Issa’s core identity and growth act as one.
JupitersextileSaturnapplying · 1.6° orb
Issa’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarssquareUranusapplying · 1.8° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.7° orb
SunsextileSaturnapplying · 3.2° orb
MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 3.2° orb
VenusconjunctionMarsapplying · 4.8° orb
VenustrinePlutoseparating · 4.8° orb
MoonsquareNeptuneseparating · 5.9° orb
MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 6.4° orb
VenussquareUranusapplying · 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Issa’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 3°42′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 11°47′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 23°57′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 29°43′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 14°21′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.7°
- Ceres conjunction Ascendant 1.8°
- Eros square Saturn 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.4°
Issa’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Libra; rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto7 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Issa’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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.
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.8°
- Moon quincunx Venus 1.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
Issa’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 11 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 9 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Libra, house 6 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 9 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 9 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 11 | Moon | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Scorpio, house 7 | Saturn, Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 9 | Uranus | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 7 | Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Sagittarius, house 8 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Capricorn, house 9 | Venus, Mars | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Pisces, house 11 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Issa’s cards
Computed from January 12, 1985. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Issa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13560267 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Bea Phi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Issa Rae at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Issa Rae.
Quick answers about Issa Rae’s chart
- How old is Issa Rae?
- Issa Rae is 41 years old, born January 12, 1985 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Issa Rae?
- Issa Rae is a Capricorn: born January 12, 1985, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
- What is Issa Rae's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 12, 1985 birth.
- What time was Issa Rae born?
- 12:24 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Issa Rae's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 12:24 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Issa Rae's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Issa Rae's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Issa Rae's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 14°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Issa Rae's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Libra; rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
