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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rat, with 
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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 1880
2024
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Issa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Issa 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 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.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Issa Rae's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
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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
Issa’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.7° orb
Issa’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunsextileSaturnapplying · 3.2° orb
Issa’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 3.2° orb
Issa’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenusconjunctionMarsapplying · 4.8° orb
Issa’s affections and drive act as one.
VenustrinePlutoseparating · 4.8° orb
Issa’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoonsquareNeptuneseparating · 5.9° orb
Issa’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 6.4° orb
Issa’s feelings grind against their mind.
VenussquareUranusapplying · 6.6° orb
Issa’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 3°42′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Issa turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresTaurus 11°47′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Issa is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAquarius 23°57′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Issa is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 29°43′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Issa is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 14°21′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Issa carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- 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°
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°).
Issa’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Issa 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 Issa’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
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 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.
- 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
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| 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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Issa’s cards
Every card is computed from January 12, 1985, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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 data comes from
Issa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13560267, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat.
- 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 from the January 12, 1985 birth date.
- What is Issa Rae's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 12, 1985 birth time.
- 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.
