Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham (born May 9, 1950, New York City, United States), aged 76, is an American poet. Graham's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Rome Prize and MacArthur Fellows Program.
Jorie Graham’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Tiger, with 
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Jorie Graham’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Jorie in the U.S.?
#4931
US rank in 2025
~1,358
Americans share it since 1880
1991
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Jorie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Jorie, according to the stars
Core essence
Jorie is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Jorie is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Jorie wants to be loved
Jorie wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Jorie creates
How Jorie makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Jorie builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Jorie is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Jorie is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Jorie channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Jorie's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jorie sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Jorie Graham's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 9, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
Jorie Graham was born on May 9, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Better with someone at their back.
Jorie Graham's birth date, May 9, 1950, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Jorie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jorie Graham's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Jorie Graham combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Jorie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jorie Graham, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Aquarius or Pisces 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.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° to 0.7° orb
Jorie’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquareUranus1.2° to 2.3° orb
Jorie’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb
Jorie’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquarePluto2.2° to 3.1° orb
Jorie’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineMars3.3° to 4.2° orb
Jorie’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableMercurytrineMars3.6° to 4.1° orb
Jorie’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineSaturn5.4° to 6.3° orb
Jorie’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.6° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 2.7° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 4.9° to 17.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Jorie’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 ℞Sagittarius 20°40′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Jorie building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 17°48′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Jorie is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosGemini 17°33′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Jorie is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 21°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Jorie is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 13°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Jorie is read as immovable on those points.
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 square Mars 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.6°
- Chiron square Mars 1.6°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.0°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.6°
- Ceres sextile 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°).
Jorie’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Jorie 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 Jorie’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jorie Graham, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Jorie’s cards
Every card is computed from May 9, 1950, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jorie Graham, 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
Jorie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6278867, 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 Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jorie Graham at Wikipedia.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jorie Graham.
Quick answers about Jorie Graham’s chart
- How old is Jorie Graham?
- Jorie Graham is 76 years old, born May 9, 1950 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jorie Graham?
- Jorie Graham is a Taurus: born May 9, 1950, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger.
- What is Jorie Graham's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 9, 1950 birth.
- What time was Jorie Graham 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 is Jorie Graham's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the May 9, 1950 birth date.
- What is Jorie Graham's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 9, 1950 birth date.
- Where is Jorie Graham's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jorie Graham's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
