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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Jorie
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 1949
1991
its peak year
Jorie ranked 5,657th in 1950, the year of this birth, with 5 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jorie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jorie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1950, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Jorie apart
Jorie Graham took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982, at 32.
Training came by way of New York University Tisch School of the Arts and University of Iowa.
The family line: born to Beverly Pepper and Curtis Bill Pepper.
Wikipedia's editors put Jorie Graham under University of Iowa alumni, Poets from New York City and American expatriates in Italy.
Shaboozey (1995) and Willyrex (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts and University of Iowa
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1982), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1996) and MacArthur Fellows Program (1990)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
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. Working below.
Where Jorie sits
Six lines
Jorie’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Jorie Graham
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 10.1° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 39% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 10° below the horizon.
How unusual Jorie's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 3° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSuntrineMars3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableMercurytrineMars3.6° to 4.1° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.4° to 6.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 20°40′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 17°48′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 17°33′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 21°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 13°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Jorie’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Jorie’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.7°
More people like Jorie
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- George Ella Lyon1949
- Oscar Hijuelos1951
- John Grant1949
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Born in United States
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- Melba BoydAmerican poet
- Michael WhelanAmerican illustrator
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More charts like Jorie’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Malcolm XAmerican Black rights activist
- Al PacinoAmerican actor
- George LucasAmerican filmmaker and philanthropist
Born in Tiger years
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- Lonnie Walker IVAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Ryu Jun-yeolSouth Korean actor
Also born on May 9
- Shaboozey1995
- Willyrex1993
- Dana Perino1972
- Albert Finney1936
- John Corbett1961
- Noah Centineo1996
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Other Taurus Tiger charts
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- Bernard MalamudAmerican author
- Charles SimicSerbian born American poet
- Manning MarableAmerican professor of public affairs and African American studies at Columbia University and biographer
Other Evergreen Guardians
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- Tim BurtonAmerican filmmaker and artist
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Jorie’s cards
Computed from May 9, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
2 · Diplomat♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jorie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6278867 (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 Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jorie Graham at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Jorie Graham's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jorie Graham's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
