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Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966, Gulfport, United States), aged 60, is an American poet (born 1966). Trethewey's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, poet laureate and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Natasha Trethewey’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Natasha Trethewey’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Natasha in the U.S.?

#1148

US rank in 2025

~97,937

Americans share it since 1934

1987

its peak year

Natasha ranked 862nd in 1966, the year of this birth, with 135 American girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Natasha’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

9

Soul Urge · meaning

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on N (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Natasha’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

White · Blush · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1966, 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 Natasha apart

Natasha Trethewey took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003, at 37.

University of Georgia and Hollins University shaped the training.

Wikipedia's editors put Natasha Trethewey under People from Gulfport, Mississippi, University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts alumni and Writers from Mississippi.

Melania Trump (1970) and Arno Allan Penzias (1933) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Georgia, Hollins University and Redan High School
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship (2003), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2007) and Heinz Award (2017)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Natasha, according to the stars

Core essence

Natasha 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 Natasha 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Natasha is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Natasha needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Natasha wants to be loved

Natasha 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 Natasha, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Natasha creates

How Natasha makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Natasha creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Natasha is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Natasha is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Natasha is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Natasha's birth date. Working below.

Where Natasha sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Natasha

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
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You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
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You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Natasha Trethewey

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Gulfport on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Natasha’s birth-night reference starAlgiebawarm orange · LeoAlgieba, in Leo. A warm orange star, 79.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algieba →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 36.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Gulfport that night

Computed for 30.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Algieba stood nearest the zenith over Gulfport at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.6° above the horizon in Leo.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 30.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −59.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Gulfport on any night.

Sun 18° below the horizon, Moon up and 38% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Natasha's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Natasha Trethewey at a glance

Taurus Sun

Slow to move, slower to leave.

Natasha Trethewey's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 26, 1966, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Fire Horse

Happiest halfway there.

Natasha Trethewey was born on April 26, 1966, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Natasha Trethewey's birth date, April 26, 1966, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Natasha’s chart

Natasha’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.2° orbVenus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.5° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.6° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.4° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 3° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 3.6° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 4° orbSun in Taurus · 6°00′☉6°Moon in Cancer · 17°10′☽17°Mercury in Aries · 10°08′☿10°Venus in Pisces · 20°45′♀20°Mars in Taurus · 6°35′♂6°Jupiter in Gemini · 28°21′♃28°Saturn in Pisces · 25°20′♄25°Uranus in Virgo · 15°48′ · retrograde♅℞15°Neptune in Scorpio · 21°13′ · retrograde♆℞21°Pluto in Virgo · 16°03′ · retrograde♇℞16°

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

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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

  • stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Natasha’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto0.2° orb

    Natasha’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars0.5° to 0.7° orb

    Natasha’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn3.0° to 3.1° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.1° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune4.1° to 4.2° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto4.2° to 5.3° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus4.4° to 5.5° orb

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 24°34′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 7°53′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 2°56′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 20°32′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 2°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea opposition Venus 0.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.7°
  • Chiron conjunction Saturn 0.8°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 1.3°
  • Ceres conjunction Sun 1.9°

Natasha’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto

Configurations in Natasha’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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Venus semi-square Mars 0.8°
  • Jupiter biquintile Neptune 1.1°

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Natasha’s cards

Computed from April 26, 1966. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Natasha’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6968508 (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.

The same Natasha Trethewey at Wikipedia and X.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Natasha Trethewey.

Quick answers about Natasha Trethewey’s chart

How old is Natasha Trethewey?
Natasha Trethewey is 60 years old, born April 26, 1966 in Gulfport, United States.
What zodiac sign is Natasha Trethewey?
Natasha Trethewey is a Taurus: born April 26, 1966, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Natasha Trethewey's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 26, 1966 birth.
What is Natasha Trethewey's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Natasha Trethewey's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Natasha Trethewey's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Natasha Trethewey's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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