Ruth Negga
Ruth Negga (born May 4, 1981, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), aged 45, is an Ethiopian-Irish actress. Negga's honours include Ian Charleson Awards and OkayAfrica 100 Women.
Ruth Negga’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rooster, with 
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Ruth Negga’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Ruth in the U.S.?
#173
US rank in 2025
~838,901
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ruth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 5 · 7 · 8
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
The record
What sets Ruth apart
Audrey Hepburn (1929) and Fernandinho (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ruth, according to the stars
Core essence
Ruth 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 Ruth 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, Ruth is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Ruth needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Ruth wants to be loved
Ruth wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Ruth is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Ruth creates
How Ruth makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Ruth creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Ruth is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Ruth is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Ruth leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Ruth 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 Ruth's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ruth 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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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Ruth Negga's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 4, 1981, 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 Rooster
Metal RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Ruth Negga was born on May 4, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
Ruth Negga's birth date, May 4, 1981, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Ruth’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ruth Negga's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ruth Negga combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Ruth’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ruth Negga, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 24° Taurus 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.4° to 1.3° orb
Ruth’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.1° orb
Ruth’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.5° to 2.6° orb
Ruth’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.6° orb
Ruth’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.8° orb
Ruth’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.9° to 7.2° orb
Ruth’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMars6.9° to 7.1° orb
Ruth’s core identity and drive act as one.
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 2.5° to 17.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 4.4° to 19.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Ruth’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 17°44′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Ruth building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresCancer 26°09′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Ruth is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosPisces 16°20′ (moves 0.54° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Ruth is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°54′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Ruth needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Ruth is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.2°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.5°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.6°
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°).
Ruth’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. ♀ Venus13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun2 pts
2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ruth 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 Ruth’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.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ruth Negga, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on May 4
- Audrey Hepburn1929
- Fernandinho1985
- George Tupou V of Tonga1948
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Ruth’s cards
Every card is computed from May 4, 1981, 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 Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ruth Negga, 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
Ruth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3453629, 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ruth Negga at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.
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 Ruth Negga.
Quick answers about Ruth Negga’s chart
- How old is Ruth Negga?
- Ruth Negga is 45 years old, born May 4, 1981 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- What zodiac sign is Ruth Negga?
- Ruth Negga is a Taurus: born May 4, 1981, 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 Rooster.
- What is Ruth Negga's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 4, 1981 birth.
- What time was Ruth Negga 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 Ruth Negga's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the May 4, 1981 birth date.
- What is Ruth Negga's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 4, 1981 birth date.
- Where is Ruth Negga's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ruth Negga's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
