Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi (born August 16, 1975, Wellington, New Zealand), aged 51, is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian. Waititi is best known for Thor: Ragnarok, Thor: Love and Thunder and Jojo Rabbit. Waititi's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit and Time 100.
Taika Waititi’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Taika
Taika Waititi’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Taika in the U.S.?
#9600
US rank in 2025
~109
Americans share it since 2018
2022
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Taika falls under that line for 1975. Its peak came in 2022, and 109 Americans have carried it since 2018.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Taika’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
3
Soul Urge · being heard
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on T (2) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 9: tact against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Taika’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
The record
What sets Taika apart
What keeps Taika Waititi in print: Thor: Ragnarok, Jojo Rabbit and Thor: Love and Thunder.
Training came by way of Onslow College and Victoria University of Wellington.
The working life starts in 1999, at 24.
On the family side, Taika Waititi was married Rita Ora and Chelsea Winstanley.
Madonna (1958) and James Cameron (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Thor: Ragnarok, Jojo Rabbit and Thor: Love and Thunder
- Educated at
- Onslow College and Victoria University of Wellington
- Awards
- Time 100 (2022), Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (2020) and Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (2020)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
- Working from
- 1999
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Taika, according to the stars
Core essence
Taika is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Taika is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Taika is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Taika needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Taika wants to be loved
Taika wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Taika and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Taika creates
How Taika 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. Taika 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: Taika is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Taika 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 Taika leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Taika scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Taika's birth date. Working below.
Where Taika sits
Six lines
Taika’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Taika Waititi
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wellington 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 Wellington that night
Computed for 41.29°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Wellington at 9 p.m. that evening: Kaus Australis of Sagittarius, within 7.0° of the exact zenith.
Canopus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 70 catalog stars above the horizon.
Wellington sits at 41.3°S, high enough that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The Moon, 73% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 38° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Lives in
- Los Angeles
Wikidata records Los Angeles as Taika Waititi's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Taika Waititi: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Taika's chart is
Chart pattern score
45 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · 2 planets at a critical degree · Venus retrograde
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Taika Waititi's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 16, 1975, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Taika Waititi was born on August 16, 1975, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Taika Waititi's birth date, August 16, 1975, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Taika’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Taika Waititi's date-only chart is Venus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Taika Waititi combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Taika’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Sagittarius 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
stableVenussquareNeptune0.6° to 1.0° orb
Taika’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.4° to 3.2° orb
Taika’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.6° orb
Taika’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.7° to 2.7° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.0° to 4.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn4.0° to 4.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.5° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.3° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Taika’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 28°04′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 6°27′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 10°03′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 27°40′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 21°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Venus 0.2°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.0°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.6°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 2.6°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 3.0°
Taika’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Taika’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.6°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.7°
Taika’s family here
One relative of Taika Waititi also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Taika
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Born in New Zealand
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More charts like Taika’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Jaime PresslyAmerican actress, model, and producer
- Alex RodriguezAmerican baseball player and broadcaster
- Lily PhillipsBritish pornographic actress (born 2001)
Born in Rabbit years
- Terry PegulaAmerican businessman (born 1951)
- Yusaku MaezawaJapanese billionaire and entrepreneur
- Tatjana KimRussian businesswoman, founder of Wildberries
Also born on August 16
- Madonna1958
- James Cameron1954
- Charles Bukowski1920
- Steve Carell1962
- Jannik Sinner2001
- Evanna Lynch1991
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Buster KeatonAmerican motion picture director, motion picture producer, motion picture producers and director, comedian, actor
- Alida ValliItalian actress
- Thomas MitchellAmerican actor, playwright and screenwriter
Other Leo Rabbit charts
- Heather Ann ThompsonAmerican historian
- Olesya ShmagunRussian investigative journalist
- Brandon SomAmerican poet
- John Ashberypoet from the United States of America
Other Evergreen Scholars
- Julien AlfredSaint Lucian sprinter (born 2001)
- Ja MorantAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- LaufeyIcelandic singer-songwriter (born 1999)
- Aitana BonmatíSpanish football player
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Pyotr KapitsaSoviet physicist
- Otto LoewiJewish-German pharmacologist
- Martin ChalfieAmerican biochemist, cell biologist, and university teacher (born 1947)
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Taika’s cards
Computed from August 16, 1975. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Taika’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2388576 (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 Pixoos, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Taika Waititi at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Taika Waititi.
Quick answers about Taika Waititi’s chart
- How old is Taika Waititi?
- Taika Waititi is 51 years old, born August 16, 1975 in Wellington, New Zealand.
- What zodiac sign is Taika Waititi?
- Taika Waititi is a Leo: born August 16, 1975, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Taika Waititi's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 16, 1975 birth.
- What is Taika Waititi's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Taika Waititi's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Taika Waititi's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Taika Waititi's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
