Taj Gibson
Taj Gibson (born June 24, 1985, Brooklyn, United States), aged 41, is an American basketball player (born 1985). Gibson has played for New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls and USC Trojans men's basketball.
Taj Gibson’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Taj
Taj Gibson’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Taj in the U.S.?
#1667
US rank in 2025
~6,290
Americans share it since 1965
2015
its peak year
The SSA recorded 29 American boys named Taj in 1985: 2,009th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Taj’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on T (2) and closes on J (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Taj’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Pearl · Forest
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 1985, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Taj apart
Study took Taj Gibson to University of Southern California.
Taj Gibson was 24 when the work began in 2009.
Wikipedia files Taj Gibson under Basketball players from Brooklyn, USC Trojans men's basketball players and Chicago Bulls draft picks.
Ariana Madix shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- University of Southern California
- Working from
- 2009
- Sport
- basketball
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 29
What the chart says
Taj, according to the stars
Core essence
Taj feels the room before entering it. The core of Taj is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Taj, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Taj is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Taj needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Taj wants to be loved
Taj 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 Taj is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Taj creates
How Taj 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. Taj 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: Taj is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Taj is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Taj does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Taj's birth date. Working below.
Where Taj sits
Six lines
Taj’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Taj Gibson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 10.2° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brooklyn on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 42% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.
How unusual Taj's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Jupiter · Five planets 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Taj Gibson's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 24, 1985, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Ox
Wood OxReliable to the bone.
Taj Gibson was born on June 24, 1985, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Taj Gibson's birth date, June 24, 1985, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Taj’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Taj Gibson's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Taj Gibson combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Taj’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Virgo 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
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 1.7° orb
Taj’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb
Taj’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.4° to 1.3° orb
Taj’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSuntrinePluto0.6° to 1.5° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter0.9° to 2.0° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus1.1° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.3° to 4.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars6.9° to 7.2° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Taj’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 10°47′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 6°22′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 23°44′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 23°60′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 2°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.6°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.5°
Taj’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Taj’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, 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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Saturn, JupiterAn 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.
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.7°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.7°
Born the same day as Taj
Ariana Madix was born on June 24, 1985 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Taj
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Born in United States
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More charts like Taj’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- John Metchie IIITaiwanese-Canadian gridiron football player (born 2000)
- Alaric Jacksonfootball player (born 1998)
- Akayleb EvansAmerican football player (born 1999)
Born in Ox years
- Michelle TrachtenbergAmerican actress
- Kristen WiigAmerican actress and comedian
- Irina ShaykRussian model and television personality
Also born on June 24
- Lionel Messi1987
- Claudia Sheinbaum1962
- Mindy Kaling1979
- Gautam Adani1962
- Solange Knowles1986
- Mutaz Essa Barshim1991
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Terry DubrowAmerican plastic surgeon and television personality
- Dustin DiamondAmerican actor, musician, director, and stand-up comedian
- Paige DeSorboAmerican television personality (born 1992)
Other Cancer Ox charts
- Jean-Philippe MatetaFrench footballer (born 1997)
- Rodrigo BentancurUruguayan association football player
- Saša KalajdžićAustrian association football player
- Ben SkowronekAmerican football player (born 1997)
Other Evergreen Strategists
- Imane KhelifAlgerian boxer
- Peyton MeyerAmerican actor
- Juan SotoDominican baseball player (born 1998)
- Lee KnowSouth Korean singer and dancer (born 1998)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Richard LinklaterAmerican director and screenwriter (born 1960)
- Laurence OlivierEnglish actor and director
- Billy WilderAustrian and American filmmaker
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Taj’s cards
Computed from June 24, 1985. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Taj’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q348734 (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 All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Taj Gibson 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 Taj Gibson.
Quick answers about Taj Gibson’s chart
- How old is Taj Gibson?
- Taj Gibson is 41 years old, born June 24, 1985 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Taj Gibson?
- Taj Gibson is a Cancer: born June 24, 1985, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Taj Gibson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 24, 1985 birth.
- How tall is Taj Gibson?
- Taj Gibson is 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Taj Gibson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Taj Gibson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Taj Gibson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Taj Gibson's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
