Taraji P. Henson
Taraji P. Henson (born September 11, 1970, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 56, is an American actress. Notable films include House M.D., The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Henson's honours include NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, BET Award for Best Actor & Actress and NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special.
Taraji P. Henson’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Taraji
Taraji P. Henson’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Taraji in the U.S.?
#7853
US rank in 2025
~2,814
Americans share it since 2002
2010
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Taraji falls under that line for 1970. Its peak came in 2010, and 2,814 Americans have carried it since 2002.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Taraji’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
22
Soul Urge · legacy
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on T (2) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Taraji’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
The record
What sets Taraji apart
Taraji P. Henson took the BET Award for Best Actor & Actress in 2009, at 39.
The classrooms behind this chart: Oxon Hill High School and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
The working life starts in 1992, at 22.
Julia Nickson-Soul (1958) and Mike Comrie (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Oxon Hill High School, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and Howard University
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special (2012), BET Award for Best Actor & Actress (2009) and NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2014)
- Nominated for
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series and Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture
- Working from
- 1992
- Wikipedia editions
- 50
What the chart says
Taraji, according to the stars
Core essence
Taraji notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Taraji is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Taraji wants to be loved
Taraji wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Taraji even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Taraji creates
How Taraji 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. Taraji 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: Taraji is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Taraji 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 Taraji leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Taraji 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 Taraji's birth date. Working below.
Where Taraji sits
Six lines
Taraji’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 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 Taraji P. Henson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Washington was Sulafat, in Lyra, 82.9° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Washington on any night.
Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon up and 84% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Taraji's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · 1 unaspected planet · No Fire planets
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 →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Taraji P. Henson's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 11, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Taraji P. Henson was born on September 11, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Taraji P. Henson's birth date, September 11, 1970, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Taraji’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Taraji P. Henson's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Fire.
- Taraji P. Henson combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Taraji’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
Taraji’s affections and growth act as one.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.8° to 1.3° orb
Taraji’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileMars1.1° to 1.4° orb
Taraji’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.2° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.4° to 2.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto5.7° to 6.7° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Taraji’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 8°58′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 7°39′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 3°39′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 1°08′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 0°54′ (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 0.5°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.1°
- Eros trine Mars 1.7°
- Ceres trine Mars 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.5°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.7°
- Hygiea square Venus 3.0°
Taraji’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Taraji’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, PlutoThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.6°
More people like Taraji
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- DMX1970
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- Bethenny Frankel1970
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Born in United States
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More charts like Taraji’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Maurice MaeterlinckBelgian playwright and essayist
- Albrecht KosselGerman biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics
- Hans KrebsGerman-British biochemist
Born in Dog years
- Mo IbrahimSudanese-British businessman
- ShroudCanadian streamer
- Frankie GrandeAmerican actor, dancer, singer, producer
Also born on September 11
- Julia Nickson-Soul1958
- Mike Comrie1980
- Charles Kelley1981
- Phillip Alford1948
- Harry Connick Jr.1967
- Amy Madigan1950
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Jill BidenAmerican educator and First Lady of the United States from 2021 to 2025
- Fidel CastroCuban politician, author and revolutionary
- Condoleezza RiceAmerican diplomat and political scientist (born 1954)
Other Virgo Dog charts
- Leonard CohenCanadian singer, songwriter and poet
- Sophia LorenItalian actress
- Andrea BocelliItalian tenor and singer-songwriter
- Tim BurtonAmerican filmmaker and artist
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Tobey MaguireAmerican actor and film producer
- Sally FieldAmerican actress
- Danny DeVitoAmerican actor, comedian, director and producer
- John HowardPrime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Jenna Bush HagerAmerican journalist, author, and television personality
- David BoreanazAmerican actor
- Marcia CrossAmerican actress
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Taraji’s cards
Computed from September 11, 1970. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Taraji’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235511 (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 Joel Kowsky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Taraji P. Henson.
Quick answers about Taraji P. Henson’s chart
- How old is Taraji P. Henson?
- Taraji P. Henson is 56 years old, born September 11, 1970 in Washington, D.C., United States.
- What zodiac sign is Taraji P. Henson?
- Taraji P. Henson is a Virgo: born September 11, 1970, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Taraji P. Henson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 11, 1970 birth.
- What is Taraji P. Henson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Taraji P. Henson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Taraji P. Henson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Taraji P. Henson's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
