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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dog, with 
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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 1880
2010
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Taraji’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Taraji sits
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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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Taraji P. Henson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
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
Taraji’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.4° to 2.4° orb
Taraji’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
Taraji’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.6° to 4.6° orb
Taraji’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.3° orb
Taraji’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto5.7° to 6.7° orb
Taraji’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.8° orb
Taraji’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 8°58′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Taraji may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 7°39′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Taraji is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosCapricorn 3°39′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Taraji is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLeo 1°08′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Taraji at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 0°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Taraji exacting with themselves first.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Taraji’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Taraji is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Taraji’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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Taraji P. Henson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
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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
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Other Evergreen Storytellers
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Taraji’s cards
Every card is computed from September 11, 1970, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Taraji P. Henson, 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
Taraji’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q235511, 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 Joel Kowsky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Taraji P. Henson at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog.
- 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 time was Taraji P. Henson 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 Taraji P. Henson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the September 11, 1970 birth date.
- What is Taraji P. Henson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 11, 1970 birth date.
- 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.
