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Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke (born September 12, 1973, The Bronx, United States), aged 53, is an American civil rights activist. Burke is best known for MeToo movement. Burke's honours include Time Person of the Year, Time 100 and BBC 100 Women.

Tarana Burke’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

Your match with Tarana

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Tarana Burke’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Explorer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

What Tarana’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

11

Soul Urge · insight

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on T (2) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 2: drive against tact.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Tarana’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus

Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1973, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Tarana apart

MeToo movement. That is the work the name is attached to.

Study took Tarana Burke to Auburn University and Alabama State University.

Tarana Burke was 30 when the work began in 2003.

Paul Walker and Janelle Brown shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.

Known for
MeToo movement
Educated at
Auburn University and Alabama State University
Awards
Time Person of the Year (2017), Time 100 (2018) and BBC 100 Women (2022)
Working from
2003
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
47

What the chart says

Tarana, according to the stars

Core essence

Tarana 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 Tarana is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Tarana is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Tarana needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Tarana wants to be loved

Tarana wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Tarana gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Tarana creates

How Tarana makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Tarana creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Tarana 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Tarana is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Tarana 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 Tarana's birth date. Working below.

Where Tarana sits

Six lines

Tarana’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Tarana

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tarana

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Tarana

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Tarana

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Tarana

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Tarana

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Tarana Burke

Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Tarana’s birth-night reference starFawarisblue-white · CygnusFawaris, in Cygnus. A blue-white star, 85.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Fawaris →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 10.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over The Bronx that night

Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 4.8° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.

The Bronx sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 20° down.

How unusual Tarana's chart is

Chart pattern score

42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Saturn · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Tarana Burke's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 12, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Water Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Tarana Burke was born on September 12, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Tarana Burke's birth date, September 12, 1973, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Tarana’s chart

Tarana’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 0° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 0.4° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.2° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.5° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4.5° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 4.5° orbSun in Virgo · 19°44′☉19°Moon in Pisces · 20°06′☽20°Mercury in Virgo · 28°15′☿28°Venus in Libra · 29°10′♀29°Mars in Taurus · 8°53′♂8°Jupiter in Aquarius · 2°42′ · retrograde♃℞2°Saturn in Cancer · 3°40′♄3°Uranus in Libra · 21°21′♅21°Neptune in Sagittarius · 4°52′♆4°Pluto in Libra · 3°43′♇3°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb

    Tarana’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunoppositionMoon0.1° to 6.5° orb

    Tarana’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto1.0° to 1.1° orb

    Tarana’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter2.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter3.6° to 5.4° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn4.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn4.6° to 6.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.6° to 6.3° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter6.1° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 2.4° to 13.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Tarana’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 19°53′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 11°14′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLibra 25°16′ (moves 0.74° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 14°25′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 3°07′ (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 opposition Saturn 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.6°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.5°

Tarana’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Tarana’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars biquintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.0°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.2°
  • Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°

Born the same day as Tarana

2 other people here were born on September 12, 1973, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.8°N, the sky above The Bronx stops at −49.2° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Tarana’s cards

Computed from September 12, 1973. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Explorer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Tarana’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q43177774 (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 Brittany "B.Monét" Fennell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Tarana Burke at Wikipedia, metoomvmt.org and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tarana Burke.

Quick answers about Tarana Burke’s chart

How old is Tarana Burke?
Tarana Burke is 53 years old, born September 12, 1973 in The Bronx, United States.
What zodiac sign is Tarana Burke?
Tarana Burke is a Virgo: born September 12, 1973, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Tarana Burke's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 12, 1973 birth.
What is Tarana Burke's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Tarana Burke's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Tarana Burke's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Tarana Burke's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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