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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Ox, with 
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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.
Tarana’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Tarana 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps 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. 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.
Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Tarana Burke was born on September 12, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Tarana Burke's birth date, September 12, 1973, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Tarana’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tarana Burke's date-only chart is Saturn square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Tarana Burke combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Tarana’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Tarana Burke, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Pisces 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.
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
Tarana’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb
Tarana’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareJupiter2.9° to 4.1° orb
Tarana’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.6° to 5.4° orb
Tarana’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineSaturn4.0° to 5.1° orb
Tarana’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.6° to 6.3° orb
Tarana’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.6° to 6.3° orb
Tarana’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquareJupiter6.1° to 6.3° orb
Tarana’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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 19°53′ (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: Tarana may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 11°14′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Tarana is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLibra 25°16′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Tarana is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 14°25′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Tarana is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 3°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Tarana is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.6°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.5°
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°).
Tarana’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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Tarana 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 Tarana’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.
Yod 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tarana Burke, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Tarana
2 other people here were born on September 12, 1973, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Tarana’s cards
Every card is computed from September 12, 1973, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Tarana Burke, 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
Tarana’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q43177774, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox.
- 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 time was Tarana Burke 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 Tarana Burke's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the September 12, 1973 birth date.
- What is Tarana Burke's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 12, 1973 birth date.
- 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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