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Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones (born November 30, 1970, Atlanta, United States), aged 55, is an American writer. Jones's honours include Women's Prize for Fiction, Lillian Smith Book Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Tayari Jones’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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Tayari Jones’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Explorer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

Tayari’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

22 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Rose-gold · Silver

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Tayari, according to the stars

Core essence

Tayari is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Tayari is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Tayari wants to be loved

Tayari 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 Tayari even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Tayari creates

How Tayari 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. Tayari 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: Tayari 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 22 is the master builder. Tayari is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Tayari fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Tayari's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Tayari sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Tayari

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tayari

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Tayari

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Tayari

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Tayari

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Tayari

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Tayari Jones

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

Tayari’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 87.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 41.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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.

If you only read one paragraph

Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Tayari Jones's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 30, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.

Metal Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Tayari Jones was born on November 30, 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 22

Dreams at full scale.

Tayari Jones's birth date, November 30, 1970, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.

What stands out in Tayari’s chart

Tayari’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Tayari Jones, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.5° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.7° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.2° orbJupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.5° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.4° orbMoon fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.9° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4.9° orbSun in Sagittarius · 8°05′☉8°Moon in Capricorn · 1°06′☽1°Mercury in Sagittarius · 26°14′☿26°Venus in Scorpio · 9°47′♀9°Mars in Libra · 26°12′♂26°Jupiter in Scorpio · 21°10′♃21°Saturn in Taurus · 17°39′ · retrograde♄℞17°Uranus in Libra · 12°29′♅12°Neptune in Sagittarius · 0°54′♆0°Pluto in Virgo · 29°25′♇29°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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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.

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Tayari’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb

    Tayari’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto2.5° to 3.9° orb

    Tayari’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.4° to 3.7° orb

    Tayari’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.9° to 4.9° orb

    Tayari’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.7° to 7.7° orb

    Tayari’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn7.8° to 7.9° orb

    Tayari’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 1.8° to 15.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 4.5° to 18.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Tayari’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 5°60′ (moves 0.02° 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: Tayari may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 24°06′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Tayari looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 6°43′ (moves 0.53° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Tayari is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 17°05′ (moves 0.05° 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 Tayari at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 9°49′ (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 Tayari 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.

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.0°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Sun 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.7°
  • Chiron trine Sun 2.1°
  • Ceres trine Mercury 2.1°
  • Ceres opposition Mars 2.1°

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°).

Tayari’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. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Tayari is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.

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 Tayari’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, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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 biquintile Uranus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.7°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tayari Jones, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Tayari’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Emperor

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Explorer

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Western zodiac

Sagittarius

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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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

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Tayari Jones, 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

Tayari’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7689755, 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 Nbf2926, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Tayari Jones at Wikipedia.

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 Tayari Jones.

Quick answers about Tayari Jones’s chart

How old is Tayari Jones?
Tayari Jones is 55 years old, born November 30, 1970 in Atlanta, United States.
What zodiac sign is Tayari Jones?
Tayari Jones is a Sagittarius: born November 30, 1970, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog.
What is Tayari Jones's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 30, 1970 birth.
What time was Tayari Jones 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 Tayari Jones's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the November 30, 1970 birth date.
What is Tayari Jones's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 30, 1970 birth date.
Where is Tayari Jones's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Tayari Jones's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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