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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, Chinese zodiac is 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.

What Tayari’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

2

Expression · connecting people

22

Soul Urge · legacy

7

Personality · composed, private

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

Tayari’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Tayari apart

Winston Churchill (1874) and Ben Stiller (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Tayari sits

Six lines

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

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 →

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

The sky over Atlanta that night

Computed for 33.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Mirach stood nearest the zenith over Atlanta at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.7° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 33.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Atlanta at all: they sit past the −56.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 6% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Tayari's chart is

Chart pattern score

36 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 2 planets 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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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.

What Sagittarius means →

Metal Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Tayari Jones was born on November 30, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

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.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in Tayari’s chart

Tayari’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

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.

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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

  • 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

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.9° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.7° to 7.7° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn7.8° to 7.9° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 5°60′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

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

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

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

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 17°05′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 9°49′ (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 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°

Tayari’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Tayari’s chart

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

  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.7°

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Tayari’s cards

Computed from November 30, 1970. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Emperor

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

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

The same Tayari Jones at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Tayari Jones's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What is Tayari Jones's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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