Terence Tao
Terence Tao (born July 17, 1975, Adelaide, Australia), aged 51, is an Australian-American mathematician. Tao is best known for Dantzig selector. Tao's honours include Fields medal, Australian Mathematical Society Medal and SASTRA Ramanujan Prize.
Terence Tao’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Terence
Terence Tao’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Terence in the U.S.?
#2753
US rank in 2025
~34,460
Americans share it since 1885
1964
its peak year
The SSA recorded 480 American boys and 8 girls named Terence in 1975: 352nd among boys and 7,097th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Terence’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on T (2) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Terence’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
The record
What sets Terence apart
Angela Merkel (1954) and Queen Camilla (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Terence, according to the stars
Core essence
Terence feels the room before entering it. The core of Terence is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Terence, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Terence feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Terence needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Terence wants to be loved
Terence wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Terence and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Terence creates
How Terence 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. Terence 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: Terence is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Terence 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 Terence leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Terence 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 Terence's birth date. Working below.
Where Terence sits
Six lines
Terence’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Terence Tao
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Adelaide on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Adelaide that night
Computed for 34.93°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Antares stood nearest the zenith over Adelaide at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.4° above the horizon in Scorpius.
Canopus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 69 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 34.9°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The Moon, 68% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.
How unusual Terence's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Neptune · 3-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Sun
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Terence Tao's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 17, 1975, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Rabbit
Wood RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Terence Tao was born on July 17, 1975, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Terence Tao's birth date, July 17, 1975, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Terence’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Terence Tao's date-only chart is Sun square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Terence Tao combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Terence’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonoppositionMars0.0° to 7.3° orb
Terence’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsquareJupiter0.1° to 1.0° orb
Terence’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercurysquarePluto0.1° to 1.8° orb
Terence’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareSaturn0.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.8° to 1.6° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° orb
stableMercurysextileMars2.9° to 4.0° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsquareUranus4.0° to 4.9° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.6° to 5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Terence’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 28°04′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 27°21′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 22°46′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 19°15′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 18°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Saturn 0.1°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 0.6°
- Eros square Sun 1.1°
Terence’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Terence’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Uranus, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Neptune · Mercury, Mars, NeptuneTwo 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.8°
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.8°
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Fellow Cancer suns
- Andrea BarberAmerican actress (born 1976)
- Kathy BatesAmerican film actress and director
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Born in Rabbit years
- Ray BolgerAmerican actor
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- John CleeseEnglish comedian and actor (born 1939)
Also born on July 17
- Angela Merkel1954
- Queen Camilla1947
- Kali Uchis1994
- Alex Winter1965
- Luke Bryan1976
- Tony Dovolani1973
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Spencer PrattAmerican television personality
- Kelly PrestonAmerican actress
- Sadie RobertsonAmerican television personality
Other Cancer Rabbit charts
- Charlie ApplebyBritish racehorse trainer
- DaRon BlandAmerican football player
- Chandler RiggsAmerican actor
- Markéta VondroušováCzech tennis player
Other Evergreen Strategists
- Mikhail ShaidorovKazakhstani figure skater
- Julien AlfredSaint Lucian sprinter (born 2001)
- Ja MorantAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- LaufeyIcelandic singer-songwriter (born 1999)
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Marvin GayeAmerican R&B and soul singer
- Jimmy PageEnglish guitarist
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Terence’s cards
Computed from July 17, 1975. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Terence’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295981 (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 Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Terence Tao at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Terence Tao.
Quick answers about Terence Tao’s chart
- How old is Terence Tao?
- Terence Tao is 51 years old, born July 17, 1975 in Adelaide, Australia.
- What zodiac sign is Terence Tao?
- Terence Tao is a Cancer: born July 17, 1975, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Terence Tao's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 17, 1975 birth.
- What is Terence Tao's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Terence Tao's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Terence Tao's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Terence Tao's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
