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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rabbit, with 
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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 1880
1964
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Terence’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Terence Tao, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Scorpio 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.
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
Terence’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.8° to 1.6° orb
Terence’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.0° to 3.2° orb
Terence’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° orb
Terence’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileMars2.9° to 4.0° orb
Terence’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareNeptune3.9° to 4.5° orb
Terence’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareUranus4.0° to 4.9° orb
Terence’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus5.0° to 5.1° orb
Terence’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.6° to 5.8° orb
Terence’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 28°04′ (moves 0.01° 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: Terence may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresTaurus 27°21′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Terence is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosLibra 22°46′ (moves 0.58° 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. Terence is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaGemini 19°15′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Terence needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 18°02′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Terence is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Eros square Saturn 0.1°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.3°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 0.6°
- Eros square Sun 1.1°
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°).
Terence’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. ☽ 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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Terence is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 Terence’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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Terence Tao, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Terence’s cards
Every card is computed from July 17, 1975, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Terence Tao, 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
Terence’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q295981, 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 Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Terence Tao 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rabbit.
- 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 time was Terence Tao 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 Terence Tao's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the July 17, 1975 birth date.
- What is Terence Tao's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 17, 1975 birth date.
- 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.
