Tess Holliday
Tess Holliday (born July 5, 1985, Laurel, United States), aged 41, is an American plus-size model.
Tess Holliday’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Ox, with 
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Tess Holliday’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 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Tess in the U.S.?
#1794
US rank in 2025
~14,770
Americans share it since 1880
1992
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Tess’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
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
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What sets Tess apart
The same date carries Megan Rapinoe. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
What the chart says
Tess, according to the stars
Core essence
Tess feels the room before entering it. The core of Tess 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 Tess, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Tess wants to be loved
Tess wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Tess is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Tess creates
How Tess makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Tess creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Tess 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Tess is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Tess does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Tess'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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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Laurel on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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.
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
Tess Holliday's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 5, 1985, 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 Ox
Wood OxReliable to the bone.
Tess Holliday was born on July 5, 1985, which falls in a Wood 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 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Tess Holliday's birth date, July 5, 1985, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Tess’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Tess Holliday's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Tess Holliday 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.
Tess’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Tess Holliday, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Aquarius or 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.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° orb
Tess’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.6° to 0.7° orb
Tess’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.6° to 3.9° orb
Tess’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMarstrineSaturn4.1° to 4.8° orb
Tess’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter6.3° to 7.7° orb
Tess’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.3° orb
Tess’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 1.2° to 14.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 1.2° to 14.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 2.1° to 15.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 2.8° to 15.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Tess’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 11°35′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Tess turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresCancer 11°09′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Tess is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCancer 3°32′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Tess is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaAries 26°25′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Tess feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 3°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Tess is read as immovable on those points.
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 opposition Neptune 1.6°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.8°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 2.4°
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°).
Tess’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. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 1 major aspect
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Tess 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 Tess’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 Sun · Jupiter, Uranus, SunTwo 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.- Yod onto Mars · Jupiter, Uranus, MarsTwo 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.
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.8°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.9°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 2.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Tess Holliday, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Tess
Megan Rapinoe was born on July 5, 1985 too, 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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Tess’s cards
Every card is computed from July 5, 1985, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Tess Holliday, 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
Tess’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17466519, 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.
The same Tess Holliday at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Tess Holliday.
Quick answers about Tess Holliday’s chart
- How old is Tess Holliday?
- Tess Holliday is 41 years old, born July 5, 1985 in Laurel, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tess Holliday?
- Tess Holliday is a Cancer: born July 5, 1985, 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 Ox.
- What is Tess Holliday's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 5, 1985 birth.
- What time was Tess Holliday 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 Tess Holliday's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 5, 1985 birth date.
- What is Tess Holliday's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 5, 1985 birth date.
- Where is Tess Holliday's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tess Holliday's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
