Tracee Ellis Ross
Tracee Ellis Ross (born October 29, 1972, Los Angeles, United States, 17:59), aged 53, is an American actress. Ross is best known for Cold Copy, Candy Cane Lane and American Fiction. Ross's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Time 100 and BET Awards.
Tracee Ellis Ross’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
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Tracee Ellis Ross’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
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Tracee’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Tracee, according to the stars
Core essence
Tracee does not do surface. The core of Tracee is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Tracee is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Tracee needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Tracee needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Tracee wants to be loved
Tracee 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 Tracee and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Tracee creates
How Tracee makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Tracee creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Tracee is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Tracee is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
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. Tracee fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Tracee's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Tracee sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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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The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Tracee Ellis Ross's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Tracee Ellis Ross was born on October 29, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Tracee Ellis Ross's birth date, October 29, 1972, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Tracee’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Tracee Ellis Ross' timed chart: Sun in the 7th house, Moon in the 4th house and Mercury in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Tracee Ellis Ross' timed chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Tracee Ellis Ross combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Tracee’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercurysextileVenusseparating · 0.1° orb
Tracee’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SaturntrineUranusapplying · 0.1° orb
Tracee’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.8° orb
Tracee’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarsconjunctionUranusapplying · 0.9° orb
Tracee’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MarstrineSaturnapplying · 1.0° orb
Tracee’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
MoonsextileMarsapplying · 1.3° orb
Tracee’s feelings open doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 1.4° orb
Tracee’s growth grinds against their depths.
SunsextileJupiterseparating · 2.1° orb
Tracee’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
MoonsextileUranusapplying · 2.2° orb
Tracee’s feelings open doors for their need for freedom.
MoonsextileSaturnapplying · 2.3° orb
Tracee’s feelings open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 4.1° orb
Tracee’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 4.2° orb
Tracee’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 4.8° orb
Tracee’s mind and imagination act as one.
VenussextileNeptuneapplying · 4.9° orb
Tracee’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenussquareJupiterapplying · 5.6° orb
Tracee’s affections grind against their growth.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Tracee’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 14°07′ · House 12
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Tracee may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLibra 26°51′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Tracee is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosAquarius 23°04′ · House 10
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. Tracee is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 8°58′ · House 8
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Tracee is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°44′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Tracee is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Ascendant 1.8°
- Eros square Ascendant 2.9°
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°).
Tracee’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon; angular in the seventh house; 1 major aspect
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Tracee is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Tracee’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.0°
- Moon semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
Tracee’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 5 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Scorpio, house 7 | Saturn | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 4 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Scorpio, house 7 | Moon | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Scorpio, house 7 | Venus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 5 | Mars, Uranus, Pluto | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 6 | Sun, Mercury | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 9 | Neptune | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Gemini, house 2 | Jupiter | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 6 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 8 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Libra, house 6 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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2 relatives of Tracee Ellis Ross also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
Born the same day as Tracee
Gabrielle Union was born on October 29, 1972 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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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Tracee’s cards
Every card is computed from October 29, 1972, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Tracee’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q534371, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Christopher Peterson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Tracee Ellis Ross’s chart
- How old is Tracee Ellis Ross?
- Tracee Ellis Ross is 53 years old, born October 29, 1972 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Tracee Ellis Ross?
- Tracee Ellis Ross is a Scorpio: born October 29, 1972, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
- What is Tracee Ellis Ross's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 29, 1972 birth.
- What time was Tracee Ellis Ross born?
- 17:59 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Tracee Ellis Ross's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 17:59 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Tracee Ellis Ross?
- Tracee Ellis Ross is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Tracee Ellis Ross's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the October 29, 1972 birth date.
- What is Tracee Ellis Ross's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 29, 1972 birth time.
- Where is Tracee Ellis Ross's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 27°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Tracee Ellis Ross's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
