Tracee Ellis Ross
Tracee Ellis Ross (born October 29, 1972, Los Angeles, United States, 17:59), aged 54, 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, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Tracee
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.
How common is the name Tracee in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~3,423
Americans share it since 1951
1973
its peak year
Tracee ranked 971st in 1972, the year of this birth, with 125 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Tracee’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
22
Soul Urge · legacy
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on T (2) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Tracee’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Tracee apart
The shelf Tracee Ellis Ross is read from: Girlfriends, American Fiction and Candy Cane Lane.
Training came by way of William Esper Studio and Riverdale Country School.
The working life starts in 1996, at 24.
Tracee Ellis Ross was born to Diana Ross and Robert Ellis Silberstein.
The same date carries Gabrielle Union. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Girlfriends, American Fiction and Candy Cane Lane
- Educated at
- William Esper Studio, Riverdale Country School and Brown University
- Awards
- Time 100 (2021), BET Awards (2005) and NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Comedy Series (2007)
- Working from
- 1996
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 32
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. Working below.
Where Tracee sits
Six lines
Tracee’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
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Read from the sky above Los Angeles at 17:59, Tracee Ellis Ross’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Los Angeles at the birth hour: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 1.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.1°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 Los Angeles at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 41% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.
What Tracee's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Elder 天梁 in 丑
Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Outer world
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Tracee Ellis Ross's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 4 means →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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
MarstrineSaturnapplying · 1.0° orb
MoonsextileMarsapplying · 1.3° orb
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 1.4° orb
SunsextileJupiterseparating · 2.1° orb
MoonsextileUranusapplying · 2.2° orb
MoonsextileSaturnapplying · 2.3° orb
MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 4.1° orb
VenusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 4.2° orb
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 4.8° orb
VenussextileNeptuneapplying · 4.9° orb
VenussquareJupiterapplying · 5.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 14°07′ · House 12
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 26°51′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 23°04′ · House 10
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 8°58′ · House 8
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°44′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Tracee’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Tracee’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| 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 and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 34.1°N, the sky above Los Angeles stops at −55.9° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on October 29
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf1938
- Winona Ryder1971
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- Ma Huateng1971
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- Beth Chapman1967
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- Lexi UnderwoodAmerican actress and singer
- Au/RaGerman-Antiguan singer
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Other Tidal Architects
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- Baron BrowningAmerican football linebacker
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- Charlie KolarAmerican football player (born 1999)
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- Serena WilliamsAmerican tennis player
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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
Computed from October 29, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmperorAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
4 · Architect♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Tracee’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q534371 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Christopher Peterson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tracee Ellis Ross.
Quick answers about Tracee Ellis Ross’s chart
- How old is Tracee Ellis Ross?
- Tracee Ellis Ross is 54 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.
- 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.
- What is Tracee Ellis Ross's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 14°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
