Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941, Portland, United States), aged 85, is an American dancer and choreographer. Tharp's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography and MacArthur Fellows Program.
Twyla Tharp’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Snake, with 
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Twyla Tharp’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Pioneer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Twyla in the U.S.?
#2995
US rank in 2025
~7,192
Americans share it since 1880
1964
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Twyla’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Twyla, according to the stars
Core essence
Twyla feels the room before entering it. The core of Twyla 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 Twyla, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Twyla wants to be loved
Twyla wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Twyla gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Twyla creates
How Twyla makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Twyla creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Twyla is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Twyla is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Twyla slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Twyla's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Twyla sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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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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.
The quick version
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Twyla Tharp's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 1, 1941, 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.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Twyla Tharp was born on July 1, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Twyla Tharp's birth date, July 1, 1941, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Twyla’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Twyla Tharp's date-only chart is Venus sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Twyla Tharp combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Pioneer.
Twyla’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Twyla Tharp, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Twyla’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenustrineMars0.4° to 1.0° orb
Twyla’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
Twyla’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileUranus0.8° to 1.3° orb
Twyla’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.1° to 2.6° orb
Twyla’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrinePluto3.2° to 3.8° orb
Twyla’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileNeptune3.3° to 4.5° orb
Twyla’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
Twyla’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.6° to 4.8° orb
Twyla’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.1° to 4.2° orb
Twyla’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.9° orb
Twyla’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranussextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
Twyla’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Twyla’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.
⚷ ChironLeo 1°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Twyla performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 29°43′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Twyla is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosCancer 3°04′ (moves 0.90° 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. Twyla is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 23°10′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Twyla is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 12°54′ (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. Twyla 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.
- Ceres square Mars 0.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.3°
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.6°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.9°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 2.6°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 3.0°
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°).
Twyla’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. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Twyla 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 Twyla’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, VenusThree 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.
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 semi-square Saturn 0.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Twyla Tharp, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Twyla
Alfred G. Gilman was born on July 1, 1941 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Twyla’s cards
Every card is computed from July 1, 1941, 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 Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Twyla Tharp, 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
Twyla’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q454336, 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 Susan Sterner.〔The original uploader was Emerson7 at English Wikipedia.〕, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Twyla Tharp at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Twyla Tharp.
Quick answers about Twyla Tharp’s chart
- How old is Twyla Tharp?
- Twyla Tharp is 85 years old, born July 1, 1941 in Portland, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Twyla Tharp?
- Twyla Tharp is a Cancer: born July 1, 1941, 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 Metal Snake.
- What is Twyla Tharp's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 1, 1941 birth.
- What time was Twyla Tharp 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 Twyla Tharp's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the July 1, 1941 birth date.
- What is Twyla Tharp's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 1, 1941 birth date.
- Where is Twyla Tharp's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Twyla Tharp's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
