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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Twyla
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 1905
1964
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1941, Twyla came 885th, carried by 69 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Twyla’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
2
Soul Urge · closeness
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on T (2) and closes on A (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Twyla’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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 Twyla apart
Twyla Tharp took the Capezio Dance Award in 2013, at 72.
Pomona College and San Bernardino Valley College shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Twyla Tharp: Dancers from Indiana, People from Rialto, California and Pomona College alumni.
The same date carries Alfred G. Gilman. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Pomona College, San Bernardino Valley College and Columbia University
- Awards
- Capezio Dance Award (2013) and honorary doctor of Harvard University (2018)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 29
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. Working below.
Where Twyla sits
Six lines
Twyla’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Twyla Tharp
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Portland on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Portland that night
Computed for 40.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Portland at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.5° above the horizon in Boötes.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Portland on any night.
The Moon, 49% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 7° below the horizon.
How unusual Twyla's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · 2 planets at a critical degree · A bowl chart
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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 10° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.1° to 2.6° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.2° to 3.8° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune3.3° to 4.5° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto3.6° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.9° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 1°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 29°43′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 3°04′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 23°10′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 12°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Twyla’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Twyla’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.8°
Born the same day as Twyla
Alfred G. Gilman was born on July 1, 1941 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Portland, at 40.4°N, nothing below −49.6° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Twyla
Other writers
- Jane Gentry Vance1941
- Nicholas Dante1941
- Frances FitzGerald1940
- C. J. Cherryh1942
- Ellen Goodman1941
- Ron Powers1941
Born in United States
- Louis IgnarroAmerican physiologist
- Vaughn BodēAmerican underground comics and graphic design artist
- Michael Stuart BrownAmerican geneticist and Nobel laureate
- Paul SimonAmerican singer-songwriter
- Alfred G. GilmanAmerican pharmacologist
- Bernard L. SteinAmerican journalist
More charts like Twyla’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Waldemar AntonGerman-Uzbek footballer (born 1996)
- Rodrigo BentancurUruguayan association football player
- Ayoub El KaabiMoroccan footballer (born 1993)
Born in Snake years
- Karl Adolph GjellerupDanish writer
- Hans FischerGerman chemist
- Paul LauterburAmerican chemist
Also born on July 1
- Diana, Princess of Wales1961
- Pamela Anderson1967
- Liv Tyler1977
- Carl Lewis1961
- Daniel Ricciardo1989
- Tate McRae2003
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Ola Elizabeth WinslowAmerican colonial historian, professor of English
- Herb CaenAmerican newspaper columnist
- Fred Albert ShannonAmerican historian
Other Cancer Snake charts
- Françoise Bettencourt MeyersFrench businesswoman, billionaire
- Whitney Wolfe HerdAmerican businesswoman
- Hilary KnightAmerican ice hockey player
- Alex WinterBritish actor
Other Gilded Pioneers
- Georges J. F. KöhlerGerman immunologist
- Sheldon GlashowAmerican theoretical physicist
- François EnglertBelgian theoretical physicist
- Gerard 't HooftDutch theoretical physicist
Famous people with Life Path 5
- AshantiAmerican singer and songwriter
- Johnny KnoxvilleAmerican stunt performer and actor
- Masayoshi SonJapanese businessman
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Twyla’s cards
Computed from July 1, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Twyla’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q454336 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. 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, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Twyla Tharp's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Twyla Tharp's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
