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Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman (born April 29, 1970, Boston, United States, 13:51), aged 56, is an American actress and model. Notable films include Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Kill Bill: Volume 2. Thurman's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, Saturn Awards and MTV Movie Award for Best Fight.

Uma Thurman’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Uma Thurman’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Uma in the U.S.?

#3025

US rank in 2025

~1,901

Americans share it since 1961

2006

its peak year

The SSA recorded 6 American girls named Uma in 1970: 7,952nd for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Uma’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

8

Soul Urge · achievement

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on U (3) and closes on A (1).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Uma’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

White · Blush · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1970, 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 Uma apart

The MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence came in 1995, when Uma Thurman was 25.

Uma Thurman was taught at Professional Children's School and Northfield Mount Hermon School.

Uma Thurman was 15 when the work began in 1985.

The family line: born to Nena von Schlebrügge and Robert Thurman, married Gary Oldman and Ethan Hawke and raised 2 children.

Wikipedia files Uma Thurman under People from Almora district, Female models from Massachusetts and David di Donatello Career Award winners.

Anggun (1974) and Michelle Pfeiffer (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Professional Children's School, Northfield Mount Hermon School and American Embassy School
Awards
MTV Movie Award for Best Fight (2004), Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Miniseries or Television Film (2003) and MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence (1995)
Nominated for
MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Working from
1985
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
103

What the chart says

Uma, according to the stars

Core essence

Uma is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Uma is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Uma needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Uma needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Uma wants to be loved

Uma wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Uma like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Uma creates

How Uma makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Uma creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Uma is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Uma 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Uma scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Uma's birth date. Working below.

Where Uma sits

Six lines

Uma’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Uma

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Uma

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Uma

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Uma

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Uma

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Uma

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Uma Thurman

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Read from the sky above Boston at 13:51, Uma Thurman’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Boston that night

Computed for 42.36°N, at the documented birth time.

Algol stood nearest the zenith over Boston at the birth hour, 84.3° above the horizon in Perseus.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

Boston sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −47.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Boston on any night.

The Moon, 39% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat -58° below the horizon.

What Uma's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Warrior 武曲, The Commander 七殺 in 酉

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

58 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Taurus · Five planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet

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 →

Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

Uma Thurman's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.

What Taurus means →

Metal Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Uma Thurman was born on April 29, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Uma Thurman's birth date, April 29, 1970, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Uma’s chart

Uma’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Mercury · Square, 0.1° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.1° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.2° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.6° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.7° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.1° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 5.2° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 7.4° orbSun in Taurus · 8°59′ · house 9☉8°Moon in Aquarius · 22°28′ · house 6☽22°Mercury in Taurus · 22°25′ · house 9 · retrograde☿℞22°Venus in Gemini · 2°18′ · house 10♀2°Mars in Gemini · 7°30′ · house 10♂7°Jupiter in Scorpio · 0°04′ · house 3 · retrograde♃℞0°Saturn in Taurus · 11°43′ · house 9♄11°Uranus in Libra · 5°26′ · house 2 · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Sagittarius · 0°05′ · house 4 · retrograde♆℞0°Pluto in Virgo · 25°01′ · house 1 · retrograde♇℞25°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCVir 1°58′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCPsc 1°58′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCTau 26°17′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSco 26°17′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantVirgo
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 0.1° orb

    Uma’s feelings grind against their mind.

  • MarstrineUranusseparating · 2.1° orb

    Uma’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • VenusoppositionNeptuneseparating · 2.2° orb

    Uma’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • MercurytrinePlutoseparating · 2.6° orb

  • SunconjunctionSaturnapplying · 2.7° orb

  • VenustrineUranusapplying · 3.1° orb

  • VenusconjunctionMarsapplying · 5.2° orb

  • MarsoppositionNeptuneseparating · 7.4° orb

  • MercuryoppositionNeptuneseparating · 7.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Uma’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 8°11′ · House 8

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAries 6°46′ · House 8

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 21°48′ · House 5

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 17°53′ · House 10

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°53′ · House 12

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Mercury 0.6°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 0.7°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 0.7°
  • Ceres opposition Uranus 1.3°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.7°

Uma’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Uma’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.0°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
  • Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.7°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 2.0°
  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.2°

Uma’s houses

Uma’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1VirgoMercury in Taurus, house 9Plutoself, body, how you arrive
2LibraVenus in Gemini, house 10Uranusmoney, possessions, self-worth
3ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 1Jupitermind, siblings, the local world
4SagittariusJupiter in Scorpio, house 3Neptunehome, family, roots
5CapricornSaturn in Taurus, house 9emptycreativity, romance, play
6AquariusUranus in Libra, house 2Moonwork, habits, health
7PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 4emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AriesMars in Gemini, house 10emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9TaurusVenus in Gemini, house 10Sun, Mercury, Saturnbelief, travel, higher learning
10GeminiMercury in Taurus, house 9Venus, Marscareer, reputation, public life
11CancerMoon in Aquarius, house 6emptyfriends, community, the future
12LeoSun in Taurus, house 9emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Uma’s family here

3 relatives of Uma Thurman also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Uma’s cards

Computed from April 29, 1970. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Uma’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q125017 (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 Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, 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 Uma Thurman.

Quick answers about Uma Thurman’s chart

How old is Uma Thurman?
Uma Thurman is 56 years old, born April 29, 1970 in Boston, United States.
What zodiac sign is Uma Thurman?
Uma Thurman is a Taurus: born April 29, 1970, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What is Uma Thurman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 29, 1970 birth.
What time was Uma Thurman born?
13:51 local time in Boston, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Uma Thurman's rising sign?
Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 13:51 birth time in Boston, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Uma Thurman?
Uma Thurman is 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Uma Thurman's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Uma Thurman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 8°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Uma Thurman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 15°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Uma Thurman's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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