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Zendaya

Zendaya (born September 1, 1996, Oakland, United States, 18:01), aged 30, is an American actress and singer. Notable films include Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home and Dune. Zendaya's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and Time 100.

Zendaya’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Zendaya’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Storyteller

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

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

#1189

US rank in 2025

~3,873

Americans share it since 2011

2022

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Zendaya falls under that line for 1996. Its peak came in 2022, and 3,873 Americans have carried it since 2011.

US Social Security Administration public records

Zendaya’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, 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 Zendaya apart

Zendaya took the Kids' Choice Award for Favorite TV Actress in 2016, at 20.

American Conservatory Theater and Oakland School for the Arts shaped the training.

The working life starts in 2009, at 13.

The family line: married Tom Holland.

Wikipedia's editors put Zendaya under Actresses from Oakland, California, Child actresses from California and American musicians of Nigerian descent.

The same date carries Brett Toth. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
American Conservatory Theater, Oakland School for the Arts and Oak Park High School
Instruments
piano and voice
Awards
Time 100 (2022), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (2022) and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress (2019)
Working from
2009
Citizenship
United States
Languages
American English
Wikipedia editions
102

What the chart says

Zendaya, according to the stars

Core essence

Zendaya notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Zendaya is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Zendaya is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Zendaya needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Zendaya wants to be loved

Zendaya 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. Zendaya gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Zendaya creates

How Zendaya makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Zendaya creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Zendaya 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Zendaya is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Zendaya does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Zendaya's birth date. Working below.

Where Zendaya sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Zendaya

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Zendaya

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Zendaya

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Zendaya

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

PracticalVisionary
Zendaya

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Zendaya

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

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Zendaya’s birth-sky starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 78.9° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alphecca →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 24.7° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

Read from the sky above Oakland at 18:01, Zendaya’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Oakland that night

Computed for 37.80°N, at the documented birth time.

Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Oakland at the birth hour, 78.9° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 80 catalog stars were up in all.

From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 77% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -18° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Oakland, United States
Lives in
Los Angeles · Brooklyn

Wikidata records Los Angeles and Brooklyn as Zendaya's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Zendaya'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 亥

Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Outer world

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Projector, profile 5/1

Emotional authority · Triple Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · T-square onto Jupiter · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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Zendaya at a glance

Virgo Sun

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

Zendaya's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.

What Virgo means →

Fire Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Zendaya was born on September 1, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Zendaya's birth date, September 1, 1996, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Zendaya’s chart

Zendaya’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.2° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.7° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.7° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.7° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 2° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 2° orbSun in Virgo · 9°51′ · house 8☉9°Moon in Taurus · 7°09′ · house 4☽7°Mercury in Libra · 3°15′ · house 9☿3°Venus in Cancer · 24°34′ · house 6♀24°Mars in Cancer · 25°05′ · house 6♂25°Jupiter in Capricorn · 7°49′ · house 12 · retrograde♃℞7°Saturn in Aries · 5°48′ · house 3 · retrograde♄℞5°Uranus in Aquarius · 1°12′ · house 1 · retrograde♅℞1°Neptune in Capricorn · 25°18′ · house 12 · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Sagittarius · 0°29′ · house 11♇0°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCAqr 7°00′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCLeo 7°00′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCSco 26°46′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICTau 26°46′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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AscendantAquarius
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Aspects, tightest first

  • MarsoppositionNeptuneapplying · 0.2° orb

    Zendaya’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • VenusconjunctionMarsapplying · 0.5° orb

    Zendaya’s affections and drive act as one.

  • MoontrineJupiterapplying · 0.7° orb

    Zendaya’s feelings flow straight into their growth.

  • VenusoppositionNeptuneapplying · 0.7° orb

  • UranussextilePlutoapplying · 0.7° orb

  • SuntrineJupiterseparating · 2.0° orb

  • MercurytrineUranusseparating · 2.0° orb

  • JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 2.0° orb

  • MercuryoppositionSaturnapplying · 2.5° orb

  • SuntrineMoonapplying · 2.7° orb

  • MercurysextilePlutoseparating · 2.8° orb

  • MercurysquareJupiterapplying · 4.6° orb

  • SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 4.6° orb

  • SaturntrinePlutoapplying · 5.3° orb

  • MarstrinePlutoapplying · 5.4° orb

  • MoonsquareUranusseparating · 5.9° orb

  • VenustrinePlutoapplying · 5.9° orb

  • UranusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 5.9° orb

  • MarsoppositionUranusapplying · 6.1° orb

  • VenusoppositionUranusapplying · 6.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 14°31′ · House 9

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 7°27′ · House 11

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

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 2°45′ · House 10

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 24°06′ · House 3

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°50′ · House 7

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Ascendant 0.5°
  • Hygiea square Venus 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Moon 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Ascendant 0.8°
  • Hygiea square Mars 1.0°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 1.2°
  • Eros square Uranus 1.5°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.0°
  • Ceres square Sun 2.4°

Zendaya’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus14 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; angular in the first house; 7 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Moon, Mercury; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Zendaya’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Moon, JupiterThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Mars 0.2°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
  • Moon semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 1.5°

Zendaya’s houses

Zendaya’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1AquariusUranus in Aquarius, house 1Uranusself, body, how you arrive
2PiscesNeptune in Capricorn, house 12emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3AriesMars in Cancer, house 6Saturnmind, siblings, the local world
4TaurusVenus in Cancer, house 6Moonhome, family, roots
5GeminiMercury in Libra, house 9emptycreativity, romance, play
6CancerMoon in Taurus, house 4Venus, Marswork, habits, health
7LeoSun in Virgo, house 8emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8VirgoMercury in Libra, house 9Sunshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9LibraVenus in Cancer, house 6Mercurybelief, travel, higher learning
10ScorpioPluto in Sagittarius, house 11emptycareer, reputation, public life
11SagittariusJupiter in Capricorn, house 12Plutofriends, community, the future
12CapricornSaturn in Aries, house 3Jupiter, Neptunethe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Zendaya’s family here

One relative of Zendaya also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as Zendaya

Brett Toth was born on September 1, 1996 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Oakland sits at 37.8°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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Zendaya’s cards

Computed from September 1, 1996. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Zendaya’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q189489 (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 PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Zendaya at Wikipedia, zendaya.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Zendaya.

Quick answers about Zendaya’s chart

How old is Zendaya?
Zendaya is 30 years old, born September 1, 1996 in Oakland, United States.
What zodiac sign is Zendaya?
Zendaya is a Virgo: born September 1, 1996, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What is Zendaya's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 1, 1996 birth.
What time was Zendaya born?
18:01 local time in Oakland, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Zendaya's rising sign?
Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 18:01 birth time in Oakland, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Zendaya?
Zendaya is 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Zendaya's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Zendaya's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 14°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Zendaya's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 7°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Zendaya's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; angular in the first house; 7 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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