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Tyra Banks.

4 December 1973 · 19:13 · Inglewood, California

Tyra Banks's birth chart: Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Aries, Cancer rising. Born December 4, 1973 in Inglewood, California.

About this chart

What is Tyra Banks's sun sign?

Tyra Banks's sun is in Sagittarius.

What is Tyra Banks's moon sign?

Tyra Banks's moon is in Aries.

What is Tyra Banks's rising sign?

Tyra Banks's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Tyra Banks born?

Tyra Banks was born December 4, 1973 in Inglewood, California.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of fire and water means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunSagittarius · 5th house

The self is built toward meaning and the horizon. Optimistic, philosophical, hungry for what lies beyond the known, the arrow always pointing forward. Lesson: the truth you seek is in the specific life you are running from. You come alive in what you make. Creativity, play, romance and children are where the self is authored. The house of joy is, for you, the house of identity.

MoonAries · 10th house

Feeling arrives hot and fast. Reactions are immediate and blunt, sometimes regretted. The inner self needs autonomy, and comfort comes from action rather than from being held. Soothing means being given permission to move. Feeling is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.

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RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Aries in the 10th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeSagittarius · 6th house

The pull is toward Sagittarius: meaning, the wider view, faith, direct first-hand experience. The familiar groove is Gemini: scattered facts, second-hand opinion. Growth is letting the pieces resolve into something you actually believe.

South NodeGemini · 12th house

The South Node in Gemini (12th house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Leo, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Cancer rising puts the Moon in charge of the whole chart. Your ruler is also one of the lights: the vehicle you travel in is the same force at your core.

The Moon · chart rulerAries · 10th house

Feeling is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission. Planets in the 10th (Moon, Mars) amplify that signal.

IC
ICLibra · the 4th house

With Libra on the IC, home is where beauty keeps the peace: partnership tone, balance in the private rooms.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in fire and cardinal signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusLibra · 4th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Libra

A generation that disrupts partnership, rewriting marriage, fairness and the relational contract.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 5th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLibra · 4th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship through death and rebirth.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundAries · 10th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCapricorn · 6th house

Lilith is the part of you that built authority because the existing one did not make room. It is competence that will not downplay itself to soothe a threatened room. The medicine is owning what you are in fact good at. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on fire. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to seek truth, expand the map, and say the honest thing.
  4. You need honest heat and room to move when feelings rise.
  5. People meet your care first: protective, attuned, quietly assessing the room.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is a fire, cardinal chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

Missing: Little or no air can mean objectivity and detachment are hard, that you feel your way through where others think theirs, and stepping back to see clearly takes deliberate effort. You may seek out airy people for the perspective they bring.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

What leads the chart

Your Moon is the loudest force in your chart, which means feeling, instinct, and the inner life run the show. You are lunar, led by emotion and the need for safety more than by logic or will, deeply attuned and deeply sensitive.

The spine, your Big Three

Sagittarius Sun · Aries Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of fire and water means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
49%
Earth
10%
Air
8%
Water
33%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

T-Square · apex Saturncommon
an opposition under pressure from Saturn (Moon, Pluto, Saturn)

In your chart, Moon, Pluto, Saturn form a T-square with Saturn at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Capricorn, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Saturn: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Saturn can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Capricorn, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Venuscommon
an opposition under pressure from Venus (Mars, Uranus, Venus)

In your chart, Mars, Uranus, Venus form a T-square with Venus at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Cancer, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Venus: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Venus can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Cancer, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Moon trine Neptuneorb 0.05°

In you, the Moon flows together with Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Mars opposition Uranusorb 0.44°

In you, Mars sits opposite Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Moon opposition Plutoorb 0.84°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your relationship to power and deep change. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.89°

In you, Neptune works easily with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Venus square Uranusorb 1.58°

In you, Venus grinds against Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Mars rules Ariesat home

Mars sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Moon trine Neptuneorb 0.1°

A natural, flowing ease: Moon and Neptune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.9°

An easy, available link: Neptune and Pluto feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Mercury trine Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

A natural, flowing ease: Mercury and Part of Fortune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 1.6°

An easy, available link: Jupiter and Neptune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Moon sextile Jupiterorb 1.7°

An easy, available link: Moon and Jupiter feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Mars opposition Uranusorb 0.4°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Mars and Uranus never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Moon opposition Plutoorb 0.8°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Moon and Pluto never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Saturn in detriment in Canceruphill

Saturn runs uphill in Cancer, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Venus square Uranusorb 1.6°

A productive friction: the pull between Venus and Uranus never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Tyra Banks
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun12°50' Sagittarius5th house·
Moon7°19' Aries10th housechart ruler
Mercury24°39' Scorpio5th house·
Venus27°51' Capricorn7th house·
Mars25°50' Aries10th houserulership
Jupiter9°00' Aquarius7th house·
Saturn2°42' Cancer12th houseretrograde, detriment
Uranus26°17' Libra4th house·
Neptune7°22' Sagittarius5th house·
Pluto6°28' Libra4th house·
Chiron16°37' Aries10th houseretrograde
North Node28°41' Sagittarius6th houseretrograde
South Node28°41' Gemini12th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith12°22' Capricorn6th house·
Part of Fortune23°39' Pisces9th house·
Vertex1°56' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moontrineneptune0.05°separating
marsoppositionuranus0.44°applying
moonoppositionpluto0.84°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.89°separating
mercurytrinepart-of-fortune1.00°separating
venussquareuranus1.58°separating
jupitersextileneptune1.64°separating
moonsextilejupiter1.69°applying
venussquaremars2.02°separating
uranussextilenorth-node2.41°applying
jupitertrinepluto2.54°separating
marstrinenorth-node2.85°applying
mercurysextilevenus3.21°applying
saturnsquarepluto3.77°separating
suntrinechiron3.77°applying
sunsextilejupiter3.83°separating
saturnoppositionnorth-node4.02°applying
chironsquarelilith4.25°applying
moonsquaresaturn4.61°separating
north-nodesquarepart-of-fortune5.04°applying
moonsquarelilith5.05°applying
moontrinevertex5.37°separating
neptuneconjunctionvertex5.42°separating
sunconjunctionneptune5.47°separating
suntrinemoon5.52°applying
plutosquarelilith5.89°separating
sunsemisquarevenus0.02°applying
marsbiquintilevertex0.10°applying
jupiterbiquintilesaturn0.30°separating
chironsesquiquadratevertex0.33°separating
jupitersemisquarepart-of-fortune0.36°separating
sunsemisextilelilith0.48°separating
lilithquintilepart-of-fortune0.71°separating
saturnquincunxvertex0.76°applying
venussemisextilenorth-node0.83°applying
mercuryquincunxmars1.19°applying
sunsemisquareuranus1.56°separating
mercurysemisextileuranus1.63°applying
sunsesquiquadratemars2.00°separating