DMX
DMX (born Earl Simmons; December 18, 1970, Mount Vernon, United States; died 2021), was an American rapper and actor. Best-known releases include Year of the Dog... Again, Grand Champ and ... And Then There Was X.
DMX’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.How compatible are you with DMX?
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- · What you would bring to the match
- · Where you might clash
- · Whether you share lucky numbers, colours, stones or seasons
DMX’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
DMX’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
DMX, according to the stars
Core essence
DMX is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of DMX is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How DMX wants to be loved
DMX wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with DMX even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How DMX creates
How DMX makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. DMX creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: DMX 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 2 is the peacemaker. DMX is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means DMX runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from DMX's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where DMX sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mount Vernon on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
DMX's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 18, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
DMX was born on December 18, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
DMX's birth date, December 18, 1970, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in DMX’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in DMX's date-only chart is Mercury square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- DMX combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
DMX’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for DMX, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Leo or Virgo 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.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.8° to 1.5° orb
DMX’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.9° to 1.0° orb
DMX’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.1° to 1.5° orb
DMX’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb
DMX’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.4° to 2.5° orb
DMX’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunsquarePluto2.8° to 3.8° orb
DMX’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextilePluto4.6° to 4.8° orb
DMX’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.5° to 6.7° orb
DMX’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionMars7.7° orb
DMX’s affections and drive act as one.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 1.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
DMX’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.
⚷ ChironAries 5°52′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: DMX may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAries 23°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: DMX looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 16°40′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. DMX is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 17°12′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has DMX at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has DMX exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Eros square Saturn 0.2°
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.7°
- Eros square Venus 1.3°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.2°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.7°
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°).
DMX’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. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: DMX is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 DMX’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Sun quintile Uranus 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for DMX, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Dog years
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DMX’s cards
Every card is computed from December 18, 1970, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for DMX, 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
DMX’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223769, 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 Mika-photography, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same DMX at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube 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 DMX.
Quick answers about DMX’s chart
- What zodiac sign was DMX?
- DMX was a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1970, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog.
- What was DMX's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1970 birth.
- What time was DMX 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 was DMX's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the December 18, 1970 birth date.
- What was DMX's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 18, 1970 birth date.
- Where was DMX's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was DMX's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
