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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with DMX
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.
What DMX’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Earl Simmons, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on E (5) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
DMX’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1970, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets DMX apart
Steven Spielberg (1946) and Brad Pitt (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
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. Working below.
Where DMX sits
Six lines
DMX’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 DMX
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon that night
Computed for 40.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Mount Vernon at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 2.4° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
Mount Vernon sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Mount Vernon at all: they sit past the −49.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon down and 67% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Earl Simmons
- Known as
- DMX
- Born in
- Mount Vernon, United States
The death is recorded at White Plains, Westchester County in 2021.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for DMX: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual DMX's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
DMX was born on December 18, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 8° Leo or Virgo 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
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
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableSunsquarePluto2.8° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto4.6° to 4.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.5° to 6.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars7.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 5°52′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 23°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 16°40′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 17°12′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
DMX’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in DMX’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Sun quintile Uranus 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
More people like DMX
Other actors
- Padma Lakshmi1970
- Ana Ortiz1971
- Taraji P. Henson1970
- Jonathan Davis1971
- Kelly Ripa1970
- Regina King1971
Born in United States
- Bethenny FrankelAmerican television personality
- Jonathan DavisAmerican singer
- Andrew Sean GreerAmerican novelist and short story writer
- Kid RockAmerican musician (born 1971)
- Ethan HawkeAmerican actor and writer
- Meri BrownAmerican reality television participant
More charts like DMX’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Nick SwisherAmerican baseball player
- KaDee StricklandAmerican actress
- Sarah SnookAustralian actress (born 1987)
Born in Dog years
- Woo Kwong Ching PeterHong Kong politician and businessman; Former chairman; Founding patron, Wheelock; Project WeCan
- Lee Boo-jinSouth Korean businesswoman
- Boris NuraliyevRussian entrepreneur, scientist
Also born on December 18
- Steven Spielberg1946
- Brad Pitt1963
- Christina Aguilera1980
- Sia1975
- Katie Holmes1978
- Ashley Benson1989
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Amber RoseAmerican model and television personality
- Rafael GrossiArgentine diplomat
- Ross ButlerSingaporean-born American actor
Other Sagittarius Dog charts
- Gemma ChanBritish actress
- Judi DenchEnglish actress (born 1934)
- Kara DioGuardiAmerican music producer, composer and pop singer
- Keri HilsonAmerican R&B singer
Other Tidal Healers
- Richard ErnstSwiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate
- Wendell Meredith StanleyAmerican biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
- Martinus J. G. VeltmanDutch theoretical physicist
- Ralph Bunchediplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Youri TielemansBelgian footballer (born 1997)
- BremerBrazilian association football player
- Matt FreeseAmerican soccer player
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
DMX’s cards
Computed from December 18, 1970. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The High PriestessAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
2 · Diplomat♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
DMX’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q223769 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was DMX's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was DMX's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
