Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons (born August 25, 1949, Tirat Carmel, Israel, 10:15), aged 77, is an Israeli-American musician and songwriter (born 1949). Simmons's honours include Great Immigrants Award.
Gene Simmons’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Ox, with 
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Gene Simmons’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Gene in the U.S.?
#2238
US rank in 2025
~133,874
Americans share it since 1880
1937
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Gene’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Gene apart
Salif Keita and John Savage shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.
What the chart says
Gene, according to the stars
Core essence
Gene 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 Gene is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Gene is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Gene needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Gene wants to be loved
Gene wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Gene gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Gene creates
How Gene makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Gene creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Gene is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Gene 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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Gene 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 Gene's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gene sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Gene Simmons's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
Gene Simmons was born on August 25, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Gene Simmons's birth date, August 25, 1949, 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 Gene’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Gene Simmons' timed chart: Venus in the 1st house, Mars in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 4th house, Uranus in the 10th house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Gene Simmons' timed chart is Mars opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets, Sun, Moon, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Gene Simmons combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Gene’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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MarsoppositionJupiterapplying · 1.5° orb
Gene’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
VenussquareUranusseparating · 1.6° orb
Gene’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
MercurytrineJupiterseparating · 2.2° orb
Gene’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SunsextileUranusapplying · 2.3° orb
Gene’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 3.3° orb
Gene’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercurysextileMarsseparating · 3.7° orb
Gene’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoonsextileMarsapplying · 4.3° orb
Gene’s feelings open doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SaturnsextileUranusseparating · 4.5° orb
Gene’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
MoontrineJupiterapplying · 5.8° orb
Gene’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
SunconjunctionSaturnapplying · 6.8° orb
Gene’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 7.7° orb
Gene’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoonconjunctionMercuryapplying · 7.9° orb
Gene’s feelings and mind act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Gene’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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 3°14′ · House 3
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Gene building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 28°25′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Gene caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 29°56′ · House 4
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Gene is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLibra 4°25′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Gene is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 14°30′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Gene carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Hygiea square Uranus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.3°
- Chiron square Sun 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.2°
- Chiron sextile Venus 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 3.0°
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°).
Gene’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury14 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; rules the Moon sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Moon, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Ascendant, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Neptune; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Gene is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Gene’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Moon, 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 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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.3°
- Moon semi-sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Moon quintile Uranus 1.4°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 1.8°
Gene’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Libra | Venus in Libra, house 1 | Venus, Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 11 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 4 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Capricorn | Saturn in Virgo, house 12 | Jupiter | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aquarius | Uranus in Cancer, house 10 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 1 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aries | Mars in Cancer, house 10 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Taurus | Venus in Libra, house 1 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Gemini | Mercury in Virgo, house 12 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 12 | Mars, Uranus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Leo | Sun in Virgo, house 12 | Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Virgo | Mercury in Virgo, house 12 | Sun, Moon, Mercury, Saturn | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Gene
2 other people here were born on August 25, 1949, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Gene’s cards
Every card is computed from August 25, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Gene’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q207197, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Agente47, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gene Simmons at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, 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.
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Quick answers about Gene Simmons’s chart
- How old is Gene Simmons?
- Gene Simmons is 77 years old, born August 25, 1949 in Tirat Carmel, Israel.
- What zodiac sign is Gene Simmons?
- Gene Simmons is a Virgo: born August 25, 1949, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Ox.
- What is Gene Simmons's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 25, 1949 birth.
- What time was Gene Simmons born?
- 10:15 local time in Tirat Carmel, Israel, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Gene Simmons's rising sign?
- Libra rising, calculated from the documented 10:15 birth time in Tirat Carmel, Israel (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Gene Simmons's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the August 25, 1949 birth date.
- What is Gene Simmons's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 3°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 25, 1949 birth time.
- Where is Gene Simmons's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 14°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gene Simmons's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; rules the Moon sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Moon, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
