J. Cole
J. Cole (born Jermaine Lamarr Cole; January 28, 1985, Frankfurt, Germany), aged 41, is an American rapper and record producer. Best-known releases include 2014 Forest Hills Drive, 4 Your Eyez Only and Cole World: The Sideline Story.
J. Cole’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with J. Cole
J. Cole’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
What J. Cole’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Jermaine Lamarr Cole, not the name they published under.
2
Expression · connecting people
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
J. Cole’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
The record
What sets J. Cole apart
Training came by way of Terry Sanford High School and St. John's University.
The working life starts in 2007, at 22.
Elijah Wood (1981) and Carlos Slim (1940) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Terry Sanford High School and St. John's University
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best New Artist
- Working from
- 2007
- Wikipedia editions
- 51
What the chart says
J. Cole, according to the stars
Core essence
J. Cole is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of J. Cole is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How J. Cole wants to be loved
J. Cole wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with J. Cole, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How J. Cole creates
How J. Cole 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. J. Cole 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: J. Cole 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. J. Cole is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; J. Cole slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from J. Cole's birth date. Working below.
Where J. Cole sits
Six lines
J. Cole’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 J. Cole
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Frankfurt 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 Frankfurt that night
Computed for 50.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Frankfurt at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 4.4° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 50.1°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −39.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 47% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 36° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Jermaine Lamarr Cole
- Known as
- J. Cole
- Born in
- Frankfurt, Germany
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for J. Cole: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual J.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Jupiter · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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 →J. Cole at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
J. Cole's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 28, 1985, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
J. Cole was born on January 28, 1985, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
J. Cole's birth date, January 28, 1985, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in J. Cole’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in J. Cole's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- J. Cole combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
J. Cole’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 6° Aries or Taurus 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
stableMarstrineSaturn0.5° to 1.2° orb
J. Cole’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.6° to 0.8° orb
J. Cole’s affections and drive act as one.
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.9° to 1.0° orb
J. Cole’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.1° to 1.7° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn1.1° to 2.0° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter1.6° to 2.1° orb
stableMercurysextileMars1.7° to 2.5° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter2.1° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.2° to 3.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb
stableSunsquarePluto3.2° to 4.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.3° to 4.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
J. Cole’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 3°21′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 13°52′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 3°34′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 5°14′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 16°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.7°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.8°
J. Cole’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in J. Cole’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.
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.9°
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on January 28
- Elijah Wood1981
- Carlos Slim1940
- Will Poulter1993
- Maluma1994
- Ariel Winter1998
- Rick Ross1976
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Count BasieAmerican jazz musician and composer
- Marilyn HorneAmerican mezzo-soprano opera singer (born 1934)
- Suzanne FarrellAmerican ballerina
Other Aquarius Rat charts
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- Cristiano RonaldoPortuguese association football player
- Carlos TevezArgentine association football player
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
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Famous people with Life Path 7
- Hardik PandyaIndian cricketer
- Joe RootEngland cricketer
- Ryan GarciaAmerican boxer
From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
J. Cole’s cards
Computed from January 28, 1985. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
J. Cole’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q204018 (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 HOTSPOTATL, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same J. Cole at Wikipedia, 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 J. Cole.
Quick answers about J. Cole’s chart
- How old is J. Cole?
- J. Cole is 41 years old, born January 28, 1985 in Frankfurt, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is J. Cole?
- J. Cole is an Aquarius: born January 28, 1985, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is J. Cole's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 28, 1985 birth.
- What is J. Cole's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is J. Cole's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is J. Cole's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is J. Cole's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
