J. K. Simmons
J. K. Simmons (born January 9, 1955, Detroit, United States), aged 71, is an American actor (born 1955). Simmons is best known for Whiplash and Spider-Man. Simmons's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
J. K. Simmons’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Horse, with 
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J. K. Simmons’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
J. K. Simmons’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
J. K. Simmons, according to the stars
Core essence
J. K. Simmons is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of J. K. Simmons is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How J. K. Simmons wants to be loved
J. K. Simmons wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with J. K. Simmons and watch them fall for you again.
How J. K. Simmons creates
How J. K. Simmons makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. J. K. Simmons creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: J. K. Simmons is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. J. K. Simmons is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; J. K. Simmons 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. K. Simmons's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where J. K. Simmons sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
J. K. Simmons's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 9, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Wood Horse
Wood HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
J. K. Simmons was born on January 9, 1955, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
J. K. Simmons's birth date, January 9, 1955, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in J. K. Simmons’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in J. K. Simmons' date-only chart is Mars trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- J. K. Simmons combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
J. K. Simmons’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for J. K. Simmons, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
J. K. Simmons’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
J. K. Simmons’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
J. K. Simmons’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
J. K. Simmons’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.2° to 0.3° orb
J. K. Simmons’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.1° to 2.8° orb
J. K. Simmons’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter1.3° to 3.1° orb
J. K. Simmons’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysextileMars1.4° to 2.3° orb
J. K. Simmons’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb
J. K. Simmons’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquareNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb
J. K. Simmons’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb
J. K. Simmons’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquarePluto6.1° to 7.0° orb
J. K. Simmons’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
J. K. Simmons’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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 28°27′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. J. K. Simmons is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°24′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. J. K. Simmons is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosAquarius 15°23′ (moves 0.60° 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. J. K. Simmons is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaLibra 16°20′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. J. K. Simmons is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 23°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. J. K. Simmons is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Chiron square Neptune 0.3°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 0.5°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.3°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.4°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.5°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.8°
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°).
J. K. Simmons’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. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
disposes Venus; 6 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
6 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: J. K. Simmons is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 J. K. Simmons’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.
T-square onto Neptune · Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Neptune · Mercury, Jupiter, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Pluto · Mercury, Mars, PlutoTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Mars · Neptune, Pluto, MarsTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.3°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.5°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for J. K. Simmons, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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J. K. Simmons’s cards
Every card is computed from January 9, 1955, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for J. K. Simmons, 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
J. K. Simmons’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q150482, 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 Jay Dixit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same J. K. Simmons at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 J. K. Simmons.
Quick answers about J. K. Simmons’s chart
- How old is J. K. Simmons?
- J. K. Simmons is 71 years old, born January 9, 1955 in Detroit, United States.
- What zodiac sign is J. K. Simmons?
- J. K. Simmons is a Capricorn: born January 9, 1955, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse.
- What is J. K. Simmons's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 9, 1955 birth.
- What time was J. K. Simmons 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 is J. K. Simmons's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 9, 1955 birth date.
- What is J. K. Simmons's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 9, 1955 birth date.
- Where is J. K. Simmons's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is J. K. Simmons's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
