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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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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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.

What J. K. Simmons’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

6

Soul Urge · being needed

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on J (1) and closes on J (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

J. K. Simmons’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets J. K. Simmons apart

Catherine, Princess of Wales (1982) and Jimmy Page (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where J. K. Simmons sits

Six lines

J. K. Simmons’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
J. K. Simmons

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
J. K. Simmons

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
J. K. Simmons

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
J. K. Simmons

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
J. K. Simmons

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
J. K. Simmons

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to J. K. Simmons

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

J. K. Simmons’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 82.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 73.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Detroit that night

Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Detroit was Menkib, in Perseus, 82.9° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.

Detroit sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 40° down.

How unusual J.'s chart is

Chart pattern score

76 / 100 · Rare

Yod onto Pluto · Yod onto Mars · Grand trine

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.

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Capricorn Sun

Working 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.

What Capricorn means →

Wood Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

J. K. Simmons was born on January 9, 1955, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 3

Talks 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.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in J. K. Simmons’s chart

J. K. Simmons’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.1° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.2° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.2° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.3° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.4° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 1.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.7° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.9° orbSun in Capricorn · 18°40′☉18°Moon in Leo · 4°19′☽4°Mercury in Capricorn · 27°55′☿27°Venus in Sagittarius · 2°55′♀2°Mars in Pisces · 26°04′♂26°Jupiter in Cancer · 25°44′ · retrograde♃℞25°Saturn in Scorpio · 19°04′♄19°Uranus in Cancer · 25°58′ · retrograde♅℞25°Neptune in Libra · 28°07′♆28°Pluto in Leo · 26°24′ · retrograde♇℞26°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.2° to 0.3° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.1° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter1.3° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMercurysextileMars1.4° to 2.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune2.1° to 2.2° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune2.3° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto6.1° to 7.0° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 28°27′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°24′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 15°23′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 16°20′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 23°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

J. K. Simmons’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    disposes Venus; 6 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    6 major aspects

Configurations in J. K. Simmons’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-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, the shape it makesT-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, the shape it makesYod 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, the shape it makesYod 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • 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°

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J. K. Simmons’s cards

Computed from January 9, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Diplomat

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

J. K. Simmons’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q150482 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is J. K. Simmons's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is J. K. Simmons's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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