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Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon (born February 8, 1925, Newton, United States; died 2001), was an American actor. Lemmon's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Jack Lemmon’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Jack Lemmon’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Jack in the U.S.?

#15

US rank in 2025

~759,677

Americans share it since 1880

1927

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1925, Jack came 17th among boys and 763rd among girls, carried by 12,011 American boys and 95 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jack’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

3

Soul Urge · being heard

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on J (1) and closes on K (2).

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

Jack’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Ivory · Forest

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 1925, 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 Jack apart

Jack Lemmon took the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1956, at 31.

The classrooms behind this chart: Phillips Academy and Rivers School.

The working life starts in 1949, at 24.

Cause of death is recorded as bladder cancer; the grave is at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

Jack Lemmon was born to Mildred Burgess Noel and John Uhler Lemmon Jr., married Felicia Farr and Cynthia Stone and raised one child.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jack Lemmon: Best Performance by a Foreign Actor Genie Award winners, Columbia Pictures contract players and Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

Dmitri Mendeleev (1834) and James Dean (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Phillips Academy, Rivers School and HB Studio
Awards
Academy Award for Best Actor (1974), Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1956) and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (1960)
Nominated for
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1949
Cause of death
bladder cancer
Buried at
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
80

What the chart says

Jack, according to the stars

Core essence

Jack is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Jack 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Jack needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Jack needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Jack wants to be loved

Jack wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Jack be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Jack creates

How Jack makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Jack creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Jack 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Jack is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Jack is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Jack's birth date. Working below.

Where Jack sits

Six lines

Jack’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Jack

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jack

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Jack

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jack

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

PracticalVisionary
Jack

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jack

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jack Lemmon

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newton 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 Newton that night

Computed for 42.34°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Newton was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 83.0° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.

From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

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, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Newton, United States

The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2001.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jack Lemmon: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Jack's chart is

Chart pattern score

51 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Saturn · 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.

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Jack Lemmon at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Ideas first, people second.

Jack Lemmon's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 8, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Wood Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Jack Lemmon was born on February 8, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Jack Lemmon's birth date, February 8, 1925, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Jack’s chart

Jack’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Mars · Square, 0° orbJupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.1° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 1.1° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.2° orbSun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.8° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 2.2° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.4° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun in Aquarius · 19°27′☉19°Moon in Leo · 17°12′☽17°Mercury in Aquarius · 2°04′☿2°Venus in Aquarius · 0°55′♀0°Mars in Taurus · 2°06′♂2°Jupiter in Capricorn · 11°40′♃11°Saturn in Scorpio · 14°09′♄14°Uranus in Pisces · 19°42′♅19°Neptune in Leo · 21°16′ · retrograde♆℞21°Pluto in Cancer · 11°47′ · retrograde♇℞11°

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

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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

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Jack’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupiteroppositionPluto0.0° to 0.2° orb

    Jack’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.

  • stableSunoppositionMoon0.1° to 7.8° orb

    Jack’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.

  • stableVenussquareMars0.9° to 1.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.0° to 1.3° orb

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn2.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn4.8° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.5° to 5.6° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Jack’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 20°48′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 4°36′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 27°32′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 11°29′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 5°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.5°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 1.4°
  • Ceres square Mercury 2.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 2.5°
  • Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.7°

Jack’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Jack’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.3°
  • Sun quintile Mars 0.7°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.6°

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Jack’s cards

Computed from February 8, 1925. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

9 · Healer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q94123 (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 Wire photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jack Lemmon 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 Jack Lemmon.

Quick answers about Jack Lemmon’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jack Lemmon?
Jack Lemmon was an Aquarius: born February 8, 1925, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Jack Lemmon's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 8, 1925 birth.
How tall was Jack Lemmon?
Jack Lemmon was 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Jack Lemmon's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Jack Lemmon's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Jack Lemmon's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jack Lemmon's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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