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Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson (born John Joseph Nicholson; April 22, 1937, Neptune City, United States, 11:00), aged 89, is an American actor and filmmaker. Notable films include The Departed, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Shining. Nicholson's honours include Grammy Awards, Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Jack Nicholson’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Jack Nicholson’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

The SSA recorded 8,194 American boys and 26 girls named Jack in 1937: 23rd among boys and 1,471st among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jack’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name John Joseph Nicholson, not the name they published under.

4

Expression · building what holds

2

Soul Urge · closeness

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5).

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

1 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

White · Blush · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1937, 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

Robert Oppenheimer (1904) and Louise Glück (1943) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Jack, according to the stars

Core essence

Jack is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Jack is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Jack 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 Jack needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Jack wants to be loved

Jack wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Jack creates

How Jack makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Jack creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Jack is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Jack leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Jack has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jack

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

PrivateExpressive
Jack

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jack

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

PracticalVisionary
Jack

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jack

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Jack Nicholson

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

Jack’s birth-sky starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 85.1° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 45.7° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Neptune City at 11:00, Jack Nicholson’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Neptune City that night

Computed for 40.20°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Neptune City was Mirach, in Andromeda, 85.1° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.

Neptune City sits at 40.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Neptune City at all: they sit past the −49.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 92% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -60° down.

The name and the places

Born as
John Joseph Nicholson
Known as
Jack Nicholson
Born in
Neptune City, United States

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What Jack's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Breaker 破軍 in 戌

Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Self

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Projector, profile 1/3

Splenic authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

67 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Taurus · T-square onto Sun · 2 planets 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.

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Jack Nicholson at a glance

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Jack Nicholson's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.

What Taurus means →

Fire Ox

Reliable to the bone.

Jack Nicholson was born on April 22, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Jack Nicholson's birth date, April 22, 1937, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Jack’s chart

Jack’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.7° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.7° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.8° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.6° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.2° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.2° orbSun in Taurus · 2°06′ · house 10☉2°Moon in Virgo · 29°03′ · house 2☽29°Mercury in Taurus · 21°38′ · house 10☿21°Venus in Aries · 24°45′ · house 9 · retrograde♀℞24°Mars in Sagittarius · 5°08′ · house 5 · retrograde♂℞5°Jupiter in Capricorn · 26°30′ · house 6♃26°Saturn in Pisces · 29°43′ · house 8♄29°Uranus in Taurus · 9°08′ · house 10♅9°Neptune in Virgo · 16°30′ · house 2 · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Cancer · 26°32′ · house 12♇26°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLeo 1°42′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAqr 1°42′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAri 17°38′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLib 17°38′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • JupiteroppositionPlutoapplying · 0.0° orb

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

  • MoonoppositionSaturnapplying · 0.7° orb

    Jack’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • VenussquareJupiterseparating · 1.7° orb

    Jack’s affections grind against their growth.

  • VenussquarePlutoseparating · 1.8° orb

  • MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 2.5° orb

  • MoontrineJupiterseparating · 2.6° orb

  • JupitersextileSaturnseparating · 3.2° orb

  • SaturntrinePlutoseparating · 3.2° orb

  • MercurytrineJupiterapplying · 4.9° orb

  • MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 4.9° orb

  • MercurytrineNeptuneseparating · 5.1° orb

  • MarstrineSaturnapplying · 5.4° orb

  • SunsquareJupiterseparating · 5.6° orb

  • SunsquarePlutoseparating · 5.6° orb

  • SunconjunctionUranusapplying · 7.0° orb

  • SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 7.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth6 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 19°51′ · House 11

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 20°34′ · House 7

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 11°26′ · House 8

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 9°37′ · House 12

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 22°20′ · House 4

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.7°
  • Ceres square Mercury 1.1°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 2.3°

Jack’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Leo; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Jack’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Pluto, SunAn 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 Venus · Jupiter, Pluto, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°

Jack’s houses

Jack’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LeoSun in Taurus, house 10emptyself, body, how you arrive
2VirgoMercury in Taurus, house 10Moon, Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3LibraVenus in Aries, house 9emptymind, siblings, the local world
4ScorpioPluto in Cancer, house 12emptyhome, family, roots
5SagittariusJupiter in Capricorn, house 6Marscreativity, romance, play
6CapricornSaturn in Pisces, house 8Jupiterwork, habits, health
7AquariusUranus in Taurus, house 10emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8PiscesNeptune in Virgo, house 2Saturnshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AriesMars in Sagittarius, house 5Venusbelief, travel, higher learning
10TaurusVenus in Aries, house 9Sun, Mercury, Uranuscareer, reputation, public life
11GeminiMercury in Taurus, house 10emptyfriends, community, the future
12CancerMoon in Virgo, house 2Plutothe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Jack’s cards

Computed from April 22, 1937. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q39792 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jack Nicholson 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 Nicholson.

Quick answers about Jack Nicholson’s chart

How old is Jack Nicholson?
Jack Nicholson is 89 years old, born April 22, 1937 in Neptune City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jack Nicholson?
Jack Nicholson is a Taurus: born April 22, 1937, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What is Jack Nicholson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 22, 1937 birth.
What time was Jack Nicholson born?
11:00 local time in Neptune City, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Jack Nicholson's rising sign?
Leo rising, calculated from the documented 11:00 birth time in Neptune City, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
How tall is Jack Nicholson?
Jack Nicholson is 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Jack Nicholson's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Jack Nicholson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 19°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jack Nicholson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 22°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jack Nicholson's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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