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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox.

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 from the April 22, 1937 birth date.

What is Jack Nicholson's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Gemini at 19°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 22, 1937 birth time.

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.

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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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

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Jack’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Jack sits

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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

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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 →

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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Jack’s chart

Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Jack Nicholson's timed chart: Sun in the 10th house, Mercury in the 10th house and Uranus in the 10th house.
The tightest major aspect in Jack Nicholson's timed chart is Jupiter opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
Jack Nicholson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.

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.

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
Jack’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 2.5° orb
Jack’s feelings open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoontrineJupiterseparating · 2.6° orb
Jack’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
JupitersextileSaturnseparating · 3.2° orb
Jack’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SaturntrinePlutoseparating · 3.2° orb
Jack’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercurytrineJupiterapplying · 4.9° orb
Jack’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 4.9° orb
Jack’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercurytrineNeptuneseparating · 5.1° orb
Jack’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
MarstrineSaturnapplying · 5.4° orb
Jack’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
SunsquareJupiterseparating · 5.6° orb
Jack’s core identity grinds against their growth.
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 5.6° orb
Jack’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunconjunctionUranusapplying · 7.0° orb
Jack’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 7.3° orb
Jack’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

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

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.

⚷ ChironGemini 19°51′ · House 11
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Jack turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresAquarius 20°34′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Jack is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosPisces 11°26′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Jack is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaCancer 9°37′ · House 12
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Jack is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 22°20′ · House 4
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. Jack 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.

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

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°).

Jack’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Ascendant, Leo; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Jack is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Jack’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

Stellium 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 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 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 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.

Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°

Jack’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Leo	Sun in Taurus, house 10	empty	self, body, how you arrive
2	Virgo	Mercury in Taurus, house 10	Moon, Neptune	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Libra	Venus in Aries, house 9	empty	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Scorpio	Pluto in Cancer, house 12	empty	home, family, roots
5	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Capricorn, house 6	Mars	creativity, romance, play
6	Capricorn	Saturn in Pisces, house 8	Jupiter	work, habits, health
7	Aquarius	Uranus in Taurus, house 10	empty	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Pisces	Neptune in Virgo, house 2	Saturn	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Aries	Mars in Sagittarius, house 5	Venus	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Taurus	Venus in Aries, house 9	Sun, Mercury, Uranus	career, reputation, public life
11	Gemini	Mercury in Taurus, house 10	empty	friends, community, the future
12	Cancer	Moon in Virgo, house 2	Pluto	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Jack’s cards

Every card is computed from April 22, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

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The Sun

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The Steadfast Scholar

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

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 data comes from

Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q39792, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 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. 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.

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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox.
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 from the April 22, 1937 birth date.
What is Jack Nicholson's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Gemini at 19°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 22, 1937 birth time.
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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Jack, according to the stars

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Taurus Sun

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Life Path 1

What stands out in Jack’s chart

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

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Jack’s dominant planets

Configurations in Jack’s chart

Minor aspects

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