Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal (born Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal; December 19, 1980, Los Angeles, United States, 20:08), aged 45, is an American actor. Notable films include Brokeback Mountain, Spider-Man: Far From Home and The Day After Tomorrow. Gyllenhaal's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Jake Gyllenhaal’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Monkey, with 
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Jake in the U.S.?
#457
US rank in 2025
~129,539
Americans share it since 1880
2004
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Jake’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Jake, according to the stars
Core essence
Jake is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Jake is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Jake processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Jake needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Jake wants to be loved
Jake 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 Jake and watch them fall for you again.
How Jake creates
How Jake makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Jake creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Jake is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Jake is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Jake does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Jake's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jake 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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
Jake Gyllenhaal's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyWit is the tool.
Jake Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Jake Gyllenhaal's birth date, December 19, 1980, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Jake’s chart
- One of the ten planets sits in angular houses in Jake Gyllenhaal's timed chart: Uranus in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Jake Gyllenhaal's timed chart is Mercury conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Jake Gyllenhaal combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
Jake’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 0.5° orb
Jake’s mind and imagination act as one.
JupiterconjunctionSaturnapplying · 0.6° orb
Jake’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.3° orb
Jake’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoontrineJupiterapplying · 1.4° orb
Jake’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 1.8° orb
Jake’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoontrineSaturnapplying · 2.0° orb
Jake’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MarssquarePlutoapplying · 2.3° orb
Jake’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunsextilePlutoseparating · 4.5° orb
Jake’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
VenusconjunctionUranusseparating · 4.6° orb
Jake’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
MoonoppositionVenusseparating · 4.7° orb
Jake’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
SunconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 5.8° orb
Jake’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 6.3° orb
Jake’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Jake’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 13°58′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Jake building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 25°13′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Jake is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosSagittarius 27°53′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Jake attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 24°00′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Jake is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 28°57′ · House 3
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Jake that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.5°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.6°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.3°
- Chiron square Ascendant 1.7°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.4°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.6°
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°).
Jake’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Ascendant, Leo; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Jake is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Jake’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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 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 sesquiquadrate Mars 0.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.1°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
Jake’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 Sagittarius, house 5 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Virgo | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 5 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Libra | Venus in Sagittarius, house 5 | Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 3 | Uranus | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Libra, house 3 | Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Capricorn | Saturn in Libra, house 3 | Mars | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aquarius | Uranus in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 5 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 6 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Taurus | Venus in Sagittarius, house 5 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Gemini | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 5 | Moon | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Cancer | Moon in Gemini, house 11 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Jake’s cards
Every card is computed from December 19, 1980, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Jake’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q133313, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jake Gyllenhaal at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Jake Gyllenhaal’s chart
- How old is Jake Gyllenhaal?
- Jake Gyllenhaal is 45 years old, born December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jake Gyllenhaal?
- Jake Gyllenhaal is a Sagittarius: born December 19, 1980, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Monkey.
- What is Jake Gyllenhaal's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 19, 1980 birth.
- What time was Jake Gyllenhaal born?
- 20:08 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Jake Gyllenhaal's rising sign?
- Leo rising, calculated from the documented 20:08 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Jake Gyllenhaal?
- Jake Gyllenhaal is 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Jake Gyllenhaal's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the December 19, 1980 birth date.
- What is Jake Gyllenhaal's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 19, 1980 birth time.
- Where is Jake Gyllenhaal's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 28°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jake Gyllenhaal's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
