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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Jake
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
In 1980, 567 American boys were registered Jake — 332nd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jake’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, not the name they published under.
7
Expression · depth and research
2
Soul Urge · closeness
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on B (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jake’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1980, 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 Jake apart
The BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role came in 2005, when Jake Gyllenhaal was 25.
The schooling ran through Young Actors Space and The Center for Early Education.
Jake Gyllenhaal was 11 when the work began in 1991.
The family line: born to Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and Stephen Gyllenhaal.
On Wikipedia the categories read Gyllenhaal family, Harvard-Westlake School alumni and American male feminists.
Alexis Sánchez (1988) and Alyssa Milano (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Young Actors Space, The Center for Early Education and Harvard-Westlake School
- Awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (2005)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1991
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 84
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. Working below.
Where Jake sits
Six lines
Jake’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Jake Gyllenhaal
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Los Angeles at 20:08, Jake Gyllenhaal’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Los Angeles was Almach, in Andromeda, 81.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
Los Angeles sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Los Angeles on any night.
Sun 40° below the horizon, Moon up and 96% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
- Known as
- Jake Gyllenhaal
- Born in
- Los Angeles, United States
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Jake's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Warrior 武曲, The Minister 天相 in 寅
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 1/3
Sacral authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Sagittarius · No retrogrades at all
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
Jake Gyllenhaal's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 4 means →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.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 1.8° orb
MoontrineSaturnapplying · 2.0° orb
MarssquarePlutoapplying · 2.3° orb
SunsextilePlutoseparating · 4.5° orb
VenusconjunctionUranusseparating · 4.6° orb
MoonoppositionVenusseparating · 4.7° orb
SunconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 5.8° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 6.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 13°58′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 25°13′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 27°53′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 24°00′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 28°57′ · House 3
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Jake’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Jake’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| 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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More charts like Jake’s
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Born in Monkey years
- Hans VanakenBelgian footballer (born 1992)
- Chris BradyAmerican soccer player
- Andreas SchjelderupNorwegian footballer (born 2004)
Also born on December 19
- Alexis Sánchez1988
- Alyssa Milano1972
- Abigail Johnson1961
- Maurice White1941
- Ramsey Nouah1970
- Amy Locane1971
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Natalia GrossmanAmerican sport climber
- Iris LawBritish model
- Flo MilliAmerican rapper
Other Sagittarius Monkey charts
- Rachel GriffithsAustralian actress
- Niels Ryberg FinsenFaroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent
- Sheldon GlashowAmerican theoretical physicist
- Carl Ferdinand CoriCzech Nobel prize laureate and scientist
Other Radiant Explorers
- Gene BarryAmerican stage, screen, and television actor
- Ian McEwanBritish author (born 1948)
- Charles Thomson Rees WilsonScottish physicist and meteorologist
- Nikolay BasovSoviet physicist
Other Leo risings with documented times
- Ashley OlsenAmerican businesswoman, fashion designer and actress (born 1986)
- Nicole RichieAmerican television personality and actress
- Busy PhilippsAmerican actress
- Wyatt RussellAmerican actor
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Jake’s cards
Computed from December 19, 1980. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmperorAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Jake’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q133313 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jake Gyllenhaal.
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.
- 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.
- What is Jake Gyllenhaal's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
