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Jalen Brunson

Jalen Brunson (born August 31, 1996, New Brunswick, United States), aged 30, is an American basketball player (born 1996). Brunson has played for New York Knicks, Dallas Mavericks and Villanova Wildcats men's basketball. Brunson's honours include Oscar Robertson Trophy, Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award and Best NBA Player ESPY Award.

Jalen Brunson’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Jalen Brunson’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Storyteller

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#443

US rank in 2025

~42,547

Americans share it since 1880

2000

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Jalen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Lilac · Flame orange

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Jalen, according to the stars

Core essence

Jalen notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Jalen is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Jalen runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Jalen needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Jalen wants to be loved

Jalen wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Jalen gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Jalen creates

How Jalen makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Jalen creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: Jalen is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Jalen 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 Jalen leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jalen does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Jalen's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Jalen sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Jalen

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jalen

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Jalen

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jalen

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

PracticalVisionary
Jalen

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jalen

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jalen Brunson

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

Jalen’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 87.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 16.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Jalen Brunson in 15 seconds

Virgo Sun

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

Jalen Brunson's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 31, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Fire Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Jalen Brunson was born on August 31, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

Jalen Brunson's birth date, August 31, 1996, 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 Jalen’s chart

Jalen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Jalen Brunson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.7° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.8° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.1° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.1° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.6° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 2° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2.2° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.4° orbSun in Virgo · 8°31′☉8°Moon in Aries · 18°18′☽18°Mercury in Libra · 2°53′☿2°Venus in Cancer · 23°08′♀23°Mars in Cancer · 24°12′♂24°Jupiter in Capricorn · 7°50′ · retrograde♃℞7°Saturn in Aries · 5°53′ · retrograde♄℞5°Uranus in Aquarius · 1°15′ · retrograde♅℞1°Neptune in Capricorn · 25°19′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Sagittarius · 0°28′♇0°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter0.2° to 1.2° orb

    Jalen’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune0.8° to 1.4° orb

    Jalen’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableUranussextilePluto0.8° orb

    Jalen’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars0.9° to 1.3° orb

    Jalen’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus1.5° to 1.8° orb

    Jalen’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune1.7° to 2.7° orb

    Jalen’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.9° to 2.0° orb

    Jalen’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto2.3° to 2.6° orb

    Jalen’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.8° to 3.2° orb

    Jalen’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus4.6° to 4.7° orb

    Jalen’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.8° to 5.1° orb

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

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb

    Jalen’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal7 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Jalen’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 14°20′ (moves 0.13° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Jalen is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 7°09′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Jalen is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 1°49′ (moves 0.69° over the day)

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

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Jalen is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 24°13′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Jalen feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 7°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Jalen is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Hygiea square Mars 0.0°
  • Eros square Uranus 0.6°
  • Hygiea square Venus 1.1°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 1.1°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 1.3°
  • Ceres square Sun 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.8°

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°).

Jalen’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Jalen 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 Jalen’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 0.7°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 1.3°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 1.4°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jalen Brunson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Jalen’s cards

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Wheel of Fortune

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The Gilded Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Jalen Brunson, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Jalen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17305725, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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 Jalen Brunson’s chart

How old is Jalen Brunson?
Jalen Brunson is 30 years old, born August 31, 1996 in New Brunswick, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jalen Brunson?
Jalen Brunson is a Virgo: born August 31, 1996, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rat.
What is Jalen Brunson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 31, 1996 birth.
What time was Jalen Brunson born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
How tall is Jalen Brunson?
Jalen Brunson is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Jalen Brunson's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the August 31, 1996 birth date.
What is Jalen Brunson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 31, 1996 birth date.
Where is Jalen Brunson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jalen Brunson's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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