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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, Chinese zodiac is 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 1976

2000

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1996, Jalen came 222nd among boys and 2,186th among girls, carried by 1,367 American boys and 62 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jalen’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

6

Soul Urge · being needed

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Jalen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Jalen apart

Richard Gere (1949) and Queen Rania of Jordan (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Jalen sits

Six lines

Jalen’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over New Brunswick that night

Computed for 40.49°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Vega stood nearest the zenith over New Brunswick at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.8° above the horizon in Lyra.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New Brunswick at all: they sit past the −49.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 86% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 16° down.

How unusual Jalen's chart is

Chart pattern score

27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Jupiter · 1 planet 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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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.

What Virgo means →

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.

What the Rat means →

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.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Jalen’s chart

Jalen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° Aries depending on the hour.

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.

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableMercurytrineUranus1.5° to 1.8° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune1.7° to 2.7° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto2.3° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.8° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus4.6° to 4.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter4.8° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Jalen’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in Jalen’s chart

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

  • 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°

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Jalen’s cards

Computed from August 31, 1996. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Storyteller

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jalen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17305725 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. 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, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

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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.
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.
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.
What is Jalen Brunson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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