Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond (born September 10, 1937, Boston, United States), aged 89, is an American scientist, historian, and author (born 1937). Diamond is best known for Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change, The World Until Yesterday and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Diamond's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Royal Society Science Books Prize and Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
Jared Diamond’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Ox, with 
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Jared Diamond’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Jared in the U.S.?
#396
US rank in 2025
~207,119
Americans share it since 1880
1998
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Jared’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Jared, according to the stars
Core essence
Jared 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 Jared is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Jared feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Jared needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Jared wants to be loved
Jared wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Jared openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Jared creates
How Jared makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Jared 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: Jared 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 3 is the creative. Jared is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Jared 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 Jared's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jared sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Jared Diamond's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 10, 1937, 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 Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Jared Diamond was born on September 10, 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 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Jared Diamond's birth date, September 10, 1937, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Jared’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jared Diamond's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air.
- Jared Diamond combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Jared’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jared Diamond, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.3° orb
Jared’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb
Jared’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableVenussquareUranus0.3° to 1.5° orb
Jared’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.7° to 1.6° orb
Jared’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssquareNeptune0.9° to 1.5° orb
Jared’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb
Jared’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrinePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
Jared’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineUranus3.5° to 4.5° orb
Jared’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineUranus4.0° orb
Jared’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineMars4.5° to 5.1° orb
Jared’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
Jared’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.8° to 6.8° orb
Jared’s mind and imagination act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 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.
Jared’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.
⚷ ChironCancer 0°39′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Jared is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 18°10′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
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. Jared is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosTaurus 25°60′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Jared wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 26°52′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Jared at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 8°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Jared leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.7°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.0°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.2°
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°).
Jared’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
5 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Jared 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 Jared’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.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, 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.
Grand trine · Sun, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jared Diamond, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Jared’s cards
Every card is computed from September 10, 1937, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jared Diamond, 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
Jared’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q205772, 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 Aude, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jared Diamond 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jared Diamond.
Quick answers about Jared Diamond’s chart
- How old is Jared Diamond?
- Jared Diamond is 89 years old, born September 10, 1937 in Boston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jared Diamond?
- Jared Diamond is a Virgo: born September 10, 1937, 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 Ox.
- What is Jared Diamond's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 10, 1937 birth.
- What time was Jared Diamond 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.
- What is Jared Diamond's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 10, 1937 birth date.
- What is Jared Diamond's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 10, 1937 birth date.
- Where is Jared Diamond's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jared Diamond's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
