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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Jared
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 1881
1998
its peak year
The SSA recorded 38 American boys named Jared in 1937: 1,043rd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jared’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jared’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Jared apart
Jack Ma (1964) and Colin Firth (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Jared sits
Six lines
Jared’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Jared Diamond
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Boston that night
Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Boston at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.9° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
Boston sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Boston at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 33% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 21° down.
How unusual Jared's chart is
Chart pattern score
59 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine · No Air planets
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMarssquareNeptune0.9° to 1.5° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableSuntrineUranus3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.0° orb
stableVenustrineMars4.5° to 5.1° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.8° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 0°39′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 18°10′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 25°60′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 26°52′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 8°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.7°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.0°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.2°
Jared’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Jared’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Jared’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Khaman MaluachSouth Sudanese basketball player (born 2006)
- Jaren Jackson Jr.American basketball player (born 1999)
- Josh OkogieNigerian basketball player (born 1998)
Born in Ox years
- Susan BoyleBritish singer
- Warren BeattyAmerican actor and filmmaker
- Rebecca BlackAmerican singer
Also born on September 10
- Jack Ma1964
- Colin Firth1960
- Karl Lagerfeld1933
- Ryan Phillippe1974
- Sam Kerr1993
- Elsa Schiaparelli1890
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- José Ramos-Horta2nd and 5th President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate
- Peter J. RatcliffeBritish biologist & Nobel laureate in medicine
- Takaaki KajitaJapanese physicist and astronomer
Other Virgo Ox charts
- Susan SheehanAmerican journalist
- Justin KaplanAmerican writer and editor
- Richard MarquandBritish film director
- B. B. KingAmerican blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
Other Gilded Healers
- Bella RamseyBritish actor
- Tyler PoseyAmerican actor, musician (b. 1991)
- Bill RancicAmerican businessman
- Jon StewartAmerican comedian, writer, producer, activist, and television host
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Michael C. HallAmerican actor
- Josh RadnorAmerican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- Charli D'AmelioAmerican social media personality
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Jared’s cards
Computed from September 10, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jared’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q205772 (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.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Jared Diamond's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jared Diamond's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
