Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman (born October 19, 1977, Montreal, Canada), aged 49, is a Canadian-American film director. Reitman's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Director, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director.
Jason Reitman’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Jason
Jason Reitman’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Jason in the U.S.?
#165
US rank in 2025
~1,057,058
Americans share it since 1880
1977
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1977, Jason came 2nd among boys and 562nd among girls, carried by 55,631 American boys and 313 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jason’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jason’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1977, 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 Jason apart
Jason Reitman took the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director in 2009, at 32.
Training came by way of Harvard-Westlake School and University of Southern California.
On the family side, Jason Reitman was born to Geneviève Robert and Ivan Reitman.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jason Reitman: Canadian people of Slovak-Jewish descent, Film directors from Montreal and American people of Slovak-Jewish descent.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910) and John Lithgow (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Harvard-Westlake School and University of Southern California
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Director (2010), Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay (2010) and Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director (2009)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Picture
- Citizenship
- United States and Canada
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 40
What the chart says
Jason, according to the stars
Core essence
Jason makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Jason is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Jason wants to be loved
Jason wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Jason gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Jason creates
How Jason makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Jason creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Jason is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Jason is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jason 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 Jason's birth date. Working below.
Where Jason sits
Six lines
Jason’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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Jason Reitman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Montreal 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 Montreal that night
Computed for 45.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Montreal at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 13.8° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.
Montreal sits at 45.5°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −44.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Montreal on any night.
The Moon, 56% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.
How unusual Jason's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Libra · T-square onto Sun · A bowl chart
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 →Jason Reitman at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Jason Reitman's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 19, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Jason Reitman was born on October 19, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Jason Reitman's birth date, October 19, 1977, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Jason’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jason Reitman's date-only chart is Mercury square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jason Reitman combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Jason’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 4° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonoppositionMars0.0° to 7.8° orb
Jason’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 0.8° orb
Jason’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.1° to 0.8° orb
Jason’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareMars0.4° to 0.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.7° to 2.3° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn1.5° to 2.4° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter2.3° to 3.5° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.0° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Jason’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 3°46′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°05′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 11°60′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 0°32′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 20°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.3°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.4°
- Eros square Pluto 2.6°
Jason’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon3 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Jason’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Venus, PlutoThree 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.
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.0°
- Venus quintile Neptune 1.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.5°
More people like Jason
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- Andy Samberg1978
- Benjamin Millepied1977
- James Corden1978
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Born in Canada
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- Georgette LeBlancCanadian poet (born 1977)
- Shawn AshmoreCanadian actor
- Ryan ReynoldsCanadian-American actor and entrepreneur
- Jillian HarrisCanadian television presenter
- Ray NaylerCanadian writer
More charts like Jason’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Catherine Zeta-JonesBritish actress
- Susan SarandonAmerican actress and activist
- Michael DouglasAmerican actor, producer and activist
Born in Snake years
- Jeff WittekAmerican internet personality
- Layla TaylorAmerican social media personality
- Robby HoffmanCanadian-American comedian and writer
Also born on October 19
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar1910
- John Lithgow1945
- Rebecca Ferguson1983
- Lil Durk1992
- Ashlyn Harris1985
- Ty Pennington1964
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- William WordsworthEnglish Romantic poet
- Ted HughesEnglish poet and children's writer
- William Jay SmithAmerican writer, translator, editor
Other Libra Snake charts
- Caleb McLaughlinAmerican actor
- Travis KelceAmerican football player
- ArcaVenezuelan singer, songwriter, DJ, producer and model
- Paige BueckersAmerican basketball player
Other Steadfast Strategists
- Thiago SilvaBrazilian association football player
- Bella HadidAmerican model
- Mia WasikowskaAustralian actress
- LudacrisAmerican rapper and actor
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Jeremy McNicholsAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Sean RhyanAmerican football player
- Lenny KriegGerman football player
From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Jason’s cards
Computed from October 19, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jason’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q314502 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jason Reitman at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jason Reitman.
Quick answers about Jason Reitman’s chart
- How old is Jason Reitman?
- Jason Reitman is 49 years old, born October 19, 1977 in Montreal, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Jason Reitman?
- Jason Reitman is a Libra: born October 19, 1977, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Jason Reitman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 19, 1977 birth.
- What is Jason Reitman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jason Reitman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jason Reitman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jason Reitman's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
