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Jason Segel

Jason Segel (born January 18, 1980, Los Angeles, United States, 21:33), aged 46, is an American actor. Notable films include How I Met Your Mother, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Friends with Benefits.

Jason Segel’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Jason Segel’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Strategist

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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, 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 1980, Jason came 3rd among boys and 602nd among girls, carried by 48,164 American boys and 308 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jason’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

8

Soul Urge · achievement

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

1 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

The record

What sets Jason apart

Harvard-Westlake School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1998, at 18.

Kevin Costner (1955) and Paul Keating (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Harvard-Westlake School
Working from
1998
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Jason, according to the stars

Core essence

Jason is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Jason is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

The vibe

Underneath, Jason needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Jason needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Jason wants to be loved

Jason wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Jason, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Jason creates

How Jason makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Jason 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: Jason is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

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

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Jason channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Jason

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jason

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

PrivateExpressive
Jason

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jason

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

PracticalVisionary
Jason

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jason

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Jason Segel

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Read from the sky above Los Angeles at 21:33, Jason Segel’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Los Angeles that night

Computed for 34.05°N, at the documented birth time.

Elnath stood nearest the zenith over Los Angeles at the birth hour, 84.4° above the horizon in Taurus.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −55.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Los Angeles on any night.

The Moon, 3% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 54° below the horizon.

What Jason's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 寅.

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 3/5

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · Mars retrograde

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.

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Jason Segel at a glance

Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

Jason Segel's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time.

What Capricorn means →

Earth Goat

Kind, and quietly tough.

Jason Segel was born on January 18, 1980, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Jason Segel's birth date, January 18, 1980, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Jason’s chart

Jason’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 0° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.4° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.4° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.1° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.1° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.5° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 5.1° orbSun in Capricorn · 28°18′ · house 5☉28°Moon in Aquarius · 16°32′ · house 6☽16°Mercury in Capricorn · 26°53′ · house 5☿26°Venus in Pisces · 3°46′ · house 7♀3°Mars in Virgo · 15°17′ · house 1 · retrograde♂℞15°Jupiter in Virgo · 9°21′ · house 1 · retrograde♃℞9°Saturn in Virgo · 26°53′ · house 1 · retrograde♄℞26°Uranus in Scorpio · 24°49′ · house 3♅24°Neptune in Sagittarius · 21°33′ · house 4♆21°Pluto in Libra · 21°46′ · house 2♇21°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCVir 23°55′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCPsc 23°55′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCGem 23°23′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSgr 23°23′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantVirgo
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MercurytrineSaturnseparating · 0.0° orb

    Jason’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.2° orb

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

  • SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 1.4° orb

    Jason’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • SuntrineSaturnseparating · 1.4° orb

  • MercurysextileUranusseparating · 2.1° orb

  • SaturnsextileUranusapplying · 2.1° orb

  • SunsextileUranusseparating · 3.5° orb

  • MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 5.1° orb

  • MoontrinePlutoapplying · 5.2° orb

  • SaturnsquareNeptuneapplying · 5.3° orb

  • VenusoppositionJupiterapplying · 5.6° orb

  • MarsconjunctionJupiterseparating · 5.9° orb

  • MarssquareNeptuneseparating · 6.3° orb

  • SunsquarePlutoseparating · 6.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Jason’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 9°08′ · House 9

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 13°25′ · House 8

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 27°43′ · House 7

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 29°35′ · House 7

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 21°32′ · House 1

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.0°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 0.2°
  • Eros sextile Sun 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 0.8°
  • Eros opposition Saturn 0.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Ascendant 2.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.7°
  • Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.7°
  • Eros trine Uranus 2.9°

Jason’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn12.5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury10 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Jason’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus quintile Neptune 0.2°
  • Moon quincunx Mars 1.2°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 2.0°

Jason’s houses

Jason’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1VirgoMercury in Capricorn, house 5Mars, Jupiter, Saturnself, body, how you arrive
2LibraVenus in Pisces, house 7Plutomoney, possessions, self-worth
3ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 2Uranusmind, siblings, the local world
4SagittariusJupiter in Virgo, house 1Neptunehome, family, roots
5CapricornSaturn in Virgo, house 1Sun, Mercurycreativity, romance, play
6AquariusUranus in Scorpio, house 3Moonwork, habits, health
7PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 4Venuspartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AriesMars in Virgo, house 1emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9TaurusVenus in Pisces, house 7emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10GeminiMercury in Capricorn, house 5emptycareer, reputation, public life
11CancerMoon in Aquarius, house 6emptyfriends, community, the future
12LeoSun in Capricorn, house 5emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Jason’s cards

Computed from January 18, 1980. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Strategist

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jason’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q202304 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jason Segel 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 Segel.

Quick answers about Jason Segel’s chart

How old is Jason Segel?
Jason Segel is 46 years old, born January 18, 1980 in Los Angeles, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jason Segel?
Jason Segel is a Capricorn: born January 18, 1980, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time.
What is Jason Segel's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 18, 1980 birth.
What time was Jason Segel born?
21:33 local time in Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Jason Segel's rising sign?
Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 21:33 birth time in Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Jason Segel?
Jason Segel is 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Jason Segel's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Jason Segel's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 9°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jason Segel's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 21°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jason Segel's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (12.5 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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