Jay-Z
Jay-Z (born Shawn Corey Carter; December 4, 1969, Brooklyn, United States), aged 56, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. Best-known releases include Collision Course, Watch the Throne and Reasonable Doubt. Jay-Z's honours include Grammy Award for Best R&B Song, Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance and Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance.
Jay-Z’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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Jay-Z’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
Jay-Z’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Jay-Z, according to the stars
Core essence
Jay-Z is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Jay-Z is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Jay-Z cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Jay-Z needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Jay-Z creates
How Jay-Z makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Jay-Z creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Jay-Z is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Jay-Z is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Jay-Z goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Jay-Z's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Jay-Z's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 4, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Jay-Z was born on December 4, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Jay-Z's birth date, December 4, 1969, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Jay-Z’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jay-Z's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Jay-Z combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Jay-Z’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jay-Z, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Libra 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.
stableMercurysextileMars0.2° to 1.0° orb
Jay-Z’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.6° to 1.8° orb
Jay-Z’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
Jay-Z’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextilePluto2.3° to 3.5° orb
Jay-Z’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileUranus3.8° to 4.8° orb
Jay-Z’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.9° to 5.5° orb
Jay-Z’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.8° to 5.1° orb
Jay-Z’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarstrineJupiter5.7° to 6.3° orb
Jay-Z’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 4.2° to 16.4° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileJupiterorb from 4.7° to 6.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Jay-Z’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°25′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Jay-Z may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAquarius 11°56′ (moves 0.31° 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. Jay-Z is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosLibra 25°01′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Jay-Z is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 5°38′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Jay-Z needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Jay-Z guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 Sun 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron trine Venus 2.3°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.4°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.5°
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 2.9°
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°).
Jay-Z’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. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Jay-Z is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Jay-Z’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 Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 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.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.5°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jay-Z, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Jay-Z’s family here
One relative of Jay-Z also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Jay-Z’s cards
Every card is computed from December 4, 1969, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jay-Z, 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
Jay-Z’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q62766, 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 Photo Courtesy of NYS Senate Media Services, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jay-Z at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube 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 Jay-Z.
Quick answers about Jay-Z’s chart
- How old is Jay-Z?
- Jay-Z is 56 years old, born December 4, 1969 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jay-Z?
- Jay-Z is a Sagittarius: born December 4, 1969, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rooster.
- What is Jay-Z's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 4, 1969 birth.
- What time was Jay-Z 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 Jay-Z's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the December 4, 1969 birth date.
- What is Jay-Z's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 4, 1969 birth date.
- Where is Jay-Z's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jay-Z's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
