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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Jay-Z
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.
What Jay-Z’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Shawn Corey Carter, not the name they published under.
7
Expression · depth and research
9
Soul Urge · meaning
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jay-Z’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1969, 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 Jay-Z apart
The Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance came in 2004, when Jay-Z was 35.
Study took Jay-Z to Trenton Central High School and George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School.
Jay-Z was 17 when the work began in 1986.
The family line: born to Gloria Carter and Adnes Reeves and raised 3 children.
On Wikipedia the categories read American battle rappers and African-American sports executives and administrators.
Tyra Banks (1973) and Marisa Tomei (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Trenton Central High School and George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2021), Grammy Award for Best R&B Song (2015) and Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance (2015)
- Working from
- 1986
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 88
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. Working below.
Where Jay-Z sits
Six lines
Jay-Z’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Jay-Z
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 1.6° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°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 Brooklyn at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon down and 22% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Shawn Corey Carter
- Known as
- Jay-Z
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
- Lives in
- Bel Air
Wikidata records Bel Air as Jay-Z's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jay-Z: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Jay-Z's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
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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.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Libra 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
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
stableSunsextileUranus3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.9° to 5.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.8° to 5.1° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter5.7° to 6.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°25′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 11°56′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 25°01′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 5°38′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Jay-Z’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Jay-Z’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Jay-Z’s family here
One relative of Jay-Z also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Jay-Z’s cards
Computed from December 4, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jay-Z’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q62766 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Jay-Z's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jay-Z's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
