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Jensen Ackles

Jensen Ackles (born March 1, 1978, Dallas, United States), aged 48, is an American actor. Notable films include Supernatural, Smallville and Dark Angel. Ackles's honours include TV Guide Award, Poppy Awards and People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Bromance.

Jensen Ackles’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Jensen Ackles’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Seeker

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Jensen in the U.S.?

#282

US rank in 2025

~20,268

Americans share it since 1927

2025

its peak year

The SSA recorded 27 American boys named Jensen in 1978: 1,893rd for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jensen’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

7

Soul Urge · understanding

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on J (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

Jensen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta

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 1978, 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 Jensen apart

Javier Bardem (1969) and Lupita Nyong'o (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Jensen, according to the stars

Core essence

Jensen feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Jensen is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Jensen wants to be loved

Jensen 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 Jensen, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Jensen creates

How Jensen makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Jensen creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Jensen is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Jensen is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jensen 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 Jensen's birth date. Working below.

Where Jensen sits

Six lines

Jensen’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Jensen

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jensen

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Jensen

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jensen

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Jensen

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jensen

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jensen Ackles

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dallas on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Jensen’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 85.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 64.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Dallas that night

Computed for 32.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Dallas at 9 p.m. that evening: Castor of Gemini, within 4.8° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

Dallas sits at 32.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −57.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Dallas on any night.

The Moon, 53% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 33° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Dallas, United States
Lives in
Austin

Wikidata records Austin as Jensen Ackles'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 Jensen Ackles: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Jensen's chart is

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Pisces · Grand trine · No Earth 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.

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Jensen Ackles in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Dreams in full colour.

Jensen Ackles's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 1, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Earth Horse

Can't stand still. Won't.

Jensen Ackles was born on March 1, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 11

Intuition before evidence.

Jensen Ackles's birth date, March 1, 1978, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Jensen’s chart

Jensen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.2° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 2.2° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.3° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.3° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.7° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 5.1° orbSun in Pisces · 10°48′☉10°Moon in Sagittarius · 2°53′☽2°Mercury in Pisces · 13°07′☿13°Venus in Pisces · 20°06′♀20°Mars in Cancer · 22°17′ · retrograde♂℞22°Jupiter in Gemini · 26°14′♃26°Saturn in Leo · 26°03′ · retrograde♄℞26°Uranus in Scorpio · 16°22′ · retrograde♅℞16°Neptune in Sagittarius · 18°13′♆18°Pluto in Libra · 16°13′ · retrograde♇℞16°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn0.1° to 0.2° orb

    Jensen’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune1.3° to 2.5° orb

    Jensen’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenustrineMars1.5° to 2.8° orb

    Jensen’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.9° to 2.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus2.3° to 4.2° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus3.1° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune4.2° to 6.1° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus5.1° to 6.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter5.5° to 6.7° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus5.9° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto6.1° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 2°15′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 9°23′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 28°56′ (moves 0.69° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 22°31′ (moves 0.29° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 4°50′ (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 1.4°
  • Hygiea square Venus 2.4°
  • Eros square Jupiter 2.7°

Jensen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Jensen’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · 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.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Venus, Mars, UranusThree 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.

  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
  • Sun biquintile Pluto 0.6°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.9°

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Jensen’s cards

Computed from March 1, 1978. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jensen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193513 (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 from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jensen Ackles.

Quick answers about Jensen Ackles’s chart

How old is Jensen Ackles?
Jensen Ackles is 48 years old, born March 1, 1978 in Dallas, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jensen Ackles?
Jensen Ackles is a Pisces: born March 1, 1978, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Jensen Ackles's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 1, 1978 birth.
What is Jensen Ackles's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Jensen Ackles's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jensen Ackles's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jensen Ackles's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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