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Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons (born September 19, 1948, Cowes, United Kingdom), aged 78, is a British actor (born 1948). Irons's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and Golden Globe Awards.

Jeremy Irons’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Jeremy Irons’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Explorer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#292

US rank in 2025

~448,737

Americans share it since 1923

1977

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1948, Jeremy came 833rd among boys and 5,597th among girls, carried by 67 American boys and 5 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jeremy’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

7

Soul Urge · understanding

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on J (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Jeremy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1948, 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 Jeremy apart

Jeremy Irons took the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1984, at 36.

The classrooms behind this chart: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Sherborne School.

The working life starts in 1969, at 21.

The family line: married Sinéad Cusack and raised one child.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jeremy Irons: Cusack family (Ireland), English activists and British people of Scottish descent.

William Golding (1911) and Jimmy Fallon (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Sherborne School
Instruments
drum and voice
Awards
Academy Award for Best Actor (1991), Donostia Award (1997) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (2006)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Actor
Working from
1969
Sport
equitation
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
88

What the chart says

Jeremy, according to the stars

Core essence

Jeremy notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Jeremy is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Jeremy runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Jeremy needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Jeremy wants to be loved

Jeremy wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Jeremy openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Jeremy creates

How Jeremy makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Jeremy creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Jeremy is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Jeremy 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Jeremy runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Jeremy's birth date. Working below.

Where Jeremy sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jeremy

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jeremy

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

PrivateExpressive
Jeremy

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jeremy

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

PracticalVisionary
Jeremy

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jeremy

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jeremy Irons

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cowes 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 Cowes that night

Computed for 50.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cowes was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 84.2° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.

Cowes sits at 50.8°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −39.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cowes on any night.

The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 17° below the horizon.

How unusual Jeremy's chart is

Chart pattern score

36 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree · No retrogrades at all

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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The quick version

Virgo Sun

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

Jeremy Irons's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 19, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Earth Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Jeremy Irons was born on September 19, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Jeremy Irons's birth date, September 19, 1948, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Jeremy’s chart

Jeremy’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.4° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 0.6° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.9° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 3.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.7° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.1° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 4.2° orbSun in Virgo · 26°24′☉26°Moon in Aries · 7°58′☽7°Mercury in Libra · 21°47′☿21°Venus in Leo · 11°15′♀11°Mars in Scorpio · 10°37′♂10°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 20°53′♃20°Saturn in Virgo · 0°02′♄0°Uranus in Cancer · 0°27′♅0°Neptune in Libra · 12°07′♆12°Pluto in Leo · 15°47′♇15°

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

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter0.4° to 1.4° orb

    Jeremy’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussquareMars0.4° to 0.8° orb

    Jeremy’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune0.4° to 1.4° orb

    Jeremy’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus0.4° to 0.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus3.6° to 4.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto4.8° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.1° to 6.0° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto5.1° orb

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 21°37′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 1°52′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 8°54′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 21°27′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 6°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.3°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Mars 1.7°

Jeremy’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Jeremy’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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 0.8°
  • Mars quintile Saturn 1.4°
  • Mercury quintile Venus 1.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°

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Jeremy’s cards

Computed from September 19, 1948. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Explorer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jeremy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q171745 (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 Copyright owned by Jeremy Irons [Jonathan Hession/Showtime], CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jeremy Irons at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jeremy Irons.

Quick answers about Jeremy Irons’s chart

How old is Jeremy Irons?
Jeremy Irons is 78 years old, born September 19, 1948 in Cowes, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Jeremy Irons?
Jeremy Irons is a Virgo: born September 19, 1948, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Jeremy Irons's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 19, 1948 birth.
What is Jeremy Irons's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Jeremy Irons's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jeremy Irons's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jeremy Irons's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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