Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens (born September 12, 1913, Oakville, United States; died 1980), was an American track and field athlete. Owens's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, IAAF Hall of Fame and Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Jesse Owens’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Ox, with 
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Jesse Owens’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Jesse in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~444,920
Americans share it since 1880
1981
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Jesse’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Jesse, according to the stars
Core essence
Jesse 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 Jesse is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Jesse 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 Jesse 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 Jesse wants to be loved
Jesse 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 Jesse openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Jesse creates
How Jesse makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Jesse creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Jesse is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Jesse is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Jesse scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Jesse's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jesse sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Jesse Owens's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 12, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Jesse Owens was born on September 12, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Jesse Owens's birth date, September 12, 1913, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Jesse’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jesse Owens' date-only chart is Sun square Saturn, with an orb of about 2°.
- Jesse Owens combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Jesse’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jesse Owens, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Aquarius 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.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb
Jesse’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.1° to 3.0° orb
Jesse’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.5° to 3.0° orb
Jesse’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.0° to 4.0° orb
Jesse’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.4° orb
Jesse’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.0° orb
Jesse’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.4° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 3.6° to 14.9° depending on birth time
possibleVenussextileSaturnorb from 3.9° to 5.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 6.0° to 17.9° depending on birth time
possibleMercurytrineJupiterorb from 6.8° to 8.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Jesse’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 ℞Pisces 12°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Jesse absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresSagittarius or Scorpio during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Jesse is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLibra 6°20′ (moves 0.82° 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. Jesse is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 28°42′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Jesse is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 21°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Jesse is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.8°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.3°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.4°
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°).
Jesse’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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Jesse is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Jesse’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jesse Owens, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Jesse’s cards
Every card is computed from September 12, 1913, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jesse Owens, 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
Jesse’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q52651, 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 Acme News Photos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jesse Owens at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Jesse Owens.
Quick answers about Jesse Owens’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jesse Owens?
- Jesse Owens was a Virgo: born September 12, 1913, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Ox.
- What was Jesse Owens's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 12, 1913 birth.
- What time was Jesse Owens 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.
- How tall was Jesse Owens?
- Jesse Owens was 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Jesse Owens's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 12, 1913 birth date.
- What was Jesse Owens's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 12, 1913 birth date.
- Where was Jesse Owens's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jesse Owens's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
