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, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Jesse
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.?
#184
US rank in 2025
~444,920
Americans share it since 1880
1981
its peak year
In 1913, 1,214 American boys and 31 girls were registered Jesse — 79th among boys and 970th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jesse’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (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
Jesse’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1913, 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 Jesse apart
The Associated Press Athlete of the Year came in 1936, when Jesse Owens was 23.
Study took Jesse Owens to North Platte High School and East Technical High School.
The record gives lung cancer as the cause, and Oak Woods Cemetery as the resting place.
On the family side, Jesse Owens was married M. Ruth Solomon.
On Wikipedia the categories read Sportspeople from Lawrence County, Alabama, Recipients of the Olympic Order and Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Stanisław Lem (1921) and Paul Walker (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- North Platte High School, East Technical High School and Ohio State University
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1976), IAAF Hall of Fame (2012) and Associated Press Athlete of the Year (1936)
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Buried at
- Oak Woods Cemetery
- Sport
- athletics
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 96
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. Working below.
Where Jesse sits
Six lines
Jesse’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Jesse Owens
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oakville 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 Oakville that night
Computed for 34.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Oakville at 9 p.m. that evening: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 1.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Oakville sits at 34.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Oakville at all: they sit past the −55.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 95% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 35° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Oakville, United States
The death is recorded at Tucson, Pima County in 1980.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jesse Owens: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Jesse's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Aquarius 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
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
stableUranusoppositionNeptune6.4° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto7.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 12°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius or Scorpio during this date
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 6°20′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 28°42′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 21°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Jesse’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Jesse’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.
- 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°
More people like Jesse
Other entrepreneurs
- Kiichirō Toyoda1894
- Carlos Slim1940
- Levi Strauss1829
- Li Ka-shing1928
- Guccio Gucci1881
- N. R. Narayana Murthy1946
Born in United States
- Keyes BeechAmerican journalist
- Alfred BesterAmerican author
- Jerome WeidmanAmerican writer
- Stanley KramerAmerican film director and producer
- Willis LambAmerican physicist
- Wayne MorrisAmerican actor
More charts like Jesse’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Kolton MillerAmerican football offensive tackle
- Easton StickAmerican football player
- Austin SchlottmannAmerican football player (born 1995)
Born in Ox years
- Natalie ColeAmerican singer
- Robin WarrenAustralian microbiologist and Nobel Laureate
- Colleen McCulloughAustralian author
Also born on September 12
- Stanisław Lem1921
- Paul Walker1973
- RM1994
- Joshua Cheptegei1996
- Petra Marklund1984
- Kadim Al Sahir1957
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Milan KunderaFranco-Czechoslovak poet and novelist
- Jessica AlbaAmerican actress
- Kanye WestAmerican rapper and record producer
Other Virgo Ox charts
- Janelle BrownAmerican writer
- Billy Ray CyrusAmerican country singer and actor
- Shannon ElizabethAmerican actress
- Adrienne MaloofAmerican businesswoman and television personality
Other Radiant Storytellers
- Douglas Southall FreemanAmerican journalist
- Eric FonerAmerican historian (born 1943)
- Frank D. FackenthalAmerican educator
- Rita DoveAmerican poet and author
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Dmitri MendeleevRussian chemist
- Lyndon B. JohnsonPresident of the United States from 1963 to 1969
- Aung San Suu KyiFormer State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Jesse’s cards
Computed from September 12, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jesse’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q52651 (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 Acme News Photos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jesse Owens 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Jesse Owens's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
