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Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba (born April 28, 1981, Pomona, United States, 13:51), aged 45, is an American actress. Alba is best known for Fantastic Four, Dark Angel and Sin City. Alba's honours include Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress and ALMA Award.

Jessica Alba’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Jessica Alba’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#665

US rank in 2025

~1,054,307

Americans share it since 1880

1987

its peak year

The SSA recorded 42,531 American girls and 165 boys named Jessica in 1981: 2nd among girls and 674th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jessica’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

8

Soul Urge · achievement

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on J (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Jessica’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

White · Blush · Moonlight white

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 1981, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Jessica apart

Penélope Cruz (1974) and Kurt Gödel (1906) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States and Canada
Languages
English

What the chart says

Jessica, according to the stars

Core essence

Jessica is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Jessica is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Jessica 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 Jessica 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 Jessica wants to be loved

Jessica wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Jessica is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Jessica creates

How Jessica 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. Jessica 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: Jessica 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Jessica is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Jessica is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Jessica's birth date. Working below.

Where Jessica sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jessica

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jessica

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Jessica

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jessica

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

PracticalVisionary
Jessica

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jessica

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Pomona at 13:51, Jessica Alba’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Pomona that night

Computed for 34.06°N, at the documented birth time.

Atik stood nearest the zenith over Pomona at the birth hour, 86.1° above the horizon in Perseus.

Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Pomona sits at 34.1°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 Pomona at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun -66° below the horizon, Moon down and 35% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Pomona, United States
Lives in
Los Angeles

Wikidata records Los Angeles as Jessica Alba's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

Against Pomona, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as mixed for this chart: 53 of 100, 85th of 169 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Baku, Azerbaijan, at 100.

Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.

What Jessica's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Enforcer 廉貞, The Breaker 破軍 in 酉

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 1/4

Emotional authority · Triple Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Taurus · Five planets retrograde

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.

Score your own chart →

Jessica Alba in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Jessica Alba's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.

What Taurus means →

Metal Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Jessica Alba was born on April 28, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 6

Home is the project.

Jessica Alba's birth date, April 28, 1981, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Jessica’s chart

Jessica’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.4° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.4° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.8° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.9° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.5° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 4.2° orbSun in Taurus · 8°28′ · house 10☉8°Moon in Aquarius · 26°00′ · house 7☽26°Mercury in Taurus · 9°51′ · house 10☿9°Venus in Taurus · 14°02′ · house 10♀14°Mars in Taurus · 2°40′ · house 10♂2°Jupiter in Libra · 1°41′ · house 3 · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Libra · 4°07′ · house 3 · retrograde♄℞4°Uranus in Scorpio · 28°56′ · house 4 · retrograde♅℞28°Neptune in Sagittarius · 24°34′ · house 5 · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Libra · 22°32′ · house 3 · retrograde♇℞22°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLeo 27°57′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAqr 27°57′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCTau 24°06′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSco 24°06′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 1.4° orb

    Jessica’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • MoonsextileNeptuneseparating · 1.4° orb

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

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.0° orb

    Jessica’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • JupiterconjunctionSaturnseparating · 2.4° orb

  • JupitersextileUranusapplying · 2.8° orb

  • MoonsquareUranusapplying · 2.9° orb

  • MoontrinePlutoseparating · 3.5° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 4.2° orb

  • SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 5.6° orb

  • SunconjunctionMarsseparating · 5.8° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionMarsseparating · 7.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 17°22′ · House 10

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 24°24′ · House 12

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 13°21′ · House 8

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 12°13′ · House 11

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 13°24′ · House 4

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Venus 0.7°
  • Ceres square Pluto 1.9°

Jessica’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus15 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Leo; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Aquarius; disposes Moon; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Jessica’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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.

  • Moon biquintile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.3°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.3°
  • Sun quintile Moon 0.5°
  • Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.0°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 1.4°

Jessica’s houses

Jessica’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LeoSun in Taurus, house 10emptyself, body, how you arrive
2VirgoMercury in Taurus, house 10emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3LibraVenus in Taurus, house 10Jupiter, Saturn, Plutomind, siblings, the local world
4ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 3Uranushome, family, roots
5SagittariusJupiter in Libra, house 3Neptunecreativity, romance, play
6CapricornSaturn in Libra, house 3emptywork, habits, health
7AquariusUranus in Scorpio, house 4Moonpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 5emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AriesMars in Taurus, house 10emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10TaurusVenus in Taurus, house 10Sun, Mercury, Venus, Marscareer, reputation, public life
11GeminiMercury in Taurus, house 10emptyfriends, community, the future
12CancerMoon in Aquarius, house 7emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Jessica’s cards

Computed from April 28, 1981. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jessica’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44077 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, 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 Jessica Alba.

Quick answers about Jessica Alba’s chart

How old is Jessica Alba?
Jessica Alba is 45 years old, born April 28, 1981 in Pomona, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jessica Alba?
Jessica Alba is a Taurus: born April 28, 1981, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What is Jessica Alba's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 28, 1981 birth.
What time was Jessica Alba born?
13:51 local time in Pomona, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Jessica Alba's rising sign?
Leo rising, calculated from the documented 13:51 birth time in Pomona, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Jessica Alba?
Jessica Alba is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Jessica Alba's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Jessica Alba's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 17°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jessica Alba's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 13°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jessica Alba's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (15 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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