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Jessica Simpson

Jessica Simpson (born July 10, 1980, Abilene, United States, 15:50), aged 46, is an American singer and actress. Best-known releases include Sweet Kisses, A Public Affair and Irresistible.

Jessica Simpson’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Jessica Simpson’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Strategist

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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

Jessica ranked 3rd among girls and 780th among boys in 1980, the year of this birth, with 33,924 American girls and 126 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jessica’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

3

Soul Urge · being heard

6

Personality · caring, responsible

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

8 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia

Sky blue · Pearl · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1980, 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

Nikola Tesla (1856) and Alice Munro (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Jessica, according to the stars

Core essence

Jessica feels the room before entering it. The core of Jessica is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Jessica, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Jessica is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Jessica needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Jessica wants to be loved

Jessica wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Jessica like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Jessica creates

How Jessica makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Jessica builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Jessica is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Jessica 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Jessica fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jessica

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Jessica Simpson

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

Read from the sky above Abilene at 15:50, Jessica Simpson’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Abilene that night

Computed for 32.45°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Abilene at the birth hour: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 14.2° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.

From 32.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −57.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Abilene on any night.

Sun -60° below the horizon, Moon up and 2% lit at new moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Abilene, United States
Lives in
Los Angeles

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

Against Abilene, Shared Places reads Los Angeles as weak for this chart: 44 of 100, 104th of 173 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Bangkok, Thailand, 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 Debater 巨門 in 戌

Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Career

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 4/6

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Cancer · T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet

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 Simpson at a glance

Cancer Sun

Guards the people, guards the past.

Jessica Simpson's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time.

What Cancer means →

Metal Monkey

Wit is the tool.

Jessica Simpson was born on July 10, 1980, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

Jessica Simpson's birth date, July 10, 1980, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Jessica’s chart

Jessica’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.3° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.5° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 1.1° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.2° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.5° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.5° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.6° orbSun in Cancer · 18°43′ · house 9☉18°Moon in Cancer · 1°11′ · house 9☽1°Mercury in Cancer · 20°10′ · house 9 · retrograde☿℞20°Venus in Gemini · 16°21′ · house 8♀16°Mars in Libra · 0°04′ · house 12♂0°Jupiter in Virgo · 7°41′ · house 11♃7°Saturn in Virgo · 22°11′ · house 11♄22°Uranus in Scorpio · 21°40′ · house 1 · retrograde♅℞21°Neptune in Sagittarius · 20°34′ · house 2 · retrograde♆℞20°Pluto in Libra · 19°01′ · house 12♇19°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCSco 13°40′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCTau 13°40′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCLeo 19°15′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICAqr 19°15′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunsquarePlutoapplying · 0.3° orb

    Jessica’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • SaturnsextileUranusseparating · 0.5° orb

    Jessica’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • MoonsquareMarsseparating · 1.1° orb

    Jessica’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • MercurysquarePlutoapplying · 1.2° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 1.5° orb

  • MercurytrineUranusseparating · 1.5° orb

  • SaturnsquareNeptuneseparating · 1.6° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.6° orb

  • MercurysextileSaturnseparating · 2.0° orb

  • VenustrinePlutoapplying · 2.7° orb

  • SuntrineUranusapplying · 2.9° orb

  • SunsextileSaturnapplying · 3.5° orb

  • VenusoppositionNeptuneapplying · 4.2° orb

  • VenussquareSaturnapplying · 5.8° orb

  • MarsconjunctionSaturnseparating · 7.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 17°25′ · House 7

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 19°22′ · House 8

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 26°40′ · House 10

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 23°59′ · House 7

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 10°52′ · House 12

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Pluto 0.3°
  • Ceres opposition Neptune 1.2°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 1.3°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 1.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.3°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 2.7°
  • Ceres square Saturn 2.8°

Jessica’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Jessica’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Cancer · Sun, Moon, MercuryThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.4°
  • Sun quintile Mars 0.6°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun quincunx Neptune 1.8°

Jessica’s houses

Jessica’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 12Uranusself, body, how you arrive
2SagittariusJupiter in Virgo, house 11Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3CapricornSaturn in Virgo, house 11emptymind, siblings, the local world
4AquariusUranus in Scorpio, house 1emptyhome, family, roots
5PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 2emptycreativity, romance, play
6AriesMars in Libra, house 12emptywork, habits, health
7TaurusVenus in Gemini, house 8emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8GeminiMercury in Cancer, house 9Venusshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CancerMoon in Cancer, house 9Sun, Moon, Mercurybelief, travel, higher learning
10LeoSun in Cancer, house 9emptycareer, reputation, public life
11VirgoMercury in Cancer, house 9Jupiter, Saturnfriends, community, the future
12LibraVenus in Gemini, house 8Mars, Plutothe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Jessica’s family here

3 relatives of Jessica Simpson also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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Jessica’s cards

Computed from July 10, 1980. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Strategist

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jessica’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q168992 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Mike Kaplan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jessica Simpson at Wikipedia, jessicasimpson.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jessica Simpson.

Quick answers about Jessica Simpson’s chart

How old is Jessica Simpson?
Jessica Simpson is 46 years old, born July 10, 1980 in Abilene, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jessica Simpson?
Jessica Simpson is a Cancer: born July 10, 1980, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time.
What is Jessica Simpson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 10, 1980 birth.
What time was Jessica Simpson born?
15:50 local time in Abilene, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Jessica Simpson's rising sign?
Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 15:50 birth time in Abilene, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
How tall is Jessica Simpson?
Jessica Simpson is 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Jessica Simpson's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Jessica Simpson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 17°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jessica Simpson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 10°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jessica Simpson's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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