Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison (born December 8, 1943, Melbourne, United States, 11:55; died 1971), was an American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors.
Jim Morrison’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Jim
Jim Morrison’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Jim in the U.S.?
#3159
US rank in 2025
~153,938
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
Jim ranked 75th among boys and 2,630th among girls in 1943, the year of this birth, with 3,682 American boys and 13 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jim’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 M (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
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 1943, 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 Jim apart
Training came by way of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and St. Petersburg College.
The working life starts in 1965, at 22.
The grave is at grave of Jim Morrison.
The family line: born to George Stephen Morrison and married Pamela Courson.
Wikipedia's editors put Jim Morrison under Drug-related deaths in France, Death conspiracy theories and Entertainers from Topanga, California.
The same date carries James Tate. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, St. Petersburg College and George Washington Middle School
- Instruments
- maraca, keyboard instrument, harmonica and percussion instrument
- Working from
- 1965
- Buried at
- grave of Jim Morrison
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 150
What the chart says
Jim, according to the stars
Core essence
Jim is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Jim is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Jim is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Jim needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Jim wants to be loved
Jim wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Jim even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Jim creates
How Jim makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Jim creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Jim is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Jim is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Jim leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Jim scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Jim's birth date. Working below.
Where Jim sits
Six lines
Jim’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Jim Morrison
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Melbourne on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Melbourne at 11:55, Jim Morrison’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Melbourne that night
Computed for 28.08°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Melbourne at the birth hour: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 1.8° of the exact zenith.
Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 80 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 28.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −61.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Acrux permanently out of view.
The Moon, 90% lit at waxing gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat -36° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Melbourne, United States
The death is recorded at 4th arrondissement of Paris, Paris Centre in 1971.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Jim's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Elder 天梁 in 午
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Self
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 5/1
Emotional authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 planets at a critical degree · Mars 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.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Jim Morrison's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
What Sagittarius means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Jim Morrison was born on December 8, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Jim Morrison's birth date, December 8, 1943, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Jim’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Jim Morrison's timed chart: Moon in the 4th house, Venus in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 7th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Jim Morrison's timed chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Jim Morrison combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Jim’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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercurysextileVenusseparating · 0.5° orb
Jim’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonsquarePlutoseparating · 0.6° orb
Jim’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
UranussextilePlutoseparating · 2.1° orb
Jim’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 2.4° orb
MercurysquareNeptuneapplying · 3.1° orb
MarssextilePlutoapplying · 3.1° orb
JupitersextileSaturnseparating · 3.3° orb
VenussextileJupiterseparating · 3.4° orb
MercurytrineJupiterseparating · 3.9° orb
SunoppositionMarsseparating · 4.0° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.6° orb
MarsconjunctionUranusapplying · 5.2° orb
VenustrineSaturnseparating · 6.6° orb
MercuryoppositionSaturnseparating · 7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Jim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironVirgo 15°19′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 4°59′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 17°28′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 22°06′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°03′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Sun 0.4°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.0°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.7°
- Eros conjunction Sun 1.8°
Jim’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Jim’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 biquintile Uranus 0.1°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Sun quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Sun biquintile Moon 0.5°
- Moon semi-square Saturn 0.5°
- Moon biquintile Neptune 0.8°
Jim’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 5 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 9 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aries | Mars in Gemini, house 5 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Taurus | Venus in Scorpio, house 10 | Moon | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 12 | Mars, Saturn, Uranus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Cancer | Moon in Taurus, house 4 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Leo | Sun in Sagittarius, house 11 | Jupiter, Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 12 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Libra | Venus in Scorpio, house 10 | Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 7 | Venus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 7 | Sun | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Capricorn | Saturn in Gemini, house 5 | Mercury | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Jim
James Tate was born on December 8, 1943 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Melbourne, at 28.1°N, nothing below −61.9° declination ever rises, which keeps Acrux permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Jim’s cards
Computed from December 8, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44301 (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 Elektra Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jim Morrison 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 Jim Morrison.
Quick answers about Jim Morrison’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jim Morrison?
- Jim Morrison was a Sagittarius: born December 8, 1943, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius at the documented birth time.
- What was Jim Morrison's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 8, 1943 birth.
- What time was Jim Morrison born?
- 11:55 local time in Melbourne, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Jim Morrison's rising sign?
- Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 11:55 birth time in Melbourne, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Jim Morrison's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jim Morrison's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 15°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jim Morrison's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 22°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jim Morrison's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Moon, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
