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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Goat, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~153,938
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
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Jim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jim sits
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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.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Jim Morrison's Sun was in Sagittarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
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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
Jim’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercurysquareNeptuneapplying · 3.1° orb
Jim’s mind grinds against their imagination.
MarssextilePlutoapplying · 3.1° orb
Jim’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupitersextileSaturnseparating · 3.3° orb
Jim’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenussextileJupiterseparating · 3.4° orb
Jim’s affections open doors for their growth.
MercurytrineJupiterseparating · 3.9° orb
Jim’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SunoppositionMarsseparating · 4.0° orb
Jim’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.6° orb
Jim’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarsconjunctionUranusapplying · 5.2° orb
Jim’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
VenustrineSaturnseparating · 6.6° orb
Jim’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercuryoppositionSaturnseparating · 7.1° orb
Jim’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ ChironVirgo 15°19′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Jim turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 4°59′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Jim is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosSagittarius 17°28′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Jim attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaLibra 22°06′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Jim is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°03′ · House 7
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Jim is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- 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°
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°).
Jim’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Jim is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Jim’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
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.
- 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
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| 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 with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Jim’s cards
Every card is computed from December 8, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
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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 data comes from
Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44301, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Elektra Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jim Morrison 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat.
- 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 from the December 8, 1943 birth date.
- What was Jim Morrison's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 15°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 8, 1943 birth time.
- 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.
