Jim Parsons
Jim Parsons (born James Joseph Parsons; March 24, 1973, Houston, Texas, United States), aged 53, is an American actor. Parsons is best known for Hidden Figures, The Normal Heart and The Boys in the Band. Parsons's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and Theatre World Award.
Jim Parsons’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Jim
Jim Parsons’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
In 1973, 585 American boys and 5 girls were registered Jim — 302nd among boys and 8,948th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jim’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name James Joseph Parsons, not the name they published under.
7
Expression · depth and research
6
Soul Urge · being needed
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (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
Jim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink
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 1973, 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
The Big Bang Theory, The Boys in the Band and The Normal Heart. That is the work the name is attached to.
Jim Parsons was taught at Klein Oak High School and University of Houston.
Jim Parsons was 26 when the work began in 1999.
On Wikipedia the categories read Actors from Spring, Texas, LGBTQ television producers and GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award.
Jessica Chastain (1977) and Steve Ballmer (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- The Big Bang Theory, The Boys in the Band and The Normal Heart
- Educated at
- Klein Oak High School, University of Houston and University of San Diego
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (2011), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (2014) and Theatre World Award (2011)
- Working from
- 1999
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 74
What the chart says
Jim, according to the stars
Core essence
Jim leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Jim is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Jim is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Jim needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Jim creates
How Jim makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Jim creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Jim 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 11 is the visionary, a master number. Jim is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Jim does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Jim Parsons
Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Joseph Medical Center 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 St. Joseph Medical Center that night
Computed for 29.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Asellus Australis stood nearest the zenith over St. Joseph Medical Center at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.4° above the horizon in Cancer.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
St. Joseph Medical Center sits at 29.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −60.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman were never visible from St. Joseph Medical Center on any night.
The Moon, 67% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- James Joseph Parsons
- Known as
- Jim Parsons
- Born in
- St. Joseph Medical Center, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles · New York City
Wikidata records Los Angeles and New York City as Jim Parsons's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jim Parsons: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Jim's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Jim Parsons's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 24, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Jim Parsons was born on March 24, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Jim Parsons's birth date, March 24, 1973, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Jim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jim Parsons' date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Jim Parsons combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Jim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Sagittarius 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
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.2° to 0.5° orb
Jim’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableSunoppositionPluto0.4° to 1.4° orb
Jim’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussextileMars1.1° to 1.6° orb
Jim’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.4° to 2.2° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.6° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto2.6° to 2.8° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.0° to 4.2° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.2° to 4.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.3° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.7° to 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 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, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 16°02′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 16°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 25°22′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 8°05′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 13°58′ (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 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.1°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.4°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 1.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 2.4°
Jim’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 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.
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 0.6°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.8°
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Fellow Aries suns
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- Quan HongchanChinese diver
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Born in Ox years
- Guus TilDutch association football player (born 1997)
- Jean-Philippe MatetaFrench footballer (born 1997)
- Salih ÖzcanTurkish-German association football player (born 1998)
Also born on March 24
- Jessica Chastain1977
- Steve Ballmer1956
- Alyson Hannigan1974
- Yanis Varoufakis1961
- Shakib Al Hasan1987
- Nathalia Dill1986
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Terrence Shannon Jr.American basketball player (born 2000)
- Jakob PöltlAustrian basketball player (born 1995)
- Mikal BridgesAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
Other Aries Ox charts
- Horst Ludwig StörmerGerman physicist
- Eisaku SatōPrime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972
- Richard Adolf ZsigmondyAustrian chemist
- Gabriela MistralChilean poet, diplomat and educator
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- Trinity RodmanAmerican soccer player
- Gable StevesonAmerican wrestler (born 2000)
- Pablo Urdangarín y de BorbónSpanish aristocrat
- Nolan GouldAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Florence PughBritish actress
- Itamar FrancoBrazilian politician
- Mikey MadisonAmerican actress
From the journal: Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated · Is Western astrology outdated?
Jim’s cards
Computed from March 24, 1973. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The High PriestessAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190972 (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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jim Parsons at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Parsons.
Quick answers about Jim Parsons’s chart
- How old is Jim Parsons?
- Jim Parsons is 53 years old, born March 24, 1973 in Houston, Texas, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jim Parsons?
- Jim Parsons is an Aries: born March 24, 1973, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Jim Parsons's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 24, 1973 birth.
- How tall is Jim Parsons?
- Jim Parsons is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Jim Parsons's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jim Parsons's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jim Parsons's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jim Parsons's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
