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Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson (born June 12, 1962, Edmonton, Canada, 02:49), aged 64, is a Canadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere activist. Peterson is best known for Maps of Meaning, Beyond Order and 12 Rules for Life.

Jordan Peterson’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

Your match with Jordan

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Jordan Peterson’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Seeker

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#131

US rank in 2025

~536,795

Americans share it since 1880

1990

its peak year

In 1962, 183 American boys were registered Jordan — 579th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jordan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

5

Soul Urge · freedom

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Jordan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1962, 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 Jordan apart

George H. W. Bush (1924) and Anne Frank (1929) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
Canada
Languages
English

What the chart says

Jordan, according to the stars

Core essence

Jordan is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Jordan needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Jordan cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Jordan needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Jordan wants to be loved

Jordan wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Jordan gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Jordan creates

How Jordan makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Jordan creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Jordan is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Jordan is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Jordan 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 Jordan's birth date. Working below.

Where Jordan sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jordan

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jordan

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Jordan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jordan

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

PracticalVisionary
Jordan

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jordan

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

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Jordan’s birth-sky starFawarisblue-white · CygnusFawaris, in Cygnus. A blue-white star, 81.4° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Fawaris →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 14.1° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Edmonton at 02:49, Jordan Peterson’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Edmonton that night

Computed for 53.53°N, at the documented birth time.

Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Edmonton at the birth hour, 81.4° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 53.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Edmonton at all: they sit past the −36.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 70% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Edmonton, Canada
Lives in
Toronto · Fairview

Wikidata records Toronto and Fairview as Jordan Peterson's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

Against Edmonton, Shared Places reads Toronto as mixed for this chart: 51 of 100, 90th of 160 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Anchorage, United States, 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 Jordan'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 巳

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifestor, profile 5/1

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

60 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · 2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Saturn

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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Jordan Peterson in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Four conversations, one person.

Jordan Peterson's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time.

What Gemini means →

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Jordan Peterson was born on June 12, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Jordan Peterson's birth date, June 12, 1962, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Jordan’s chart

Jordan’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.1° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.3° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.4° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 0.9° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.9° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.3° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.4° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.5° orbSun in Gemini · 20°57′ · house 2☉20°Moon in Libra · 14°23′ · house 6☽14°Mercury in Gemini · 13°29′ · house 2 · retrograde☿℞13°Venus in Cancer · 24°17′ · house 3♀24°Mars in Taurus · 10°42′ · house 1♂10°Jupiter in Pisces · 12°03′ · house 11♃12°Saturn in Aquarius · 11°02′ · house 10 · retrograde♄℞11°Uranus in Leo · 27°04′ · house 4♅27°Neptune in Scorpio · 11°08′ · house 7 · retrograde♆℞11°Pluto in Virgo · 7°40′ · house 5♇7°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCTau 23°35′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCSco 23°35′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCCap 22°13′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICCnc 22°13′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • SaturnsquareNeptuneseparating · 0.1° orb

    Jordan’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • MarssquareSaturnapplying · 0.3° orb

    Jordan’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • MarsoppositionNeptuneapplying · 0.4° orb

    Jordan’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • MoontrineMercuryseparating · 0.9° orb

  • JupitertrineNeptuneseparating · 0.9° orb

  • MarssextileJupiterapplying · 1.3° orb

  • MercurysquareJupiterapplying · 1.4° orb

  • MercurytrineSaturnapplying · 2.5° orb

  • MarstrinePlutoseparating · 3.0° orb

  • MoontrineSaturnseparating · 3.4° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 3.5° orb

  • JupiteroppositionPlutoseparating · 4.4° orb

  • MercurysquarePlutoapplying · 5.8° orb

  • SuntrineMoonapplying · 6.6° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 7.5° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 10°53′ · House 11

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 1°58′ · House 3

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 26°02′ · House 1

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 5°52′ · House 11

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°13′ · House 5

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Mars 0.2°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.9°
  • Eros square Uranus 1.0°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Ascendant 1.6°
  • Eros sextile Venus 1.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 1.8°
  • Eros conjunction Ascendant 2.4°
  • Chiron square Mercury 2.6°

Jordan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Libra; rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Moon, Mars

  3. 3. ♂ Mars6 pts

    angular in the first house; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Jordan’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Moon, Mercury, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mars, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Pluto, MercuryAn 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.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.0°
  • Venus semi-square Pluto 1.6°
  • Moon quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.4°

Jordan’s houses

Jordan’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1TaurusVenus in Cancer, house 3Marsself, body, how you arrive
2GeminiMercury in Gemini, house 2Sun, Mercurymoney, possessions, self-worth
3CancerMoon in Libra, house 6Venusmind, siblings, the local world
4LeoSun in Gemini, house 2Uranushome, family, roots
5VirgoMercury in Gemini, house 2Plutocreativity, romance, play
6LibraVenus in Cancer, house 3Moonwork, habits, health
7ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 5Neptunepartnership, marriage, open rivals
8SagittariusJupiter in Pisces, house 11emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CapricornSaturn in Aquarius, house 10emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AquariusUranus in Leo, house 4Saturncareer, reputation, public life
11PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 7Jupiterfriends, community, the future
12AriesMars in Taurus, house 1emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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  • Conor KennedyAmerican activist, eldest child of RFK Jr and Mary Richardson (1994)
  • Robert IrwinAustralian conservationist and wildlife photographer (born 2003)
Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Jordan’s cards

Computed from June 12, 1962. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

9 · Healer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Hour

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jordan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6276882 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jordan Peterson at Wikipedia, jordanbpeterson.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, 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 Jordan Peterson.

Quick answers about Jordan Peterson’s chart

How old is Jordan Peterson?
Jordan Peterson is 64 years old, born June 12, 1962 in Edmonton, Canada.
What zodiac sign is Jordan Peterson?
Jordan Peterson is a Gemini: born June 12, 1962, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time.
What is Jordan Peterson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 12, 1962 birth.
What time was Jordan Peterson born?
02:49 local time in Edmonton, Canada, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Jordan Peterson's rising sign?
Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 02:49 birth time in Edmonton, Canada (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Jordan Peterson's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Jordan Peterson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 10°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jordan Peterson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jordan Peterson's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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