Justin Hamm
Justin Hamm (born May 3, 1980, Bloomington, United States), aged 46, is an American poet. Hamm has served as poet laureate.
Justin Hamm’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Justin
Justin Hamm’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Justin in the U.S.?
#233
US rank in 2025
~794,273
Americans share it since 1880
1988
its peak year
The SSA recorded 26,763 American boys and 161 girls named Justin in 1980: 13th among boys and 930th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Justin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Justin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
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 1980, 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 Justin apart
Justin Hamm was taught at MacMurray College and Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Golda Meir (1898) and James Brown (1933) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- MacMurray College and Southern Illinois University Carbondale
What the chart says
Justin, according to the stars
Core essence
Justin is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Justin is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Justin 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 Justin 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 Justin wants to be loved
Justin 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 Justin like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Justin creates
How Justin makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Justin creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Justin 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. Justin 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.
Computed from Justin's birth date. Working below.
Where Justin sits
Six lines
Justin’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Justin Hamm
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bloomington 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 Bloomington that night
Computed for 40.48°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Bloomington at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.0° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
Bloomington sits at 40.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Bloomington on any night.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 86% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 11° down.
How unusual Justin's chart is
Chart pattern score
54 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Saturn · 2 planets 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 →Justin Hamm at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Justin Hamm's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 3, 1980, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyWit is the tool.
Justin Hamm was born on May 3, 1980, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Justin Hamm's birth date, May 3, 1980, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Justin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Justin Hamm's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Jupiter, 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: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Justin Hamm combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Justin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° 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
stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 6.5° orb
Justin’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter0.3° to 0.6° orb
Justin’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineJupiter1.2° to 3.1° orb
Justin’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineMars1.7° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.6° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.5° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.4° to 5.0° orb
stableVenussextileMars4.5° to 4.9° orb
stableVenustrinePluto5.1° to 5.8° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.7° to 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Justin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 13°35′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 21°30′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 24°15′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 3°14′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 3°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Sun 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.9°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.0°
- Eros opposition Neptune 2.0°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 2.5°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.9°
Justin’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Justin’s chart
T-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.
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.2°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
More people like Justin
Other poets
- Carl Lewis1961
- Henry S. Taylor1942
- Gwyn Thomas1936
- Arlo Parks2000
- Joseph Bathanti1953
- Stephen Dunn1939
Born in United States
- Tony RomoAmerican football player
- Pauly DAmerican DJ and television personality
- Chelsea ClintonAmerican author and global health advocate
- Diem BrownAmerican television personality; reality TV star
- Bijou PhillipsAmerican actress (born 1980)
- Jessica SimpsonAmerican singer and actress
More charts like Justin’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Crispin GloverAmerican actor
- Fana MokoenaSouth African actor and politician
- James MasonBritish actor
Born in Monkey years
- Elijah WoodAmerican actor
- Diana RossAmerican singer and actress
- Kristen BellAmerican actress
Also born on May 3
- Golda Meir1898
- James Brown1933
- Steven Weinberg1933
- Christina Hendricks1975
- Rachel Zegler2001
- Genevieve Nnaji1979
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Rosario DawsonAmerican actress (born 1979)
- Hugh DancyEnglish actor (born 1975)
- Gabby DouglasAmerican gymnast
Other Taurus Monkey charts
- John Paulpope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author
- Traci LordsAmerican pornographic actress
- Michael SmithCanadian Nobel laureate in chemistry
- Bertrand RussellBritish philosopher and logician
Other Radiant Scholars
- Jesse OwensAmerican track and field athlete
- Sadio ManéSenegalese footballer
- Kimi RäikkönenFinnish racing driver
- Cillian MurphyIrish actor
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Nikki BellaAmerican professional wrestler (born 1983)
- Ben Higginsreality television star
- Toni GarrnGerman model
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Justin’s cards
Computed from May 3, 1980. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Justin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q141175223 (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 Nbf2926, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Justin Hamm at justinhamm.net.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Justin Hamm.
Quick answers about Justin Hamm’s chart
- How old is Justin Hamm?
- Justin Hamm is 46 years old, born May 3, 1980 in Bloomington, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Justin Hamm?
- Justin Hamm is a Taurus: born May 3, 1980, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Justin Hamm's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 3, 1980 birth.
- What is Justin Hamm's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Justin Hamm's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Justin Hamm's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Justin Hamm's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
