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O. J. Simpson

O. J. Simpson (born Orenthal James Simpson; July 9, 1947, San Francisco, United States, 08:08; died 2024), was an American football player and actor. Simpson played for Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers and USC Trojans football. Simpson's honours include Pro Football Hall of Fame and Associated Press Athlete of the Year.

O. J. Simpson’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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O. J. Simpson’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Strategist

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

What O. J. Simpson’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Orenthal James Simpson, not the name they published under.

3

Expression · expression and voice

6

Soul Urge · being needed

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on O (6) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

O. J. Simpson’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 O. J. Simpson apart

Tom Hanks (1956) and Courtney Love (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Sport
athletics
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

O. J. Simpson, according to the stars

Core essence

O. J. Simpson feels the room before entering it. The core of O. J. Simpson is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for O. J. Simpson, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, O. J. Simpson is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What O. J. Simpson needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How O. J. Simpson wants to be loved

O. J. Simpson 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. O. J. Simpson gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How O. J. Simpson creates

How O. J. Simpson 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. O. J. Simpson 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: O. J. Simpson is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. O. J. Simpson 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 O. J. Simpson 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. O. J. Simpson scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from O. J. Simpson's birth date. Working below.

Where O. J. Simpson sits

Six lines

O. J. Simpson’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
O. J. Simpson

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
O. J. Simpson

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

PrivateExpressive
O. J. Simpson

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
O. J. Simpson

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

PracticalVisionary
O. J. Simpson

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
O. J. Simpson

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

Dedicate a star to O. J. Simpson

Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Francisco on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

O. J. Simpson’s birth-sky starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 87° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 65.1° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above San Francisco at 08:08, O. J. Simpson’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over San Francisco that night

Computed for 37.77°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at San Francisco was Algol, in Perseus, 87.0° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from San Francisco at all: they sit past the −52.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun -36° below the horizon, Moon up and 68% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born as
Orenthal James Simpson
Known as
O. J. Simpson
Born in
San Francisco, United States

The death is recorded at Las Vegas, Clark County in 2024.

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What O.'s birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Charmer 貪狼 in 寅

Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Wealth

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Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4

Emotional authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Cancer · No Earth planets

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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Cancer Sun

Moody, and loyal past reason.

O. J. Simpson's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time.

What Cancer means →

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

O. J. Simpson was born on July 9, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

O. J. Simpson's birth date, July 9, 1947, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in O. J. Simpson’s chart

O. J. Simpson’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Mercury · Trine, 0.9° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.9° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.2° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.1° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.2° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3° orbSaturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4° orbSun in Cancer · 16°36′ · house 12☉16°Moon in Pisces · 25°36′ · house 8☽25°Mercury in Cancer · 24°39′ · house 12 · retrograde☿℞24°Venus in Cancer · 1°21′ · house 12♀1°Mars in Gemini · 6°01′ · house 11♂6°Jupiter in Scorpio · 17°45′ · house 4 · retrograde♃℞17°Saturn in Leo · 9°01′ · house 1♄9°Uranus in Gemini · 23°26′ · house 11♅23°Neptune in Libra · 8°08′ · house 3♆8°Pluto in Leo · 12°10′ · house 1♇12°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLeo 24°37′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAqr 24°37′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCTau 18°47′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSco 18°47′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • MoontrineMercuryseparating · 0.9° orb

    O. J. Simpson’s feelings flow straight into their mind.

  • SaturnsextileNeptuneseparating · 0.9° orb

    O. J. Simpson’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • SuntrineJupiterapplying · 1.2° orb

    O. J. Simpson’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • MarstrineNeptuneapplying · 2.1° orb

  • MoonsquareUranusseparating · 2.2° orb

  • MarssextileSaturnapplying · 3.0° orb

  • SaturnconjunctionPlutoapplying · 3.2° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.0° orb

  • JupitersquarePlutoapplying · 5.6° orb

  • MoonsquareVenusapplying · 5.8° orb

  • VenussquareNeptuneapplying · 6.8° orb

  • MercurytrineJupiterapplying · 6.9° orb

  • VenusconjunctionUranusseparating · 7.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

O. J. Simpson’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 2°22′ · House 4

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 0°41′ · House 10

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 3°42′ · House 5

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 12°57′ · House 11

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 17°53′ · House 6

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 0.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.8°
  • Chiron trine Venus 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.3°
  • Eros opposition Mars 2.3°

O. J. Simpson’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun6 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in O. J. Simpson’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.4°
  • Mercury quintile Neptune 1.5°
  • Moon sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.6°
  • Moon sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°

O. J. Simpson’s houses

O. J. Simpson’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LeoSun in Cancer, house 12Saturn, Plutoself, body, how you arrive
2VirgoMercury in Cancer, house 12emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3LibraVenus in Cancer, house 12Neptunemind, siblings, the local world
4ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 1Jupiterhome, family, roots
5SagittariusJupiter in Scorpio, house 4emptycreativity, romance, play
6CapricornSaturn in Leo, house 1emptywork, habits, health
7AquariusUranus in Gemini, house 11emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 3Moonshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AriesMars in Gemini, house 11emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10TaurusVenus in Cancer, house 12emptycareer, reputation, public life
11GeminiMercury in Cancer, house 12Mars, Uranusfriends, community, the future
12CancerMoon in Pisces, house 8Sun, Mercury, Venusthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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O. J. Simpson’s cards

Computed from July 9, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Strategist

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

O. J. Simpson’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44473 (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 Gerald Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about O. J. Simpson’s chart

What zodiac sign was O. J. Simpson?
O. J. Simpson was a Cancer: born July 9, 1947, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time.
What was O. J. Simpson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 9, 1947 birth.
What time was O. J. Simpson born?
08:08 local time in San Francisco, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was O. J. Simpson's rising sign?
Leo rising, calculated from the documented 08:08 birth time in San Francisco, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall was O. J. Simpson?
O. J. Simpson was 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was O. J. Simpson's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was O. J. Simpson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 2°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was O. J. Simpson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 17°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was O. J. Simpson's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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