Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette (born March 5, 1955, Greenfield, United States, 17:13), aged 71, is an American magician and actor (born 1955). Jillette's honours include Richard Dawkins Award and Emperor Has No Clothes Award.
Penn Jillette’s zodiac sign is Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
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Penn Jillette’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Penn in the U.S.?
#2706
US rank in 2025
~1,230
Americans share it since 1880
2014
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Penn’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Penn apart
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922) and Eva Mendes (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Penn, according to the stars
Core essence
Penn feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Penn is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Penn needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Penn needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Penn wants to be loved
Penn wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Penn be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Penn creates
How Penn makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Penn creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Penn 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Penn 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 Penn leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Penn 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 Penn's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
Penn Jillette's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Wood Goat
Wood GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
Penn Jillette was born on March 5, 1955, which falls in a Wood 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 1Goes first. Works it out.
Penn Jillette's birth date, March 5, 1955, 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 Penn’s chart
- One of the ten planets sits in angular houses in Penn Jillette's timed chart: Sun in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Penn Jillette's timed chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Penn Jillette combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Penn’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
JupitertrineSaturnseparating · 1.1° orb
Penn’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SaturntrineUranusapplying · 2.7° orb
Penn’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.8° orb
Penn’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
VenussquareNeptuneseparating · 3.3° orb
Penn’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MercurysquareSaturnapplying · 3.4° orb
Penn’s mind grinds against their discipline.
JupiterconjunctionUranusseparating · 3.8° orb
Penn’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
VenussquareMarsapplying · 4.0° orb
Penn’s affections grind against their drive.
SaturnsquarePlutoapplying · 4.0° orb
Penn’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
UranussquareNeptuneseparating · 4.0° orb
Penn’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SuntrineJupiterapplying · 5.5° orb
Penn’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 5.8° orb
Penn’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SuntrineSaturnapplying · 6.6° orb
Penn’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoonoppositionMercuryapplying · 6.8° orb
Penn’s feelings pull against their mind from across the wheel.
MercuryoppositionPlutoapplying · 7.3° orb
Penn’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
VenusoppositionUranusseparating · 7.3° orb
Penn’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
MarsoppositionNeptuneseparating · 7.3° orb
Penn’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Penn’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 2°59′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Penn making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 11°33′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Penn caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosPisces 19°52′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Penn is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 19°09′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Penn is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 29°23′ · House 3
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Penn is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.2°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 0.9°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.4°
- Chiron conjunction Venus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.9°
- Ceres trine Ascendant 2.1°
- Chiron square Mars 2.3°
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°).
Penn’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Ascendant, Virgo; 3 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Penn is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Penn’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Grand trine · Sun, Jupiter, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Neptune · Venus, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Venus · Mars, Neptune, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
Penn’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 | Virgo | Mercury in Aquarius, house 6 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 6 | Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 12 | Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Cancer, house 11 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Scorpio, house 3 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Cancer, house 11 | Mercury, Venus | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 2 | Sun | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Taurus, house 9 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 6 | Mars | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Aquarius, house 6 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 12 | Jupiter, Uranus | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Pisces, house 7 | Moon, Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Penn’s cards
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♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Penn’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4129653, 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 Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Penn Jillette’s chart
- How old is Penn Jillette?
- Penn Jillette is 71 years old, born March 5, 1955 in Greenfield, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Penn Jillette?
- Penn Jillette is a Pisces: born March 5, 1955, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Goat.
- What is Penn Jillette's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 5, 1955 birth.
- What time was Penn Jillette born?
- 17:13 local time in Greenfield, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Penn Jillette's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 17:13 birth time in Greenfield, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Penn Jillette's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the March 5, 1955 birth date.
- What is Penn Jillette's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 2°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 5, 1955 birth time.
- Where is Penn Jillette's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 29°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Penn Jillette's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon, Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
