Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones (born March 14, 1933, South Side, United States; died 2024), was an American record producer and composer. Jones's honours include Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo, Kennedy Center Honors and Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
Quincy Jones’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Quincy
Quincy Jones’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Quincy in the U.S.?
#654
US rank in 2025
~33,207
Americans share it since 1880
1977
its peak year
Quincy ranked 1,141st in 1933, the year of this birth, with 34 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Quincy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
5
Soul Urge · freedom
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on Q (8) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Quincy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1933, 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 Quincy apart
Quincy Jones took the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1986, at 53.
Garfield High School and Berklee College of Music shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1951, at 18.
Cause of death is recorded as pancreatic cancer; the grave is at Hillside Memorial Park.
On the family side, Quincy Jones was born to Sarah Frances Wells and Quincy Delight Jones, married Jeri Caldwell and Ulla Andersson and raised 5 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Quincy Jones under African-American film score composers, American bossa nova musicians and ABC Records artists.
The same date carries Michael Caine. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Garfield High School and Berklee College of Music
- Instruments
- trumpet
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2013), MusiCares Person of the Year (1996) and NEA Jazz Masters (2008)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media and Grammy Award for Best R&B Song
- Working from
- 1951
- Cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- Buried at
- Hillside Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 73
What the chart says
Quincy, according to the stars
Core essence
Quincy feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Quincy 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.
How Quincy wants to be loved
Quincy wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Quincy, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Quincy creates
How Quincy 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. Quincy 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: Quincy is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Quincy is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Quincy channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Quincy's birth date. Working below.
Where Quincy sits
Six lines
Quincy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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.
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 Quincy Jones
Three stars chosen from the real sky above South Side 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 South Side that night
Computed for 41.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over South Side at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 41.8°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 South Side at all: they sit past the −48.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 33° below the horizon, Moon down and 88% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- South Side, United States
The death is recorded at Bel Air, Los Angeles in 2024.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Quincy Jones: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Quincy's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · Mars retrograde
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 →The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Quincy Jones's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 14, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Quincy Jones was born on March 14, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Quincy Jones's birth date, March 14, 1933, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Quincy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Quincy Jones' date-only chart is Uranus square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Quincy Jones combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Quincy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableUranussquarePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb
Quincy’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrinePluto1.9° to 2.9° orb
Quincy’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune2.3° to 2.6° orb
Quincy’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter2.9° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune5.0° to 6.3° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter5.5° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 14.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 2.7° to 17.1° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileSaturnorb from 4.9° to 5.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Quincy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 24°30′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 10°01′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 1°15′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 29°27′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Sun 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.1°
Quincy’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune
Configurations in Quincy’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.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.7°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
Quincy’s family here
One relative of Quincy Jones also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Quincy
Michael Caine was born on March 14, 1933 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from South Side, at 41.8°N, nothing below −48.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Quincy
Other composers
- Jerry Bock1928
- Philip Glass1937
- Sonny Rollins1930
- Bernard Rands1934
- Dominick Argento1927
- Merle Haggard1937
Born in United States
- Ben BovaAmerican writer
- Steven WeinbergAmerican theoretical physicist
- Walter PincusAmerican journalist
- Jayne MansfieldAmerican actress
- Sylvia PlathAmerican poet and writer
- Gene WilderAmerican actor
More charts like Quincy’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Yemi AladeNigerian singer and songwriter
- Joe AlwynEnglish actor
- Rob KardashianAmerican television personality and businessman
Born in Rooster years
- Catherine Zeta-JonesBritish actress
- Daniel Day-LewisBritish actor
- James BrownAmerican musician
Also born on March 14
- Albert Einstein1879
- Aamir Khan1965
- Stephen Curry1988
- Simone Biles1997
- Sasha Grey1988
- Ansel Elgort1994
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Samuel Flagg BemisAmerican historian
- Robert D. McFaddenAmerican journalist
- Phyllis McGinleyAmerican writer and poet
Other Pisces Rooster charts
- Kim RaverAmerican actress and producer
- Miles CatonAmerican musician
- Noah JupeBritish actor
- Linda CaicedoColombian footballer (born 2005)
Other Steadfast Healers
- Manning MarableAmerican professor of public affairs and African American studies at Columbia University and biographer
- Stanley KunitzAmerican poet
- Jack FullerAmerican journalist
- Charlie RossAmerican journalist
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Jamal CainAmerican basketball player
- Toumani CamaraBelgian basketball player (born 2000)
- Tyler KolekAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Quincy’s cards
Computed from March 14, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Quincy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193645 (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 Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Quincy Jones.
Quick answers about Quincy Jones’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Quincy Jones?
- Quincy Jones was a Pisces: born March 14, 1933, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Quincy Jones's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 14, 1933 birth.
- How tall was Quincy Jones?
- Quincy Jones was 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Quincy Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Quincy Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Quincy Jones's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Quincy Jones's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
