Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons (born October 4, 1957, Queens, United States), aged 69, is an American entrepreneur and record executive. Simmons's honours include James Parks Morton Interfaith Award.
Russell Simmons’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Rooster, with 
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Russell Simmons’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Russell in the U.S.?
#345
US rank in 2025
~361,476
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Russell’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Russell apart
Susan Sarandon (1946) and Vitaly Ginzburg (1916) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Russell, according to the stars
Core essence
Russell makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Russell is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Russell wants to be loved
Russell wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Russell even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Russell creates
How Russell 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. Russell 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: Russell 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Russell 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Russell fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Russell's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Russell sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Russell Simmons's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 4, 1957, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Russell Simmons was born on October 4, 1957, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Russell Simmons's birth date, October 4, 1957, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Russell’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Russell Simmons' date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Russell Simmons combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Russell’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Russell Simmons, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Russell’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMoonsquareVenus0.0° to 6.5° orb
Russell’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.1° orb
Russell’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.4° to 1.2° orb
Russell’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.8° to 1.7° orb
Russell’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrineUranus0.9° orb
Russell’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileUranus1.0° to 1.2° orb
Russell’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.0° to 2.1° orb
Russell’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileSaturn2.8° to 3.4° orb
Russell’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.9° to 3.4° orb
Russell’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssextileUranus3.7° to 4.3° orb
Russell’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMars4.2° to 4.5° orb
Russell’s core identity and drive act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Russell’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 12°25′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Russell making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCancer 21°10′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Russell is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosLibra 21°26′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Russell is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 13°57′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Russell feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Russell is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.5°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.6°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.0°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 2.5°
- Ceres trine Venus 2.6°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 2.8°
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°).
Russell’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Russell is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Russell’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mars, JupiterThree 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 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Russell Simmons, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Russell’s family here
One relative of Russell Simmons also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Russell’s cards
Every card is computed from October 4, 1957, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Russell Simmons, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Russell’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q962378, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Russell Simmons at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Russell Simmons.
Quick answers about Russell Simmons’s chart
- How old is Russell Simmons?
- Russell Simmons is 69 years old, born October 4, 1957 in Queens, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Russell Simmons?
- Russell Simmons is a Libra: born October 4, 1957, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster.
- What is Russell Simmons's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 4, 1957 birth.
- What time was Russell Simmons born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Russell Simmons's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the October 4, 1957 birth date.
- What is Russell Simmons's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 4, 1957 birth date.
- Where is Russell Simmons's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Russell Simmons's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
