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Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs (born Abdul Lateef Jandali; February 24, 1955, San Francisco, United States, 19:15; died 2011), was an American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. Jobs is best remembered for NeXT Computer, NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X 10.0. Jobs's honours include National Inventors Hall of Fame, Grammy Trustees Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Steve Jobs’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Steve Jobs’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Storyteller

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

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

How common is the name Steve in the U.S.?

#1617

US rank in 2025

~242,131

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1955, Steve came 72nd among boys and 2,953rd among girls, carried by 5,509 American boys and 16 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Steve’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Abdul Lateef Jandali, not the name they published under.

5

Expression · versatility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on A (1) 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

Steve’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Rose-gold · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, 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 Steve apart

What keeps Steve Jobs in print: iMac, iPhone and iPod.

The classrooms behind this chart: Homestead High School and Reed College.

The working life starts in 1974, at 19.

Cause of death is recorded as pancreatic cancer; the grave is at Alta Mesa Memorial Park.

Steve Jobs was born to Joanne Carole Schieble Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali, married Laurene Powell Jobs and raised 4 children.

Brian Schmidt (1967) and Lleyton Hewitt (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
iMac, iPhone and iPod
Educated at
Homestead High School, Reed College and De Anza College
Awards
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2022), National Inventors Hall of Fame (2012) and National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1985)
Working from
1974
Cause of death
pancreatic cancer
Buried at
Alta Mesa Memorial Park
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
231

What the chart says

Steve, according to the stars

Core essence

Steve feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Steve 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, Steve runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Steve needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Steve wants to be loved

Steve wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Steve you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Steve creates

How Steve 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. Steve 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: Steve 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. Steve 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 Steve leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Steve gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Steve's birth date. Working below.

Where Steve sits

Six lines

Steve’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Steve

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Steve

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

PrivateExpressive
Steve

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Steve

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Steve

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Steve

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 Steve Jobs

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Steve’s birth-sky starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 81.7° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 45.4° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

Read from the sky above San Francisco at 19:15, Steve Jobs’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 Capella, in Auriga, 81.7° up.

Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

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.

The Moon, 8% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 15° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Abdul Lateef Jandali
Known as
Steve Jobs
Born in
San Francisco, United States
Lived in
Mountain View

Wikidata records Mountain View as Steve Jobs's home, against San Francisco as the birthplace.

The death is recorded at Palo Alto, Santa Clara County in 2011.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Steve's birth time unlocks

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

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Enforcer 廉貞, The Charmer 貪狼 in 巳

Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Wealth

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 6/3

Emotional authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

65 / 100 · Unusual

2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Uranus · 1 planet 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Pisces Sun

Feels it all, owns none of it.

Steve Jobs's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time.

What Pisces means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 1

Goes first. Works it out.

Steve Jobs's birth date, February 24, 1955, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Steve’s chart

Steve’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 0.7° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.7° orbMars faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 3° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.6° orbSun in Pisces · 5°45′ · house 7☉5°Moon in Aries · 7°45′ · house 8☽7°Mercury in Aquarius · 14°22′ · house 6☿14°Venus in Capricorn · 21°10′ · house 5♀21°Mars in Aries · 29°05′ · house 8♂29°Jupiter in Cancer · 20°30′ · house 11 · retrograde♃℞20°Saturn in Scorpio · 21°10′ · house 3♄21°Uranus in Cancer · 24°08′ · house 11 · retrograde♅℞24°Neptune in Libra · 28°03′ · house 2 · retrograde♆℞28°Pluto in Leo · 25°19′ · house 12 · retrograde♇℞25°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCVir 22°17′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCPsc 22°17′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCGem 21°19′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSgr 21°19′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • VenussextileSaturnseparating · 0.0° orb

    Steve’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • VenusoppositionJupiterseparating · 0.7° orb

    Steve’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • JupitertrineSaturnseparating · 0.7° orb

    Steve’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • MarsoppositionNeptuneseparating · 1.0° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.7° orb

  • VenusoppositionUranusapplying · 3.0° orb

  • SaturntrineUranusapplying · 3.0° orb

  • JupiterconjunctionUranusseparating · 3.6° orb

  • MarstrinePlutoseparating · 3.8° orb

  • UranussquareNeptuneseparating · 3.9° orb

  • SaturnsquarePlutoapplying · 4.2° orb

  • MarssquareUranusseparating · 5.0° orb

  • MercurysquareSaturnapplying · 6.8° orb

  • VenussquareNeptuneapplying · 6.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Steve’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 2°20′ · House 6

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 8°42′ · House 5

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 14°09′ · House 7

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 19°52′ · House 2

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 28°25′ · House 3

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Jupiter 0.6°
  • Ceres square Moon 0.9°
  • Hygiea square Venus 1.3°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 2.9°

Steve’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune8 pts

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

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    disposes Venus; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Steve’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Mars, Neptune, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
  • Moon sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.6°
  • Sun semi-sextile Moon 2.0°

Steve’s houses

Steve’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1VirgoMercury in Aquarius, house 6emptyself, body, how you arrive
2LibraVenus in Capricorn, house 5Neptunemoney, possessions, self-worth
3ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 12Saturnmind, siblings, the local world
4SagittariusJupiter in Cancer, house 11emptyhome, family, roots
5CapricornSaturn in Scorpio, house 3Venuscreativity, romance, play
6AquariusUranus in Cancer, house 11Mercurywork, habits, health
7PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 2Sunpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AriesMars in Aries, house 8Moon, Marsshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9TaurusVenus in Capricorn, house 5emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10GeminiMercury in Aquarius, house 6emptycareer, reputation, public life
11CancerMoon in Aries, house 8Jupiter, Uranusfriends, community, the future
12LeoSun in Pisces, house 7Plutothe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13

Steve’s cards

Computed from February 24, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Storyteller

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Steve’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19837 (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 MetalGearLiquid, based on File:Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg made by Matt Yohe, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Steve Jobs at Wikipedia, apple.com, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Steve Jobs.

Quick answers about Steve Jobs’s chart

What zodiac sign was Steve Jobs?
Steve Jobs was a Pisces: born February 24, 1955, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time.
What was Steve Jobs's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 24, 1955 birth.
What time was Steve Jobs born?
19:15 local time in San Francisco, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Steve Jobs's rising sign?
Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 19:15 birth time in San Francisco, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Steve Jobs's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Steve Jobs's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 2°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Steve Jobs's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 28°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Steve Jobs's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Moon sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Moon; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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