Jim Carrey’s birth chart
Born 17 January 1962, in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, at 02:30 (Rodden A).
Capricorn Sun · Gemini Moon · Scorpio rising
Jim Carrey’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
17 January 1962 was a Wednesday: the day Jim Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. That makes Jim a Capricorn, with the Moon in Gemini and Scorpio rising. Jim turns 64 in 2026. The birth time, 02:30, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of A, which means it was given from memory by the person or someone close to them.
By element the count is four earth, four air, one fire and one water. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is three, five and two. Sun, Venus and Mars all fall in Capricorn. Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn all fall in Aquarius. Closest of the aspects is the conjunction between Mercury and Jupiter, 0.5° from exact. Two planets were retrograde: Uranus and Pluto. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 26 other people born on 17 January, among them Muhammad Ali, Betty White and Eartha Kitt. Wikidata links Jim with three people in the dataset: Renée Zellweger (listed as partners, 1999 to 2000), Laurie Holden (listed as partners, 2001 to 2004) and Lauren Holly (married in 1996, marriage ended in 1997).
Jim Carrey’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
26° Capricorn 42'
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Jim Carrey up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Gemini
17° Gemini 11'
The Moon in Gemini processes feeling by naming it. For Jim, talking, writing and switching perspective are likely ways to settle, and silence can make small worries loud. They probably need people who let them think out loud.
Rising sign
Scorpio
15° Scorpio 12'
Scorpio rising comes across as intense and self-contained. People tend to sense that there is more going on than Jim is saying; this rising sign keeps more back than it shows.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 02:30 on 17 January 1962, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 26° Capricorn 42' | House 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 17° Gemini 11' | House 8 |
| Mercury | 14° Aquarius 43' | House 3 |
| Venus | 24° Capricorn 17' | House 3 |
| Mars | 17° Capricorn 55' | House 2 |
| Jupiter | 14° Aquarius 10' | House 3 |
| Saturn | 1° Aquarius 35' | House 3 |
| Uranus | 29° Leo 46'℞ | House 10 |
| Neptune | 13° Scorpio 16' | House 12 |
| Pluto | 9° Virgo 48'℞ | House 10 |
| North Node | 18° Leo 09' | House 9 |
| South Node | 18° Aquarius 09' | House 3 |
Jim Carrey’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Jim Carrey’s private life.
Sun in Capricorn
26° Capricorn 42' · third house
purpose and vitality
With the Sun in Capricorn, Jim Carrey is likely to find purpose in building a reputation and a structure that will outlast them, with a vitality that is steady rather than showy. The trap can be measuring their worth by output alone. They may well work through tiredness instead of naming it, until someone else has to point it out.
What energises Jim is talking, writing and swapping ideas with whoever happens to be around that day. With the Sun in the third house, curiosity is not a side interest but close to the core of who they are, and a good conversation can change their whole mood.
Moon in Gemini
17° Gemini 11' · eighth house
needs and habits
The Moon in Gemini runs its daily habits on conversation and mental stimulation, and Jim is likely to settle by talking a worry through rather than sitting with it quietly. A day with no one to talk to can leave them restless. The habit is to message a friend the moment something comes to mind, before deciding what to think about it.
Jim probably feels things at a depth other people sometimes miss, and the Moon in the eighth house wants tested trust before anyone is allowed to see that undercurrent. When the guard does come down with someone, the bond is apt to change for good.
Mercury in Aquarius
14° Aquarius 43' · third house
mind and voice
In Jim's chart, Mercury in Aquarius describes thinking that is original and a step removed from convention, and communication that works best through ideas rather than small talk. The stubborn streak is holding a position out of principle after the evidence has moved on. In a group, this is the person who asks the question nobody else thought to ask.
The third house is Mercury's natural home, and words, ideas and quick exchanges come more easily to Jim than to most people. Someone with this placement is often the fastest talker or the sharpest writer in the room.
Venus in Capricorn
24° Capricorn 17' · third house
love and values
For Jim, Venus in Capricorn means loving in a measured, committed way and valuing stability, ambition and someone to build a life with. The trap is treating a relationship like a project to manage rather than let unfold. With this Venus, love comes out more easily as providing and planning than as words said out loud.
Venus in the third house puts Jim's charm into conversation, with a knack for saying a difficult thing so that it lands gently. Words are often one of the clearest ways of showing affection, sometimes clearer than gestures or gifts.
Mars in Capricorn
17° Capricorn 55' · second house
drive and anger
Mars in Capricorn acts with discipline and patience, playing a longer game than most, and in Jim's case its anger tends to be controlled, arriving as coldness rather than heat. The tendency is to go quiet and distant instead of saying what is wrong. A frustration is something to outwork rather than voice.
With Mars in the second house, Jim goes after what they want with visible drive, and a firm sense of their own worth fuels that determination. Patience with slow, gradual progress is unlikely to be their strong suit, and waiting around frustrates them quickly.
Jupiter in Aquarius
14° Aquarius 10' · third house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aquarius grows through community, ideas and causes bigger than one life. Jim may put so much trust in a theory or a group that its practical flaws are overlooked. Optimism about the future can make them a natural organiser of other people's efforts.
With Jupiter in the third house, Jim is curious by nature and enjoys learning new things, and their ideas spread easily, shared with contagious enthusiasm. Teaching suits them well, and they rarely hoard what they know for its own sake.
Saturn in Aquarius
1° Aquarius 35' · third house
discipline and doubt
With Saturn in Aquarius, Jim's discipline probably gathers around belonging to a group on their own terms; it is the placement of the one-time outsider. The doubt means holding back the stranger ideas until there is no risk of mockery. The outsider often ends up as a trusted voice in exactly the kind of community that once seemed unlikely to accept them.
In Jim's chart, Saturn sits in the third house, a placement associated with caution in speech: a sense of being unheard or over-careful with words, and a freedom to speak up that comes with deliberate practice. What they say often carries weight, because they choose their words with care.
Uranus in Leo
29° Leo 46' ℞ · tenth house
freedom, generational
Jim shares Uranus in Leo with a generation, one that redefines self-expression and individuality, often through forms of creativity and visibility that were not available before. Closer to home, it suggests being comfortable with being seen in ways older relatives find unfamiliar.
Jim's working life may look less linear than most, because they prefer work that lets them innovate to work that follows an established script. Uranus in the tenth house would rather be known for being different than for fitting an existing mould.
Neptune in Scorpio
13° Scorpio 16' · twelfth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Scorpio marks a long season that Jim shares with many people of a similar age. Its imagination is drawn to the hidden, the taboo and the transformative, with a wider cultural fascination for secrets and endings. In an individual that can be a pull towards mystery for its own sake.
The twelfth house is Neptune's natural home, and Jim's inner life is likely to be rich with imagination, intuition and a sense of connection to something larger than themselves. Neptune here makes solitude less about being alone and more about tuning in to what is already there.
Pluto in Virgo
9° Virgo 48' ℞ · tenth house
power, generational
Pluto in Virgo is shared by Jim and many people born in the same span of years. That generation lives through deep change in work, in how services are organised, and in daily life itself. In one person that can be intensity around control, order and how much any one system can carry.
Influence may matter more to Jim than surface status, and with Pluto in the tenth house, a working life that stops meaning something may well be reinvented. Pluto here is associated with caring more about public power than public popularity, two things that are easy to confuse.
Aspects in Jim Carrey’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Mercury conjunction Jupiter
0.5° separating
Jim Carrey's thinking is likely to be expansive and enthusiastic, connecting ideas across subjects other people keep separate. It makes for lively conversation, and the habit worth adding is checking the details behind a big idea before committing to it fully.
Jupiter square Neptune
0.9° separating
Jupiter square Neptune lets optimism drift into wishful thinking, and plans can end up built more on hope than on a clear reading of the situation. For Jim the answer may be to keep hoping and to pair that hope with an honest look at the details.
Mercury square Neptune
1.5° separating
Wishful assumptions, or a compelling but unverified story, can blur thinking when Mercury is square Neptune. What helps Jim is pairing imagination with a habit of checking the details before repeating the story as though it were settled fact.
Sun conjunction Venus
2.4° applying
Who Jim is and what they love are likely to be closely bound, so their identity has relationships and beauty at its centre rather than at its edge. People with the Sun conjunct Venus tend to give affection openly, and their sense of self can rise and fall a little with how appreciated they feel.
Moon trine Mercury
2.5° separating
Jim can probably explain what they feel almost as soon as they feel it, because feeling and thinking flow together easily here. A Moon-Mercury trine makes for a comforting voice in emotional moments, and people with it are often the ones others call first when something has gone wrong.
Moon trine Jupiter
3.0° separating
Feelings and optimism reinforce each other under a Moon-Jupiter trine, which gives Jim a buoyant emotional life that recovers well from setbacks. Time in Jim's company tends to comfort other people, even on days when little has been said.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Neptune sextile Pluto3.5°
- Mars sextile Neptune4.6°
- Sun conjunction Saturn4.9°
- Venus conjunction Mars6.4°
- Venus conjunction Saturn7.3°
- Moon square Pluto7.4°
- Sun conjunction Mars8.8°
Jim Carrey in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Capricorn Sun and Gemini Moon, like Jim Carrey
Also born on 17 January
Jim Carrey in the StarMap archive
Pages from the celebrity-homes site StarMap used to be, newest first.
- Actor and Comedian Jim Carrey’s Brentwood Estate · archived 2014
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (From memory). Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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