Jim Carrey's Birth Chart
Jim Carrey was born on January 17, 1962 at 02:30 in Newmarket, Canada. The chart has the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Gemini, with Scorpio rising.
| Born | January 17, 1962 |
| Time | 02:30 |
| Place | Newmarket, Canada |
Jim Carrey's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Capricorn: Older Than Your Years
You become yourself through what you have built and what you have carried. Identity here is earned rather than given, and you measure yourself against a standard that was serious from a young age. People experience you as capable, dry and older than your years, and they rarely see the effort or the fear of falling short underneath. Authority sits on you and sometimes heavily. Your vitality grows with age and with responsibility, and you are often more at ease at fifty than you were at twenty.
Moon in Gemini: Talking It Through
Your feelings become real when they are put into words, so you talk, text and narrate your way through a mood rather than sitting inside it. Comfort is a conversation, a new fact, a change of scene. Needs shift quickly and you can hold two at once without strain. Your body runs on nervous energy and reads boredom as a kind of ache. Others find you easy to be around and hard to pin down, because the mood they met an hour ago has already been replaced.
Scorpio rising: Taking Your Measure
You arrive watching, and people feel watched. Strangers meet a still body, a steady gaze, and a face that gives nothing until it has taken your measure, and some of them are drawn in while others step back. People tell you their secrets and assume you have worse ones of your own. Trust is given slowly and withdrawn completely, and a betrayal years old still sits in your posture when that person walks in. Your intensity reads as threat or magnetism depending on the day.
Planet positions in Jim Carrey's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 26°43′ |
| Moon | Gemini | 17°12′ |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 14°44′ |
| Venus | Capricorn | 24°17′ |
| Mars | Capricorn | 17°55′ |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 14°11′ |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 1°35′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Leo | 29°46′ |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 13°17′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Virgo | 9°48′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Leo | 18°10′ |
| Chiron | Pisces | 3°54′ |
| Ascendant | Scorpio | 15°12′ |
| Midheaven | Leo | 27°04′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 1, Earth 4, Air 4, Water 1. By modality: Cardinal 3, Fixed 5, Mutable 2.
A fixed emphasis
A fixed emphasis makes you steady and determined: you sustain, persist, and hold your ground, sometimes to the point of stubbornness.
The tightest aspects in Jim Carrey's chart
- Mercury conjunct Jupiter, orb 0°33′
- Jupiter square Neptune, orb 0°54′
- Moon sextile North Node, orb 0°58′
- Mercury square Neptune, orb 1°27′
- Sun conjunct Venus, orb 2°25′
- Moon trine Mercury, orb 2°28′
- Moon trine Jupiter, orb 3°01′
- Mercury opposite North Node, orb 3°26′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mercury conjunct Jupiter: Big Idea Machine
Every small thought you have gets inflated to full theory size before it leaves your head. Mind and expansion sit in one place here, so a fact becomes a story, a plan becomes a philosophy, and a two-minute answer becomes a lecture people actually enjoy. The cost is proportion: detail work and small edits get skipped because the big version is more fun.
Jupiter square Neptune: Pressure Against Fog
Growth keeps trying to nail down something that refuses to hold shape. That is the friction: the appetite for more, further, truer runs straight into a sense of the divine that will not be measured, and the result can be belief that outruns evidence. When the ambiguous side is allowed to stay ambiguous, the expansive side finally builds something real instead of inflating.
Moon sextile North Node: Comfort Points Forward
There is a working link here between what soothes you and where you are supposed to be heading. Your gut reads the growth direction accurately, so when you sit with a feeling long enough it tends to point somewhere new rather than back home. The catch is that this pair cooperates on request, not by default, and stays quiet in people who never consult their own mood.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Jim Carrey's recorded date, time and place of birth. The rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses depend on the birth time, so they are only as reliable as the time on record. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.