Daily news regularly puts the spotlight on all sorts of famous people. Astrology may also be considered as an interesting filter to better define their personality, and to guess whether the events they experience are confirmed by their planets' activities. Jim Carrey is indisputably one of the most important celebrities of the American and international cinema, although his destiny has never been linear.
James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian and writer. Known for his energetic slapstick performances, Carrey first gained recognition in 1990, after landing a regular role in the American sketch comedy television series In Living Color.
Let's delve into the astrological aspects that define Jim Carrey, examining his Sun sign, Moon sign, Ascendant, and other planetary placements to understand the unique tapestry of his character and life path.
The Big Three: Sun, Moon, and Ascendant
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Capricorn Sun: The Disciplined Achiever
Jim Carrey’s astrological sign is Capricorn. People born with a Capricorn Sun are stable and hardworking. If your sign is Capricorn or your Ascendant is Capricorn: you are serious, cold, disciplined, patient, focused, thoughtful, ambitious, indomitable, cautious, lucid, persistent, provident, steady, introverted, stern, wilful, hard-working, responsible, persevering, honest, realistic, loyal, reserved, resolute, moralistic, quiet, rigorous, attached and reliable.
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Your nature is thoughtful, stable, reserved and cautious towards all novelties. You feel fragile on the affective plane. Therefore, you protect yourself in a closed shell and you project an image of solidity and seriousness. But a volcano is dormant in your ivory tower... Beneath your apparent phlegm and your will to exhibit an even temper in all circumstances, there is an unfailing determination.
Capricorn is very structured. More than anyone, he remains his true self, loyal to his principles, his objectives and his projects. Tenacity is the strength of your sign. Never give up, maintain the same direction... All this suggests the junior or seasoned administrator, the person capable of handling the most diverse responsibilities, provided he could take the time to grasp their principles. Without giving too much credit to this thesis - sometimes refuted by facts - we shall admit that the natives of this sign have the capacity to patiently and methodically build their destiny.
The Sun represents vitality, individuality, will-power and creative energy and honours. For a woman, it also represents her father, and later her husband. It's element is fire; it is hot and dry, it governs Leo, is in exaltation in Aries and is in analogy with the heart. For more information, see the page dedicated to the Sun.
Jim Carrey’s Sun is in the third house of his birth chart, which is about communication and expression. In your natal chart, the Sun is in the 3rd House. Communication is the major key to your fulfilment. Your ideal? It consists in relentlessly learning new concepts, and in discovering the real nature of people. Take the mask off! Curiosity does not kill the cat any more. On the contrary, it is the best tool for your personal growth.
It’s known that Jim Carrey struggles with depression, so he may have used laughter as a way to overcome personal pain. He may be very hard on himself, critical. The third house also has a lot of the same qualities as Gemini, the third zodiac sign and the sign of the twins.
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Gemini Moon: The Communicative Soul
Jim Carrey’s natal chart moon is in Gemini. People with moon in Gemini think they’re feelings. They need a lot of communication. Daily news regularly puts the spotlight on all sorts of famous people. Astrology may also be considered as an interesting filter to better define their personality, and to guess whether the events they experience are confirmed by their planets' activities. Does he owe his assets to the Moon in Gemini, whose emotional mobility and sensitiveness are well-known in this sign?
The Moon represents instinctive reaction, unconscious predestination, everyday mood, sensitivity, emotions, the feminine side of the personality, intuition, imagination. For a man, she represents his mother and later his wife, and his relationship with women in general. For a woman, the Moon is almost as important as the Sun and the Ascendant. Her element is water, she is cold and moist, she rules Cancer, is in exaltation in Taurus and is in analogy with the stomach. She symbolizes the mother, wife, the crowd, the Moon is associated with birth and childhood.
On the day and at the time of your birth, the Moon was in the sign of Gemini. You easily adjust to all kinds of situations because your outgoing nature integrates the characteristics of your environment very quickly. You communicate your emotions, you share your pleasures, your joys... and your sorrows. Your lunar sign belongs to the Gemini-Sagittarius axis that is decidedly open on the external world. You display strong assimilation abilities and you readily adopt your entourage's habits. Besides, your life setting does not necessarily have the stiff side that others may need to feel safe. You put up with rhythm changes and your balance is not upset by unforeseen events and contacts. On the contrary, you loathe solitude and you are very comfortable when you have to exchange and to relate to others.
However, Jim Carrey’s moon is in the eighth house of his birth chart, a “secretive” placement. With the Moon in the 8th House, your private world is filled with ghosts, phantasms, and fantasy. Your sensitivity is in natural harmony with the principles of crisis and transformation. It is most probable that you never feel better than when you have to give up the illusory projects of the day in order to rebuild a different world. Might it be some sort of masochism? This remains to be seen.
This echoes his Sun being in the third house, in Capricorn. One of the themes of his life, which is echoed with his Capricorn Sun, is that he represses thoughts.
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Scorpio Rising: The Magnetic Persona
Your rising sign, or ascendant, is the first impression you make. Jim Carrey’s Rising Sign is Scorpio. Scorpio Rising people wear a mask of secrecy. You don’t really ever know who they are. This is a strength of Jim Carrey’s career in that he can absorb and almost psychically become another person and go into character.
Regarding Carrey's attraction to the unknown, Neptune's role is important, as he is the second trans-Saturnian planet on the Scorpio Ascendant. In this position, the ruler of Pisces gives a strong aura, talent, and the capacity to arouse empathy. He can play all the roles tough guys, villains, comics, or even madmen always concerned about jostling the audience.
Planetary Placements and Aspects
Venus and Mars in Capricorn: Love and Relationships
Venus and Mars are the love planets in astrology. Jim Carrey has most of the planets packed down at the bottom of his chart, in Capricorn and Aquarius. Venus and Mars in Capricorn can make someone a little distant when it comes to relationships. They want to have a long-term partner, build something traditional, but they can struggle to share feelings in a way that allows a relationship to flourish. So there’s some “confusion” in his chart.
Because of his Scorpio Rising, when he likes someone, he may become obsessive about it. He’s what you call an avoidant detacher because once someone gets close to him, that Capricorn Sun, Venus and Mars may pull back, go cold or put up a wall. Additionally, his Gemini moon might start to flip-flop and say, “Wait, is this right? Should I?
Aquarius Influence: Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn
Jim Carrey also has four placements in Aquarius (Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury) and the South node of the moon. His Mercury and Jupiter are right next to each other, so he has unique ideas, and he just can’t help himself, probably blurts them out!
In your chart, Mercury is in Aquarius. Everything with a human tint catches your attention. You are sensitive to the specificities and the uniqueness of each individual and you feel you learn a lot whenever you meet with an open-minded and curious person. You do not get along well with stay-at-home and conservative people. As each relationship is constantly evolving, with time, it can, and it must, grow and offer surprises and potentials. On the human plane, you are very idealistic - sometimes even utopian - readily trusting and valuing persons who may not always be worth it. This is the drawback inherent to your highly commendable open-mindedness and your tolerance. Your ideas are original and liberal.
If Mercury is part of your natal chart's planetary dominants, in astrology, you are said to be a Mercurian: the tradition points out the importance of communication. From idle but enriching chatters to observation gift, such a dominant endows you with a wide range of expression. Human beings have one thousand facets and one thousand masks they wear according to circumstances and the fortunes of the game of life. You take the role of an observer who is avid for novelties, discoveries, and surprises. Everything catches your attention and becomes an opportunity for new encounters, relationships, and learning. The world amazes you, amuses you sometimes, and stimulates your curiosity. Because the most important thing is to discover, and because you consider that each new situation is packed with potentialities, you try to fill the gaps in your knowledge. Although your open-mindedness may scatter your centres of interest, it also enables you to carefully avoid sticking to only one immutable and rigid view. The slightest sign enables you to perceive the other side of the coin, as well as the infinite complexity of people and of situations.
People born with an Aquarius South Node struggle to feel like they belong. They may feel like outsiders and have a hard time opening their hearts. There’s a theme throughout Jim Carrey’s entire birth chart around this: showing and revealing emotions can strike fear in his heart.
Neptune in Scorpio: Imagination and Healing
Jim Carrey’s natal chart shows Neptune next to his ascendant in Scorpio, in his twelfth house. Neptune reveals where your imagination reigns supreme and also where you can heal and do inner work. This often shows up for someone who comes into this lifetime with a heavy load to bear. Jim Carrey has mentioned in interviews his childhood wasn’t easy because of his mother’s chronic illness and addiction, and his family’s financial insecurity.
Leo North Node and Uranus: Eccentricity and Freedom
While there’s a lot of heavy energy that he came into this lifetime with, what will free him is his Leo North Node. He also has Uranus, the planet of quirkiness, freedom and liberation, in Leo, right on his midheaven (the career line at the top of his chart). Jim Carrey really was meant to bring his eccentricity to Hollywood. A part of his personality pushes him toward a certain mysticism. Uranus plays the lead role, conjunct the Midheaven and in the 10th House, that of career. Besides, his professional path is quite unpredictable, in accordance with the influence of this planet.
Chiron in Pisces: Wounded Healer
Jim Carrey’s Chiron is in Pisces, the sign of solitude and isolation, and in his fourth house of home and family. Work around family of origin, even past life family trauma, is what he could do. Even though he brings so many amazing gifts into this lifetime, allowing people to see his heart, get close to him and coping with the anxiety, can take a lot from him.
Challenging Aspects: Oppositions and Tensions
Jim Carrey has an interesting chart that has a lot of oppositions in it, as explained above. His chart has tense angles that show a personality and a life that may be filled with challenges, a lot of hard things that he has to stretch through.
Other Astrological Influences
- Mercury Square Ascendant: Birth charts having the same aspect Mercury square Ascendant (orb 0°28'): Billie Eilish, Ted Bundy, Audrey Hepburn, Charles III, Harrison Ford, Stephen Hawking, Nostradamus, Jennifer Garner, Denzel Washington...
- Mercury Conjunction Jupiter: Birth charts having the same aspect Mercury conjunction Jupiter (orb 0°32'): Brigitte Bardot, Anti-Christ, Nick Jonas, Woody Allen, Dylan O'Brien, Lenny Kravitz, Jenifer (singer), Michael Douglas, Jaehyun (singer)...
- Celebrities Born the Same Day: Michelle Obama, Muhammad Ali, Françoise Hardy, Dalida, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Paul, Betty White, Benjamin Franklin, Calvin Harris...
In Carrey's chart, these two signs are roughly equally strong with a slight advantage for Capricorn. Subsequently, he managed to exploit all his assets to make the crowds both laugh and cry laugh. Getting back to his biography, despite his mitigated first steps, Carrey was not the type to abandon his projects.
Although in conflicting aspect with the Ascendant, these two planets give excellent communication and seduction powers. This is all the truer that they are in the 3rd House.
Finally, a third slow-moving planet, Pluto, is among the dominants. In the 10th House, ruler of the chart, he sends ordeals to Carrey in order to strengthen him. Incidentally, let us note that his quite hectic romantic life follows this trend too. Luckily for Carrey, the courts closed the case at the beginning of 2018.
Carrey progressively felt better as he used the weapons of Capricorn. He shut himself off. At 56, he told Radio Times that he spends a lot of time alone, but that he enjoys it, and therefore, it is fine; that although it may seem strange to some people, he appreciates solitude. Later on, the series Kidding served as a therapy helping him to get back on his feet.
Regarding the 2020 upcoming transits, it will be interesting to see how he will experience the passage of the Saturn-Jupiter and Pluto trio. There is also the return of Saturn, who will make a first trip in Aquarius in the spring of 2020 (before his first retrogradation), as soon as the summer starts. In any case, he remains one of the most prominent personalities in Hollywood.
If the Sun is part of your natal chart's planetary dominants, in astrology, you are said to be a Solarian: you loathe pettiness and Machiavellian manoeuvre, and you are fond of natural nobleness as well as of direct and honest attitudes. You endeavour to get out of muddled or dark situations as quickly as possible. Your need for transparency may lead you to make cut-and-dried judgments such as yes or no, and black or white. However, your honesty commands your entourage's consideration. At times, you come across as authoritarian. It is true that you never want to be thought of the notable absentee, and that you manage to make people pay attention to you, as well as to your plans and your assessments. To this end, the Solarian sometimes develops a great talent for placing himself under the spotlight without missing a single opportunity to arouse interest. Some other Solarians, although more discreet, still manage to be the focus of any debate, even in situations of exclusion. It is your way of being present even though you are actually not there... More than other people, you appreciate the esteem extended to you. It is useless to cheat with you, since in all areas you consider establishing enduring relationships only with those who love you, admire you, respect you, or express some degree of affection to you. Your will to straighten out your inter-personal relationships is your strength and sometimes, your Achilles' heel. You cannot achieve anything behind the scenes.
If the Moon is part of your natal chart's planetary dominants, in astrology, you are said to be a Lunarian: the driving force behind your actions is mainly the pursuit of well-being and tranquillity. Your sensitive and romantic self lives on those periods of rest during which you let your imagination wander at will. This is your way of finding inspiration and balance. Nothing is allowed to disturb your feeling of fulfilment and security within a harmonious cell, be it a family or a clan. More than other people, the Lunarian is attached to those moments during which one forgets one's worries and lets oneself cast adrift aimlessly, with no other goal than to be lulled into an ambiance, a situation, or a perfect moment. Many people do not understand such absences and their meaning, which is to regain strength. These people readily describe you with such unflattering terms as apathy and nonchalance. Never mind! Some inspirations require surrendering as well as striking a balance derived from alternate action and passivity. Your qualities are expressed to the fullest in situations which demand familiarity and privacy. Your capacities to respect and blend into your environment is at least as valuable as some other people's aggressive dispositions.