Jack Cardiff
Jack Cardiff (born September 18, 1914, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom; died 2009), was a British cinematographer, director and photographer. Cardiff's honours include Order of the British Empire, Golden Globe Award for Best Director and Golden Globe Awards.
Jack Cardiff’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Jack
Jack Cardiff’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Jack in the U.S.?
#15
US rank in 2025
~759,677
Americans share it since 1880
1927
its peak year
The SSA recorded 4,485 American boys and 22 girls named Jack in 1914: 27th among boys and 1,358th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jack’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
2
Soul Urge · closeness
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on J (1) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jack’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
The record
What sets Jack apart
Ronaldo (1976) and James Gandolfini (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Jack, according to the stars
Core essence
Jack notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Jack is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Jack wants to be loved
Jack 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 Jack even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Jack creates
How Jack makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Jack creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Jack is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Jack is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
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. Jack fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Jack's birth date. Working below.
Where Jack sits
Six lines
Jack’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Jack Cardiff
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Great Yarmouth on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Great Yarmouth that night
Computed for 52.61°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Great Yarmouth at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.9° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 52.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Great Yarmouth at all: they sit past the −37.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 2% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 25° down.
How unusual Jack's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · No Fire planets · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Jack Cardiff's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 18, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Jack Cardiff was born on September 18, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Jack Cardiff's birth date, September 18, 1914, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Jack’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jack Cardiff's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jack Cardiff combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Jack’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 12° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto0.5° orb
Jack’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.8° to 2.4° orb
Jack’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareJupiter1.6° to 2.6° orb
Jack’s affections grind against their growth.
stableVenussquareUranus2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.7° to 4.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus5.1° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileNeptuneorb from 4.7° to 5.6° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareSaturnorb from 6.5° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysquarePlutoorb from 6.6° to 8.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.
Jack’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 16°13′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 18°27′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aries 6°47′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 21°49′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 3°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mars 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Eros opposition Mercury 2.8°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.9°
Jack’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Jack’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
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More charts like Jack’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Oscar HijuelosAmerican novelist
- Leon EdelCanadian writer
- Marya ZaturenskaUkrainian-American poet
Born in Tiger years
- Federico ViñasUruguayan footballer
- Martín ZubimendiSpanish footballer (born 1999)
- Torbjørn HeggemNorwegian footballer (born 1999)
Also born on September 18
- Ronaldo1976
- James Gandolfini1961
- Jada Pinkett Smith1971
- James Marsden1973
- Jason Sudeikis1975
- Serge Ibaka1989
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Kobe BufkinAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Jerami GrantAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Jordan HawkinsAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
Other Virgo Tiger charts
- K. J. BrittAmerican football player
- A. J. EpenesaAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Deejay DallasAmerican football running back
- Brady RussellAmerican football player
Other Radiant Healers
- Ernest Udeh Jr.American basketball player (born 2004)
- Amari WilliamsBritish basketball player (born 2002)
- Jamal MurrayCanadian basketball player (born 1997)
- Baba MillerSpanish basketball player (born 2004)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Rúben NevesPortuguese footballer (born 1997)
- Nicolás de la CruzUruguayan association football player
- Michel AebischerSwiss association football player
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Jack’s cards
Computed from September 18, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q436704 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. 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, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Not known. Cardiff family have given permission for it be used on Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jack Cardiff at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jack Cardiff.
Quick answers about Jack Cardiff’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jack Cardiff?
- Jack Cardiff was a Virgo: born September 18, 1914, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Jack Cardiff's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 18, 1914 birth.
- What was Jack Cardiff's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jack Cardiff's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jack Cardiff's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jack Cardiff's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
