Jack Kilby
Jack Kilby (born November 8, 1923, Jefferson City, United States; died 2005), was an American electrical engineer. Kilby is best remembered for integrated circuit. Kilby's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Inventors Hall of Fame and IEEE Medal of Honor.
Jack Kilby’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Jack
Jack Kilby’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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 11,190 American boys and 61 girls named Jack in 1923: 17th among boys and 944th 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
1
Soul Urge · independence
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on J (1) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
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
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
The record
What sets Jack apart
Alain Delon (1935) and Gordon Ramsay (1966) 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 does not do surface. The core of Jack is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Jack is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Jack feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Jack needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Jack wants to be loved
Jack wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Jack and watch them fall for you again.
How Jack creates
How Jack makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Jack creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Jack is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Jack is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Kilby
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Jefferson City 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 Jefferson City that night
Computed for 38.58°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Jefferson City at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 9.9° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 100 catalog stars above the horizon.
Jefferson City sits at 38.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −51.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Jefferson City on any night.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
How unusual Jack's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Jack Kilby's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 8, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Jack Kilby was born on November 8, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Jack Kilby's birth date, November 8, 1923, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Jack’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jack Kilby's date-only chart is Mercury trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jack Kilby combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Jack’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 24° Scorpio 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
stableMercurytrinePluto0.5° to 2.2° orb
Jack’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineUranus1.1° to 2.1° orb
Jack’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssquarePluto1.2° to 1.8° orb
Jack’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrinePluto1.5° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus2.0° to 3.6° orb
stableSuntrinePluto2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.1° to 4.7° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.5° to 5.5° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune6.0° to 6.2° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Jack’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 17°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 6°27′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 11°48′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 3°21′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 14°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.4°
- Eros square Mercury 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.0°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.7°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.7°
Jack’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Jack’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Grand trine · Sun, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Mercury, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.0°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.9°
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Fellow Scorpio suns
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Born in Pig years
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- Carrie UnderwoodAmerican singer and actor (born 1983)
Also born on November 8
- Alain Delon1935
- Gordon Ramsay1966
- SZA1989
- DanTDM1991
- Kevin Kwan1973
- Lauren Alaina1994
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Jack BlackAmerican actor, comedian, singer, musician and producer
- Jessica BielAmerican actress
- Chadwick BosemanAmerican actor
Other Scorpio Pig charts
- Teddy SagiIsraeli businessperson
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- Nadine GordimerSouth African writer
- Evo MoralesPresident of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019
Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
- Henry S. TaylorAmerican poet
- Roman AninMoldovan investigative journalist
- Edwin MorganScottish poet and translator
- Frank X WalkerAfrican-American poet from Kentucky (1961- )
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Adam GoldbergAmerican actor
- Trevor MorganAmerican actor (born 1986)
- Stephen ReaIrish actor
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Jack’s cards
Computed from November 8, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q182031 (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 James R. Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jack Kilby at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jack Kilby.
Quick answers about Jack Kilby’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jack Kilby?
- Jack Kilby was a Scorpio: born November 8, 1923, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Jack Kilby's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 8, 1923 birth.
- What was Jack Kilby's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jack Kilby's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jack Kilby's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jack Kilby's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
