Jack Miles
Jack Miles (born July 30, 1942, Chicago, United States), aged 84, is an American writer. Miles's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellows Program.
Jack Miles’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Horse, with 
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Jack Miles’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Jack’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Gold · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Jack, according to the stars
Core essence
Jack is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Jack is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Jack is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Jack needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Jack wants to be loved
Jack wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Jack gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Jack creates
How Jack makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Jack builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Jack is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Jack is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Jack fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Jack's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jack sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Jack Miles at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Jack Miles's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 30, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Jack Miles was born on July 30, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Jack Miles's birth date, July 30, 1942, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Jack’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jack Miles' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Jack Miles combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Jack’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jack Miles, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° Pisces depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 1.7° orb
Jack’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.0° to 1.9° orb
Jack’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto1.2° to 3.2° orb
Jack’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranussextilePluto1.5° orb
Jack’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.9° to 2.9° orb
Jack’s affections and growth act as one.
stableSunsextileSaturn2.5° to 3.4° orb
Jack’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileUranus2.5° to 3.5° orb
Jack’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.1° to 4.2° orb
Jack’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.4° orb
Jack’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareUranus4.6° to 5.2° orb
Jack’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.9° to 6.0° orb
Jack’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableUranustrineNeptune6.1° orb
Jack’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Jack’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironLeo 17°07′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Jack performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 4°02′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Jack looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 22°58′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Jack is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCancer 15°08′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Jack is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 26°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Jack that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.0°
- Ceres trine Pluto 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.2°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Jack’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☉ Sun12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
6 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Jack is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Jack’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jack Miles, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Jack
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Born in United States
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on July 30
- Henry Ford1863
- Arnold Schwarzenegger1947
- Christopher Nolan1970
- Lisa Kudrow1963
- Kate Bush1958
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Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Holly MadisonAmerican television personality
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- Iman VellaniCanadian-Pakistani actress
Other Leo Horse charts
- Nessa BarrettAmerican singer
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Other Evergreen Scholars
- Jamie DornanNorthern Irish actor
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Jack’s cards
Every card is computed from July 30, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jack Miles, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q45963, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Louis Pescevic, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jack Miles at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Jack Miles’s chart
- How old is Jack Miles?
- Jack Miles is 84 years old, born July 30, 1942 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jack Miles?
- Jack Miles is a Leo: born July 30, 1942, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse.
- What is Jack Miles's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 30, 1942 birth.
- What time was Jack Miles born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Jack Miles's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 30, 1942 birth date.
- What is Jack Miles's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 30, 1942 birth date.
- Where is Jack Miles's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jack Miles's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
