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, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Jack
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
Of the names registered in 1942, Jack came 34th among boys and 1,780th among girls, carried by 7,365 American boys and 23 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jack’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
6
Soul Urge · being needed
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Jack apart
Jack Miles took the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1996, at 54.
Xavier University and Pontifical Gregorian University shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jack Miles: American religion academics, University of California, Irvine faculty and Presidents of the National Book Critics Circle.
Henry Ford (1863) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Xavier University, Pontifical Gregorian University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1996) and MacArthur Fellows Program (2002)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
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. Working below.
Where Jack sits
Six lines
Jack’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Miles
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.8° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon down and 86% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Jack's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° Pisces 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
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
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableSunsextileUranus2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.1° to 4.2° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.4° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.6° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.9° to 6.0° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 17°07′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 4°02′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 22°58′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 15°08′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 26°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Jack’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Jack’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
More people like Jack
Other writers
- Joe Mayhew1942
- Nicholas Dante1941
- Howard Jacobson1942
- John Darnton1941
- C. J. Cherryh1942
- Ron Powers1941
Born in United States
- Betsey JohnsonAmerican fashion designer
- Mike WallaceAmerican historian
- Joe MayhewAmerican fan artist, science fiction writer, and librarian
- Harrison FordAmerican actor
- Patricia McBrideAmerican ballet dancer
- Henry S. TaylorAmerican poet
More charts like Jack’s
Fellow Leo suns
- Mário ZagalloBrazilian footballer
- Hayden PanettiereAmerican actress and singer
- CoolioAmerican rapper
Born in Horse years
- Jarell QuansahEnglish association football player
- Robin RoefsDutch association football player (born 2003)
- Taliese FuagaAmerican football player
Also born on July 30
- Henry Ford1863
- Arnold Schwarzenegger1947
- Christopher Nolan1970
- Lisa Kudrow1963
- Kate Bush1958
- Terry Crews1968
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Holly MadisonAmerican television personality
- Gianni AgnelliItalian businessman; grandson of FIAT's founder
- Iman VellaniCanadian-Pakistani actress
Other Leo Horse charts
- Nessa BarrettAmerican singer
- Huening KaiSouth Korean-American singer and rapper
- John CollisonIrish businessman
- Jennifer LawrenceAmerican actress and producer
Other Evergreen Scholars
- Jamie DornanNorthern Irish actor
- Trevor NoahSouth African comedian and television host
- Dikembe MutomboCongolese-American basketball player
- Sasha PieterseSouth African actress, singer
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Tony DovolaniBallroom dancer
- Anthony EdwardsAmerican actor
- Ethan EmbryAmerican actor
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Jack’s cards
Computed from July 30, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q45963 (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 Louis Pescevic, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jack Miles 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 Miles.
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.
- 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 is Jack Miles's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jack Miles's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
