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Jack N. Rakove

Jack N. Rakove (born June 4, 1947, Chicago, United States), aged 79, is an American historian. Rakove's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.

Jack N. Rakove’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Jack N. Rakove’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Explorer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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

In 1947, 8,507 American boys and 23 girls were registered Jack — 37th among boys and 2,062nd among girls on the SSA's list that 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

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

8

Personality · capable, in charge

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

4 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy

Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange

The record

What sets Jack apart

Angelina Jolie (1975) and Russell Brand (1975) 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 is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Jack needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Jack is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Jack needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Jack wants to be loved

Jack wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Jack is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

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 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Jack is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Jack is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Jack

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jack

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Jack

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jack

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Jack

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jack

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jack N. Rakove

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Jack’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 86.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 14.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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.

Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.5° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.

Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Chicago at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.

How unusual Jack's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl

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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Jack N. Rakove at a glance

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Jack N. Rakove's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 4, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Jack N. Rakove was born on June 4, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

Jack N. Rakove's birth date, June 4, 1947, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Jack’s chart

Jack’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.5° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 1.2° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.7° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.9° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.3° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.5° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 5.1° orbSun in Gemini · 13°13′☉13°Moon in Sagittarius · 23°07′☽23°Mercury in Cancer · 3°33′☿3°Venus in Taurus · 18°52′♀18°Mars in Taurus · 10°50′♂10°Jupiter in Scorpio · 20°07′ · retrograde♃℞20°Saturn in Leo · 5°09′♄5°Uranus in Gemini · 21°23′♅21°Neptune in Libra · 8°05′ · retrograde♆℞8°Pluto in Leo · 11°22′♇11°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonoppositionUranus0.0° to 7.7° orb

    Jack’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableMarssquarePluto0.2° to 0.9° orb

    Jack’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter0.6° to 1.9° orb

    Jack’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.

  • stableSunsextilePluto1.4° to 2.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.9° to 3.0° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune3.7° to 5.4° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune4.7° to 5.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn5.4° to 6.0° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.2° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 4.4° to 15.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 5.3° to 15.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Jack’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 2°56′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAries 20°13′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 13°13′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 1°50′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 13°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Sun 0.0°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 0.6°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 1.2°
  • Eros trine Pluto 1.9°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.2°

Jack’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 4 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.

  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.2°
  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.3°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.6°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°

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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time

Jack’s cards

Computed from June 4, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

4 · Architect

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6114263 (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 U.S. National Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jack N. Rakove at Wikipedia and profiles.stanford.edu.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jack N. Rakove.

Quick answers about Jack N. Rakove’s chart

How old is Jack N. Rakove?
Jack N. Rakove is 79 years old, born June 4, 1947 in Chicago, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jack N. Rakove?
Jack N. Rakove is a Gemini: born June 4, 1947, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Jack N. Rakove's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 4, 1947 birth.
What is Jack N. Rakove's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Jack N. Rakove's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jack N. Rakove's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jack N. Rakove's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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