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Jack Rosenthal

Jack Rosenthal (born June 30, 1935, Tel Aviv, Israel; died 2017), was a Journalist, government official, executive. Rosenthal's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.

Jack Rosenthal’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Wood Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Jack Rosenthal’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Visionary

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, 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

Of the names registered in 1935, Jack came 18th among boys and 1,107th among girls, carried by 9,438 American boys and 40 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

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

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

9 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Pearl, Pearl, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌿 Fern

Rose pink · Pearl · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, 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 Rosenthal took the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1982, at 47.

Harvard University shaped the training.

Cause of death is recorded as pancreatic cancer.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jack Rosenthal: Journalists from Portland, Oregon, The Oregonian people and American male journalists.

Czesław Miłosz (1911) and Mike Tyson (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Harvard University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (1982)
Cause of death
pancreatic cancer
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Jack, according to the stars

Core essence

Jack feels the room before entering it. The core of Jack is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Jack, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

How Jack wants to be loved

Jack wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Jack openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

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 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Jack is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Jack

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jack

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

PrivateExpressive
Jack

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jack

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Jack

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

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 Rosenthal

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

Jack’s birth-night reference starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 83.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alphecca →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 31.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Tel Aviv that night

Computed for 32.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Tel Aviv at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.4° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 78 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 32.1°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 −57.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Tel Aviv, Israel

The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2017.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jack Rosenthal: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Jack's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · 2 unaspected planets

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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The quick version

Cancer Sun

Guards the people, guards the past.

Jack Rosenthal's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 30, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Wood Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

Jack Rosenthal was born on June 30, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 9

Endings come naturally.

Jack Rosenthal's birth date, June 30, 1935, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 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 26° to 9° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.4° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.9° orbSaturn faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 2° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.4° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.5° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.9° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.5° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.5° orbSun in Cancer · 7°41′☉7°Moon in Cancer · 2°57′☽2°Mercury in Gemini · 25°33′ · retrograde☿℞25°Venus in Leo · 23°06′♀23°Mars in Libra · 15°58′♂15°Jupiter in Scorpio · 13°37′ · retrograde♃℞13°Saturn in Pisces · 10°10′ · retrograde♄℞10°Uranus in Taurus · 4°48′♅4°Neptune in Virgo · 12°10′♆12°Pluto in Cancer · 25°07′♇25°

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

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune1.4° to 1.5° orb

    Jack’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus1.9° to 3.0° orb

    Jack’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn2.0° to 3.0° orb

    Jack’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.0° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus2.4° to 3.3° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn3.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSunsextileNeptune4.0° to 5.0° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter5.4° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.9° to 13.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.9° to 13.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 12°34′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 20°29′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 8°07′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 3°24′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Neptune 0.4°
  • Eros trine Sun 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.9°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.6°
  • Eros conjunction Saturn 2.0°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.4°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 2.6°

Jack’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto

  2. 2. ☉ Sun5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Jack’s chart

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.0°
  • Mars biquintile Saturn 0.2°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°

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Jack’s cards

Computed from June 30, 1935. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

9 · Healer

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17514013 (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 Dgoats, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jack Rosenthal at Wikipedia.

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

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

Quick answers about Jack Rosenthal’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jack Rosenthal?
Jack Rosenthal was a Cancer: born June 30, 1935, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What was Jack Rosenthal's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 30, 1935 birth.
What was Jack Rosenthal's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Jack Rosenthal's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Jack Rosenthal's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jack Rosenthal's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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