Jack Vance
Jack Vance (born August 28, 1916, San Francisco, United States; died 2013), was an American mystery and speculative fiction writer. Vance is best remembered for Lyonesse Trilogy, Cugel's Saga and Dying Earth. Vance's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
Jack Vance’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Dragon, with 
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Jack Vance’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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US rank in 2025
~759,677
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Jack’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Lilac · Flame orange
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What the chart says
Jack, according to the stars
Core essence
Jack notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Jack is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Jack is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Jack needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
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 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 larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jack sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Jack Vance's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 28, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Jack Vance was born on August 28, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Jack Vance's birth date, August 28, 1916, 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 Vance's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Jack Vance combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Jack’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jack Vance, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Virgo 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.
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.0° to 6.9° orb
Jack’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Jack’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSunsextilePluto0.5° to 1.5° orb
Jack’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.2° orb
Jack’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.8° orb
Jack’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareMars2.6° to 2.8° orb
Jack’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMarssquareSaturn2.8° to 3.3° orb
Jack’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.0° to 4.2° orb
Jack’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysextileNeptune3.5° to 4.8° orb
Jack’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMercurysquarePluto4.0° to 5.3° orb
Jack’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn5.4° to 6.1° orb
Jack’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineUranus5.5° to 6.2° orb
Jack’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 24°54′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Jack absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLeo 7°39′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Jack is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosGemini 21°58′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Jack is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 4°20′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Jack carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 22°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Jack guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.8°
- Eros trine Mars 0.9°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.0°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 2.0°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.3°
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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Jack is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jack Vance, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
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- Hans VanakenBelgian footballer (born 1992)
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Jack’s cards
Every card is computed from August 28, 1916, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jack Vance, 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 Q312632, 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 User Hayford Peirce on en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jack Vance at Wikipedia, jackvance.com, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jack Vance.
Quick answers about Jack Vance’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jack Vance?
- Jack Vance was a Virgo: born August 28, 1916, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Dragon.
- What was Jack Vance's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 28, 1916 birth.
- What time was Jack Vance 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 was Jack Vance's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 28, 1916 birth date.
- What was Jack Vance's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 28, 1916 birth date.
- Where was Jack Vance's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jack Vance's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
