AsterNymAsterNym
Portrait of Jack White

Jack White

Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis; July 9, 1975, Detroit, United States), aged 51, is an American musician. White is best known for It Might Get Loud and Lazaretto. White's honours include Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance.

Jack White’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rabbit, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

Your match with Jack

Free, no account, stays on this device. Add a birth time later.

Jack White’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 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, 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

The SSA recorded 1,742 American boys and 7 girls named Jack in 1975: 142nd among boys and 7,443rd among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jack’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name John Anthony Gillis, not the name they published under.

5

Expression · versatility

22

Soul Urge · legacy

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

11 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1975, 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

Tom Hanks (1956) and Courtney Love (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

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 creates

How Jack makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Jack creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Jack is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Jack is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

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 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.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jack White

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night

Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Detroit at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaid of Ursa Major, within 11.3° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.

Detroit sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −47.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Detroit on any night.

The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -1° down.

The name and the places

Born as
John Anthony Gillis
Known as
Jack White
Born in
Detroit, United States
Lives in
Nashville

Wikidata records Nashville as Jack White's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jack White: 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

31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Saturn · 1 planet at a critical degree

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 →

If you only read one paragraph

Cancer Sun

Feeds you before you ask.

Jack White's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 9, 1975, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Wood Rabbit

Soft voice, sharp read.

Jack White was born on July 9, 1975, which falls in a Wood Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 11

Intuition before evidence.

Jack White's birth date, July 9, 1975, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 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 16° to 0° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.8° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.9° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.7° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.8° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.9° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.6° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun in Cancer · 16°50′☉16°Moon in Cancer · 23°27′☽23°Mercury in Gemini · 26°16′☿26°Venus in Virgo · 0°09′♀0°Mars in Taurus · 6°00′♂6°Jupiter in Aries · 22°39′♃22°Saturn in Cancer · 21°44′♄21°Uranus in Libra · 28°22′♅28°Neptune in Sagittarius · 9°29′ · retrograde♆℞9°Pluto in Libra · 6°37′♇6°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn0.9° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrineUranus1.4° to 2.7° orb

    Jack’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussextileUranus1.4° to 2.1° orb

    Jack’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter3.0° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus3.6° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.5° to 5.3° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.4° to 6.2° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus5.7° to 5.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars5.8° to 5.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus6.6° to 6.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus7.3° to 8.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed1 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.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 27°56′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 24°49′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 18°25′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 16°59′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 17°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.4°
  • Eros square Sun 1.6°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 1.7°
  • Chiron trine Venus 2.2°

Jack’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon7 pts

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

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Jack’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars quincunx Pluto 0.6°
  • Sun quintile Mars 1.2°
  • Sun biquintile Neptune 1.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°

More people like Jack

Other composers

Born in United States

More charts like Jack’s

Fellow Cancer suns

All about Cancer →

Born in Rabbit years

Year of the Rabbit →

Also born on July 9

Fellow Yang Fire day masters

What a Day Master is →

Other Cancer Rabbit charts

Other Radiant Visionarys

The Radiant Visionary explained →

Famous people with Life Path 11

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs

Jack’s cards

Computed from July 9, 1975. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

11 · Visionary

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jack’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272031 (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 Erin Mc, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jack White at Wikipedia, jackwhiteiii.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

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

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

Quick answers about Jack White’s chart

How old is Jack White?
Jack White is 51 years old, born July 9, 1975 in Detroit, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jack White?
Jack White is a Cancer: born July 9, 1975, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is Jack White's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 9, 1975 birth.
What is Jack White's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What is Jack White's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jack White's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jack White's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Saturn). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

More charts to explore