Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay (born November 9, 1961, Edinburgh, United Kingdom), aged 64, is a Scottish poet and novelist. Kay is best known for Darling: New & Selected Poems and Trumpet. Kay's honours include Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Somerset Maugham Award and Lambda Literary Award.
Jackie Kay’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Ox, with 
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Jackie Kay’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Jackie in the U.S.?
#2163
US rank in 2025
~170,153
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Jackie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
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What the chart says
Jackie, according to the stars
Core essence
Jackie does not do surface. The core of Jackie is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Jackie is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Jackie wants to be loved
Jackie wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Jackie gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Jackie creates
How Jackie 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. Jackie 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: Jackie is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Jackie is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Jackie leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Jackie runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Jackie's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jackie sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Jackie Kay's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 9, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Jackie Kay was born on November 9, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Jackie Kay's birth date, November 9, 1961, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Jackie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jackie Kay's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Jackie Kay combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Jackie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jackie Kay, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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.
stableMoonsquareUranus0.1° to 6.8° orb
Jackie’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.3° to 0.4° orb
Jackie’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Jackie’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.5° to 2.6° orb
Jackie’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileUranus1.8° to 3.0° orb
Jackie’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.8° to 2.5° orb
Jackie’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.0° to 3.0° orb
Jackie’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter2.3° to 3.4° orb
Jackie’s affections grind against their growth.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.5° to 3.7° orb
Jackie’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.9° to 4.0° orb
Jackie’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMarssquareUranus3.0° to 3.7° orb
Jackie’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileJupiter3.6° to 4.1° orb
Jackie’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Jackie’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 1°53′
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 Jackie absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 20°29′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Jackie is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosCapricorn 6°53′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Jackie is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 22°03′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Jackie is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 1°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Jackie exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Eros trine Pluto 3.0°
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°).
Jackie’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Jackie is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Jackie’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.
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree 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 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.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.5°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.0°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
- Saturn quintile Neptune 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jackie Kay, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Jackie’s cards
Every card is computed from November 9, 1961, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jackie Kay, 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
Jackie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6116451, 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 University of Salford Press Office, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jackie Kay at Wikipedia.
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 Jackie Kay.
Quick answers about Jackie Kay’s chart
- How old is Jackie Kay?
- Jackie Kay is 64 years old, born November 9, 1961 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Jackie Kay?
- Jackie Kay is a Scorpio: born November 9, 1961, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox.
- What is Jackie Kay's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 9, 1961 birth.
- What time was Jackie Kay 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 is Jackie Kay's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the November 9, 1961 birth date.
- What is Jackie Kay's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 9, 1961 birth date.
- Where is Jackie Kay's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jackie Kay's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
