Jacob Burck
Jacob Burck (born January 10, 1907, Białystok, Poland; died 1982), was a Polish-born Jewish-American painter & sculptor. Burck's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
Jacob Burck’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Jacob
Jacob Burck’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Jacob in the U.S.?
#43
US rank in 2025
~990,532
Americans share it since 1880
1998
its peak year
The SSA recorded 243 American boys named Jacob in 1907: 101st for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jacob’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on B (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 3: tact against voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jacob’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
The record
What sets Jacob apart
Robert Wilson (1936) and Jemaine Clement (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Jacob, according to the stars
Core essence
Jacob is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Jacob is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Jacob wants to be loved
Jacob wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Jacob and watch them fall for you again.
How Jacob creates
How Jacob makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Jacob creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Jacob is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Jacob 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 Jacob leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Jacob 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 Jacob's birth date. Working below.
Where Jacob sits
Six lines
Jacob’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Jacob Burck
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Białystok 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 Białystok that night
Computed for 53.13°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Capella stood nearest the zenith over Białystok at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.8° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 109 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 53.1°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −36.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Białystok on any night.
The Moon, 17% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.
How unusual Jacob's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet
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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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Jacob Burck's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 10, 1907, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Horse
Fire HorseRuns free, catches feelings anyway.
Jacob Burck was born on January 10, 1907, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
Jacob Burck's birth date, January 10, 1907, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Jacob’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jacob Burck's date-only chart is Saturn trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jacob Burck combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Jacob’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 3° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter0.0° to 1.6° orb
Jacob’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.1° to 0.2° orb
Jacob’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb
Jacob’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.2° to 3.7° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune3.2° to 3.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.4° to 4.8° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.0° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.3° to 4.7° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune5.2° to 6.7° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.7° to 7.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Jacob’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 11°06′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 6°56′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 5°51′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 29°49′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 20°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Venus 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 0.8°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.1°
Jacob’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 5 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Jacob’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
More people like Jacob
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- Arthur RubinsteinPolish-American classical pianist
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Born in Horse years
- Jack BechAmerican football player (born 2002)
- David QuessenberryAmerican football offensive lineman
- Dont'e ThorntonAmerican football player (born 2002)
Also born on January 10
- Robert Wilson1936
- Jemaine Clement1974
- Faith Kipyegon1994
- Reneé Rapp2000
- Rauw Alejandro1993
- Chris Van Hollen1959
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- Stephanie BeatrizArgentine-American actress
- Summer McIntoshCanadian swimmer
- Big SeanAmerican rapper
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- Jay ChouTaiwanese pop singer, songwriter, and actor
- Dave MatthewsAmerican singer-songwriter
Other Steadfast Strategists
- Julian AssangeAustralian editor, publisher, and activist
- George LucasAmerican filmmaker and philanthropist
- Salman RushdieIndian-born English and American novelist
- George ClooneyAmerican-French actor and filmmaker
Famous people with Life Path 1
- George MacreadyAmerican actor
- Slim PickensAmerican rodeo performer, film and television actor
- Paul HörbigerAustrian actor
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Jacob’s cards
Computed from January 10, 1907. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jacob’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6118434 (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 Daily Worker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jacob Burck at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jacob Burck.
Quick answers about Jacob Burck’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jacob Burck?
- Jacob Burck was a Capricorn: born January 10, 1907, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Jacob Burck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 10, 1907 birth.
- What was Jacob Burck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jacob Burck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jacob Burck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jacob Burck's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 5 major aspects). Neptune is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
