Jacques d'Amboise
Jacques d'Amboise (born July 28, 1934, Dedham, United States; died 2021), was an American dancer and choreographer. d'Amboise's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, MacArthur Fellows Program and National Medal of Arts.
Jacques d'Amboise’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Jacques
Jacques d'Amboise’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Jacques in the U.S.?
#1938
US rank in 2025
~9,977
Americans share it since 1888
1969
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1934, Jacques came 1,201st, carried by 31 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jacques’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jacques’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1934, 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 Jacques apart
Jacques d'Amboise took the Paul Robeson Award in 1988, at 54.
School of American Ballet shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1949, at 15.
Cause of death is recorded as stroke.
On the family side, Jacques d'Amboise was married Carolyn George and raised 2 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jacques d'Amboise: Artists from Dedham, Massachusetts, Dancers from Massachusetts and House of Amboise.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929) and Harry Kane (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- School of American Ballet
- Awards
- Kennedy Center Honors (1995), Heinz Award (2001) and Paul Robeson Award (1988)
- Working from
- 1949
- Cause of death
- stroke
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
What the chart says
Jacques, according to the stars
Core essence
Jacques is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Jacques is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Jacques wants to be loved
Jacques 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. Jacques gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Jacques creates
How Jacques makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Jacques creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Jacques is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Jacques is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jacques does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Jacques's birth date. Working below.
Where Jacques sits
Six lines
Jacques’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Jacques d'Amboise
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Dedham 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 Dedham that night
Computed for 42.25°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Dedham at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.9° above the horizon in Draco.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 42.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Dedham on any night.
Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon down and 91% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Dedham, United States
The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2021.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jacques d'Amboise: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Jacques's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Cancer · 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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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Jacques d'Amboise's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 28, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
Jacques d'Amboise was born on July 28, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Jacques d'Amboise's birth date, July 28, 1934, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Jacques’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jacques d'Amboise's date-only chart is Mercury square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jacques d'Amboise combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Jacques’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 12° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
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
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.2° to 0.7° orb
Jacques’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.9° to 2.5° orb
Jacques’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.4° to 3.0° orb
Jacques’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSunsquareUranus3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableUranussquarePluto6.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars7.4° to 7.5° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 1.6° to 16.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 3.6° to 17.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Jacques’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 8°35′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 28°24′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 4°32′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 1°47′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 1°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.4°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.1°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.2°
Jacques’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Pluto
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Jacques’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Mercury, Venus, Mars, PlutoThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Jupiter 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.2°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.7°
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Jacques’s cards
Computed from July 28, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
7 · Seeker☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jacques’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1336262 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Jacques d'Amboise’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jacques d'Amboise?
- Jacques d'Amboise was a Leo: born July 28, 1934, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Jacques d'Amboise's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 28, 1934 birth.
- What was Jacques d'Amboise's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jacques d'Amboise's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jacques d'Amboise's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jacques d'Amboise's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
