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Jacqui Banaszynski

Jacqui Banaszynski (born April 17, 1952, Pulaski, United States), aged 74, is an American journalist and academic. Banaszynski's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

Jacqui Banaszynski’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Jacqui Banaszynski’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Diplomat

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Jacqui in the U.S.?

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outside the current top list

~888

Americans share it since 1945

1961

its peak year

US records hold Jacqui from 1945 onward, though not for 1952 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1961 was its busiest.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jacqui’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

6

Soul Urge · being needed

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on J (1) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Jacqui’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily

White · Crimson · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Jacqui apart

Victoria Beckham (1974) and Jennifer Garner (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Jacqui, according to the stars

Core essence

Jacqui leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Jacqui is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Jacqui wants to be loved

Jacqui wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Jacqui creates

How Jacqui makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Jacqui creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Jacqui 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Jacqui is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Jacqui 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 Jacqui's birth date. Working below.

Where Jacqui sits

Six lines

Jacqui’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Jacqui

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jacqui

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Jacqui

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jacqui

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Jacqui

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jacqui

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jacqui Banaszynski

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pulaski on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Jacqui’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 83.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 33.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Pulaski that night

Computed for 44.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Pulaski at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 6.6° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

Pulaski sits at 44.7°N, high enough that Capella never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −45.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Pulaski on any night.

Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon down and 42% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Jacqui's chart is

Chart pattern score

73 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Aries · T-square onto Uranus · Five planets retrograde

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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The quick version

Aries Sun

Fires first. Thinks later.

Jacqui Banaszynski's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 17, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Water Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Jacqui Banaszynski was born on April 17, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 2

Better with someone at their back.

Jacqui Banaszynski's birth date, April 17, 1952, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Jacqui’s chart

Jacqui’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.1° orbSun fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 0.3° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.7° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.8° orbVenus faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbMercury faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 1.6° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.6° orbSun in Aries · 27°39′☉27°Moon in Aquarius · 2°31′☽2°Mercury in Aries · 8°45′ · retrograde☿℞8°Venus in Aries · 9°34′♀9°Mars in Scorpio · 15°05′ · retrograde♂℞15°Jupiter in Aries · 27°20′♃27°Saturn in Libra · 10°23′ · retrograde♄℞10°Uranus in Cancer · 10°19′♅10°Neptune in Libra · 20°08′ · retrograde♆℞20°Pluto in Leo · 19°08′ · retrograde♇℞19°

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

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Jacqui’s core identity and growth act as one.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb

    Jacqui’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.1° to 1.5° orb

    Jacqui’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussquareUranus0.1° to 1.3° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.2° to 1.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus1.5° to 1.6° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.6° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto3.9° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus4.6° to 4.9° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.1° to 7.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 13.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal7 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable0 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Jacqui’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 12°29′

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 24°23′ (moves 0.40° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 14°10′ (moves 0.94° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 21°44′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 2°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Mars 0.9°
  • Hygiea opposition Neptune 1.6°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.1°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.2°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 2.6°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 2.6°
  • Chiron square Venus 2.9°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 2.9°

Jacqui’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Jacqui’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, Venus, JupiterThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Venus, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Saturn, UranusAn 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.

  • Mercury biquintile Mars 0.3°
  • Venus biquintile Mars 0.5°
  • Sun quintile Uranus 0.7°
  • Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.0°

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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle

Jacqui’s cards

Computed from April 17, 1952. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jacqui’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q60161903 (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 Knight Foundation, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jacqui Banaszynski at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jacqui Banaszynski.

Quick answers about Jacqui Banaszynski’s chart

How old is Jacqui Banaszynski?
Jacqui Banaszynski is 74 years old, born April 17, 1952 in Pulaski, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jacqui Banaszynski?
Jacqui Banaszynski is an Aries: born April 17, 1952, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Jacqui Banaszynski's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 17, 1952 birth.
What is Jacqui Banaszynski's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Jacqui Banaszynski's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jacqui Banaszynski's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jacqui Banaszynski's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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