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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Dragon, with 
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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.
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Americans share it since 1880
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Jacqui’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jacqui sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFires 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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Jacqui Banaszynski was born on April 17, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Better with someone at their back.
Jacqui Banaszynski's birth date, April 17, 1952, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Jacqui’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jacqui Banaszynski's date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jacqui Banaszynski combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Jacqui’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jacqui Banaszynski, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
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
Jacqui’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.2° to 1.5° orb
Jacqui’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb
Jacqui’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareUranus1.5° to 1.6° orb
Jacqui’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.6° orb
Jacqui’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMarssquarePluto3.9° to 4.2° orb
Jacqui’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineUranus4.6° to 4.9° orb
Jacqui’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.1° to 7.3° orb
Jacqui’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 12°29′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Jacqui is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresAries 24°23′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Jacqui looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosCancer 14°10′ (moves 0.94° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Jacqui is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaAries 21°44′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Jacqui feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 2°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Jacqui is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Jacqui’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. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Jacqui is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Jacqui’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 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 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 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 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.
- Mercury biquintile Mars 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Mars 0.5°
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jacqui Banaszynski, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Dragon years
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Jacqui’s cards
Every card is computed from April 17, 1952, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Jacqui Banaszynski, 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
Jacqui’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q60161903, 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 Knight Foundation, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jacqui Banaszynski 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dragon.
- 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 time was Jacqui Banaszynski 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 Jacqui Banaszynski's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the April 17, 1952 birth date.
- What is Jacqui Banaszynski's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 17, 1952 birth date.
- 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.
