Jake Pavelka
Jake Pavelka (born January 27, 1978, Dallas, United States), aged 48, is an American pilot who appeared on four reality TV programs.
Jake Pavelka’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Snake, with 
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Jake Pavelka’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Jake in the U.S.?
#457
US rank in 2025
~129,539
Americans share it since 1880
2004
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Jake’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 9
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Jake apart
Rosamund Pike (1979) and Alan Cumming (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Jake, according to the stars
Core essence
Jake is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Jake is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Jake is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Jake needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Jake wants to be loved
Jake wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Jake be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Jake creates
How Jake 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. Jake 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: Jake is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Jake is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jake 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 Jake's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jake sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Jake Pavelka's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 27, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Jake Pavelka was born on January 27, 1978, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Jake Pavelka's birth date, January 27, 1978, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Jake’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jake Pavelka's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto.
- Jake Pavelka combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Jake’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jake Pavelka, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 22° Virgo 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.
stableMercurysquarePluto0.8° to 2.2° orb
Jake’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
Jake’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.2° to 1.4° orb
Jake’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.3° to 2.7° orb
Jake’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.7° orb
Jake’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.0° to 6.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 4.5° to 17.1° depending on birth time
possibleVenussquareUranusorb from 6.8° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMarsorb from 7.4° to 8.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Jake’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°15′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Jake building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 27°41′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Jake is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosPisces 7°04′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Jake is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 11°38′ (moves 0.37° 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. Jake is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 1°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Jake guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 0.7°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.0°
- Chiron square Mars 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.5°
- Chiron trine Saturn 2.6°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 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°).
Jake’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. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Jake is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Jake’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jake Pavelka, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Jake’s cards
Every card is computed from January 27, 1978, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jake Pavelka, 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
Jake’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6124907, 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 Josh Hallett at https://www.flickr.com/photos/hyku, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jake Pavelka at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
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Quick answers about Jake Pavelka’s chart
- How old is Jake Pavelka?
- Jake Pavelka is 48 years old, born January 27, 1978 in Dallas, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jake Pavelka?
- Jake Pavelka is an Aquarius: born January 27, 1978, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
- What is Jake Pavelka's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1978 birth.
- What time was Jake Pavelka 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 Jake Pavelka's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the January 27, 1978 birth date.
- What is Jake Pavelka's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 27, 1978 birth date.
- Where is Jake Pavelka's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jake Pavelka's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
