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Jan Sterling

Jan Sterling (born April 3, 1921, New York City, United States; died 2004), was an American actress. Sterling's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Jan Sterling’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Jan Sterling’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Visionary

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

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

#2731

US rank in 2025

~76,934

Americans share it since 1902

1956

its peak year

Jan ranked 1,743rd among girls and 1,945th among boys in 1921, the year of this birth, with 25 American girls and 18 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

6

Soul Urge · being needed

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

Jan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia

White · Crimson · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1921, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Jan apart

Jan Sterling took the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture in 1955, at 34.

The working life starts in 1948, at 27.

Cause of death is recorded as diabetes.

The family line: married John Merivale and Paul Douglas.

Wikipedia's editors put Jan Sterling under Deaths from diabetes in California, American expatriates in the United Kingdom and Actresses from New York City.

Marlon Brando (1924) and Jane Goodall (1934) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture (1955)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Working from
1948
Cause of death
diabetes
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
36

What the chart says

Jan, according to the stars

Core essence

Jan 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 Jan 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Jan needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Jan needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Jan wants to be loved

Jan wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Jan is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Jan creates

How Jan makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Jan creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Jan is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Jan is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Jan is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Jan's birth date. Working below.

Where Jan sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jan

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jan

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Jan

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jan

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

PracticalVisionary
Jan

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jan

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 Jan Sterling

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

Jan’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 84.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 31.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

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

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 84.9° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.

The Moon, 18% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 28° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States

The death is recorded at Woodland Hills, Los Angeles in 2004.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jan Sterling: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Jan's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

No Air planets · Venus retrograde · A leaning bowl

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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Jan Sterling in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

First through every door.

Jan Sterling's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 3, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Metal Rooster

Candid to a fault.

Jan Sterling was born on April 3, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 11

Intuition before evidence.

Jan Sterling's birth date, April 3, 1921, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Jan’s chart

Jan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.3° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.8° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.9° orbUranus flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.9° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.3° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.5° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.8° orbSun in Aries · 13°24′☉13°Moon in Aquarius · 19°42′☽19°Mercury in Pisces · 16°02′☿16°Venus in Taurus · 10°10′ · retrograde♀℞10°Mars in Taurus · 6°54′♂6°Jupiter in Virgo · 10°30′ · retrograde♃℞10°Saturn in Virgo · 19°45′ · retrograde♄℞19°Uranus in Pisces · 7°42′♅7°Neptune in Leo · 11°03′ · retrograde♆℞11°Pluto in Cancer · 6°50′♇6°

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

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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

  • stableMarssextilePluto0.0° to 0.4° orb

    Jan’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter0.3° orb

    Jan’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableMarssextileUranus0.5° to 1.1° orb

    Jan’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune1.8° to 2.8° orb

  • stableVenussextileUranus2.4° to 2.5° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.7° to 2.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars2.9° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.1° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter3.2° to 4.0° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto3.3° to 3.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 10°07′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 3°59′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 16°20′ (moves 0.52° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 22°51′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 29°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.9°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.8°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 2.9°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.9°

Jan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus8 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in Jan’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
  • Saturn quintile Pluto 0.9°
  • Mercury biquintile Neptune 1.0°

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Jan’s cards

Computed from April 3, 1921. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q259581 (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 Modern Screen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jan Sterling at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jan Sterling.

Quick answers about Jan Sterling’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jan Sterling?
Jan Sterling was an Aries: born April 3, 1921, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What was Jan Sterling's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 3, 1921 birth.
What was Jan Sterling's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Jan Sterling's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Jan Sterling's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jan Sterling's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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