Jane Espenson
Jane Espenson (born July 14, 1964, Ames, United States), aged 62, is an American television writer and producer. Espenson's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form and Inkpot Award.
Jane Espenson’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Jane
Jane Espenson’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Jane in the U.S.?
#221
US rank in 2025
~381,009
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1964, Jane came 93rd among girls and 3,430th among boys, carried by 4,567 American girls and 7 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jane’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jane’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1964, 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 Jane apart
Jane Espenson took the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form in 2012, at 48.
Ames High School and University of California, Berkeley shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1994, at 30.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jane Espenson: Artists from Ames, Iowa, Ames High School alumni and American women comics writers.
Conor McGregor (1988) and Angelique Kidjo (1960) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Ames High School and University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (2012) and Inkpot Award (2014)
- Working from
- 1994
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 18
What the chart says
Jane, according to the stars
Core essence
Jane feels the room before entering it. The core of Jane is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Jane, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Jane wants to be loved
Jane wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Jane like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Jane creates
How Jane makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Jane builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Jane 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Jane is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Jane scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Jane's birth date. Working below.
Where Jane sits
Six lines
Jane’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Jane Espenson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ames 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 Ames that night
Computed for 42.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Ames at 9 p.m. that evening, 74.5° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 36% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 2° down.
How unusual Jane's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →Jane Espenson at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Jane Espenson's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 14, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Jane Espenson was born on July 14, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Jane Espenson's birth date, July 14, 1964, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Jane’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jane Espenson's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jane Espenson combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Jane’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Virgo or Libra 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
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.2° to 1.7° orb
Jane’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.4° to 2.2° orb
Jane’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb
Jane’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.8° to 5.6° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.2° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto7.9° to 8.0° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 2.9° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 3.5° to 14.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 4.2° to 17.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 4.3° to 17.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Jane’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 18°33′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 25°23′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 3°32′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 24°29′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 20°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.3°
- Chiron square Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.9°
- Chiron square Venus 2.0°
Jane’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Jane’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.
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
More people like Jane
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Born in United States
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- Chris CornellAmerican musician
- Boris JohnsonPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
- Christian W.E. HaubGerman businessman (born 1964)
- Jim YardleyAmerican journalist
More charts like Jane’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Sofia FranklynAmerican podcast host
- Jaclyn HillAmerican beauty YouTuber
- Madeline ArgyEnglish media personality
Born in Dragon years
- Ayn RandRussian-born American writer and public philosopher
- Russell CroweNew Zealand actor
- Keanu ReevesCanadian actor and musician
Also born on July 14
- Conor McGregor1988
- Angelique Kidjo1960
- Howard Lutnick1961
- Neal Mohan1972
- Shiv Nadar1945
- Harrison Butker1995
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Ritsu DōanJapanese association football player
- Patrick PentzAustrian association football player
- Romelu LukakuBelgian footballer (born 1993)
Other Cancer Dragon charts
- Vinícius JúniorBrazilian association football player
- Chris CornellAmerican musician
- Winston ReidNew Zealand association football player
- Elsa PatakySpanish model and actress
Other Evergreen Pioneers
- Viktor KharitoninRussian billionaire businessman
- Jo Hyeon-junsouth Korean businessman- popular known as: Cho Hyun-joon
- Dinara NazarbayevaKazakhstani businesswoman
- Bidzina IvanishviliGeorgian billionaire and politician (born 1956)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Yara ShahidiAmerican actress
- TemsNigerian singer-songwriter
- Lisa LopesAmerican singer and rapper
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Jane’s cards
Computed from July 14, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jane’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q289973 (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 Ravenu, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jane Espenson at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jane Espenson.
Quick answers about Jane Espenson’s chart
- How old is Jane Espenson?
- Jane Espenson is 62 years old, born July 14, 1964 in Ames, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jane Espenson?
- Jane Espenson is a Cancer: born July 14, 1964, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Jane Espenson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 14, 1964 birth.
- What is Jane Espenson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jane Espenson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jane Espenson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jane Espenson's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
