Jane Gentry Vance
Jane Gentry Vance (born February 9, 1941, Lexington, United States; died 2014), was an American poet and college professor from Kentucky. Vance served as poet laureate.
Jane Gentry Vance’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Snake, with 
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Jane Gentry Vance’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 Jane in the U.S.?
#221
US rank in 2025
~381,009
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Jane’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Jane, according to the stars
Core essence
Jane is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Jane 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, Jane is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Jane needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Jane wants to be loved
Jane 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 Jane be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Jane creates
How Jane makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Jane creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Jane 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Jane 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Jane has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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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The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Jane Gentry Vance's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 9, 1941, 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.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Jane Gentry Vance was born on February 9, 1941, which falls in a Metal 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 8Power, and the bill for it.
Jane Gentry Vance's birth date, February 9, 1941, 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 Jane’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jane Gentry Vance's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jane Gentry Vance 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.
Jane’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jane Gentry Vance, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Cancer 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.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Jane’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb
Jane’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.0° to 1.3° orb
Jane’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.4° orb
Jane’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareUranus1.1° to 2.1° orb
Jane’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareNeptune2.5° to 3.2° orb
Jane’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileMars3.6° to 3.9° orb
Jane’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenussquareJupiter4.3° to 5.4° orb
Jane’s affections grind against their growth.
stableVenussquareSaturn4.7° to 5.9° orb
Jane’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.0° orb
Jane’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquarePluto5.5° to 5.6° orb
Jane’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableVenustrineNeptune5.6° to 6.9° orb
Jane’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Jane’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 26°54′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Jane is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 22°07′ (moves 0.34° 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. Jane is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosPisces 12°56′ (moves 0.65° 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. Jane is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAries 7°48′ (moves 0.29° 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 Jane feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 27°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Jane carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.7°
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°).
Jane’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Jane is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Jane’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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Pluto, SaturnAn 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 Pluto 0.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.6°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.0°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.4°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jane Gentry Vance, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Jane’s cards
Every card is computed from February 9, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jane Gentry Vance, 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
Jane’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21032260, 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.
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 Jane Gentry Vance.
Quick answers about Jane Gentry Vance’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jane Gentry Vance?
- Jane Gentry Vance was an Aquarius: born February 9, 1941, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
- What was Jane Gentry Vance's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 9, 1941 birth.
- What time was Jane Gentry Vance 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 was Jane Gentry Vance's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the February 9, 1941 birth date.
- What was Jane Gentry Vance's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 9, 1941 birth date.
- Where was Jane Gentry Vance's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jane Gentry Vance's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
