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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Jane
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
Of the names registered in 1941, Jane came 46th among girls and 1,351st among boys, carried by 5,090 American girls and 25 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jane’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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
The classrooms behind this chart: Hollins University and Brandeis University.
J. M. Coetzee (1940) and Tom Hiddleston (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Hollins University, Brandeis University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 1
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.
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 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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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Jane Gentry Vance
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lexington 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 Lexington that night
Computed for 38.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Lexington was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 82.6° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 38.0°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 −52.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 95% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Lexington, United States
- Lived in
- Roanoke · Chapel Hill
Wikidata records Roanoke and Chapel Hill as Jane Gentry Vance's home, against Lexington as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Versailles, Woodford County in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jane Gentry Vance: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Jane's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Jupiter
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 →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Cancer depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableSunsquareUranus1.1° to 2.1° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune2.5° to 3.2° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.6° to 3.9° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter4.3° to 5.4° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.7° to 5.9° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.0° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune5.6° to 6.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 26°54′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 22°07′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 12°56′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 7°48′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 27°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.7°
Jane’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Jane’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in United States
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- George SmithNobel prize winning US chemist
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- John C. MaloneAmerican billionaire businessman, landowner and philanthropist
- Dionne WarwickAmerican singer (born 1940)
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Born in Snake years
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- Fernanda TorresBrazilian actress and writer
Also born on February 9
- J. M. Coetzee1940
- Tom Hiddleston1981
- Sócrates1954
- Michael B. Jordan1987
- Bella Poarch1997
- Avan Jogia1992
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Mia WasikowskaAustralian actress
- Sebastian StanRomanian and American actor
- HalseyAmerican singer-songwriter
Other Aquarius Snake charts
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- Jake PavelkaAmerican pilot who appeared on four reality TV programs
- Chord OverstreetAmerican actor, singer and musician
- Maura TierneyAmerican actress
Other Steadfast Scholars
- Craig T. NelsonAmerican actor and comedian (born 1944)
- Melissa RycroftAmerican actress and singer
- Rachel PlattenAmerican singer, songwriter and author (born 1981)
- Catherine O'HaraCanadian-American actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
- William O. DappingAmerican journalist
- Ira B. Harkey Jr.American journalist
- John HohenbergAmerican journalist and academic
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Jane’s cards
Computed from February 9, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jane’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21032260 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Jane Gentry Vance's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jane Gentry Vance's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
