Jay Manuel
Jay Manuel (born August 14, 1972, Springfield, United States), aged 54, is a Canadian make-up artist. Manuel is best known for America's Next Top Model.
Jay Manuel’s zodiac sign is Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rat, with 
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Jay Manuel’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Jay in the U.S.?
#392
US rank in 2025
~198,132
Americans share it since 1880
1960
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Jay’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Jay apart
The same date carries Yoo Jae-suk. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
What the chart says
Jay, according to the stars
Core essence
Jay is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Jay is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Jay wants to be loved
Jay wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Jay gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Jay creates
How Jay makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Jay creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Jay is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Jay 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.
Computed from Jay's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jay sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
Jay Manuel's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 14, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Jay Manuel was born on August 14, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Jay Manuel's birth date, August 14, 1972, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Jay’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jay Manuel's date-only chart is Mars trine Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Earth.
- Jay Manuel combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Jay’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jay Manuel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Libra or Scorpio 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.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.8° to 1.5° orb
Jay’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquarePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
Jay’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.0° to 2.1° orb
Jay’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareNeptune2.4° to 3.0° orb
Jay’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileSaturn3.0° to 3.9° orb
Jay’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrineUranus3.1° orb
Jay’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileUranus4.1° to 4.5° orb
Jay’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussquarePluto6.0° to 6.8° orb
Jay’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMars7.6° to 8.0° orb
Jay’s core identity and drive act as one.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Jay’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 ℞Aries 17°06′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Jay may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresVirgo 22°41′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Jay caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 8°21′ (moves 0.37° 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. Jay is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 11°47′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Jay carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 19°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Jay is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Eros trine Venus 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.8°
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°).
Jay’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. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Jay is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Jay’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.
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.7°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jay Manuel, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Jay
Yoo Jae-suk was born on August 14, 1972 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Jay’s cards
Every card is computed from August 14, 1972, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jay Manuel, 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
Jay’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1336434, 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 Retaildesignguru, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jay Manuel at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
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 Jay Manuel.
Quick answers about Jay Manuel’s chart
- How old is Jay Manuel?
- Jay Manuel is 54 years old, born August 14, 1972 in Springfield, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jay Manuel?
- Jay Manuel is a Leo: born August 14, 1972, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rat.
- What is Jay Manuel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 14, 1972 birth.
- What time was Jay Manuel 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.
- How tall is Jay Manuel?
- Jay Manuel is 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Jay Manuel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 14, 1972 birth date.
- What is Jay Manuel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 14, 1972 birth date.
- Where is Jay Manuel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jay Manuel's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
