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Jay Norwood Darling

Jay Norwood Darling (born October 21, 1876, Norwood, United States; died 1962), was an American editorial cartoonist. Darling's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, Audubon Medal and Aldo Leopold Award.

Jay Norwood Darling’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Jay Norwood Darling’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Strategist

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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

8 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

Amber · Blush · Flame orange

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Jay, according to the stars

Core essence

Jay makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Jay is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

The vibe

Underneath, Jay is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Jay needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Jay wants to be loved

Jay wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Jay and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Jay creates

How Jay makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Jay creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Jay 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Jay fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Jay's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Jay sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Jay

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jay

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

PrivateExpressive
Jay

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jay

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

PracticalVisionary
Jay

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jay

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jay Norwood Darling

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

Jay’s birth-night reference starCaphyellow-white · CassiopeiaCaph, in Cassiopeia. A yellow-white star, 73.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Caph →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 28.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

If you only read one paragraph

Libra Sun

Makes the peace, keeps the peace.

Jay Norwood Darling's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 21, 1876, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.

Fire Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Jay Norwood Darling was born on October 21, 1876, which falls in a Fire 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 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Jay Norwood Darling's birth date, October 21, 1876, 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 Jay’s chart

Jay’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Jay Norwood Darling, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 0° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.7° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.8° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.9° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 4.6° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 4.7° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.7° orbSun in Libra · 28°41′☉28°Moon in Sagittarius · 19°22′☽19°Mercury in Libra · 13°38′☿13°Venus in Virgo · 14°38′♀14°Mars in Libra · 5°01′♂5°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 3°20′♃3°Saturn in Pisces · 1°32′ · retrograde♄℞1°Uranus in Leo · 24°02′♅24°Neptune in Taurus · 4°03′ · retrograde♆℞4°Pluto in Taurus · 24°03′ · retrograde♇℞24°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableUranussquarePluto0.0° orb

    Jay’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarssextileJupiter1.5° to 1.9° orb

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

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.7° to 1.9° orb

    Jay’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn2.4° to 3.4° orb

    Jay’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.5° orb

    Jay’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune4.9° to 5.9° orb

    Jay’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus7.5° orb

    Jay’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 3.8° to 15.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileUranusorb from 4.2° to 5.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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 27°56′ (moves 0.05° 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.

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 3°13′ (moves 0.39° 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. Jay is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 4°37′ (moves 0.76° over the day)

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

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Jay is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 20°08′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Jay is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 20°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Jay is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for 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.

  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.1°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 0.6°
  • Chiron opposition Sun 0.8°
  • Ceres square Saturn 1.7°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 1.8°

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. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Pluto

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    4 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Jay 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 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, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Neptune · Mars, Jupiter, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

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.

  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 1.0°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jay Norwood Darling, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Jay’s cards

Every card is computed from October 21, 1876, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Star

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Strategist

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Jay Norwood Darling, 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 Q6166984, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jay Norwood Darling at Wikipedia.

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.

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Quick answers about Jay Norwood Darling’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jay Norwood Darling?
Jay Norwood Darling was a Libra: born October 21, 1876, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
What was Jay Norwood Darling's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 21, 1876 birth.
What time was Jay Norwood Darling 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 Jay Norwood Darling's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the October 21, 1876 birth date.
What was Jay Norwood Darling's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 21, 1876 birth date.
Where was Jay Norwood Darling's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jay Norwood Darling's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Pluto). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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