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Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips (born July 19, 1952, Buckhannon, United States), aged 74, is an American writer (born 1952). Phillips's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship and Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction.

Jayne Anne Phillips’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Jayne Anne Phillips’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Visionary

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Jayne in the U.S.?

#2837

US rank in 2025

~29,140

Americans share it since 1895

1957

its peak year

Jayne ranked 354th in 1952, the year of this birth, with 539 American girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jayne’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

3

Soul Urge · being heard

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

Jayne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 6

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus

Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1952, 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 Jayne apart

Jayne Anne Phillips took the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction in 1980, at 28.

West Virginia University shaped the training.

Wikipedia's editors put Jayne Anne Phillips under Writers from Buckhannon, West Virginia, Novelists from West Virginia and West Virginia University alumni.

Benedict Cumberbatch (1976) and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
West Virginia University
Awards
Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1980) and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2024)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
10

What the chart says

Jayne, according to the stars

Core essence

Jayne feels the room before entering it. The core of Jayne 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 Jayne, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

How Jayne wants to be loved

Jayne wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Jayne openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Jayne creates

How Jayne makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Jayne creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Jayne 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Jayne is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Jayne runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Jayne's birth date. Working below.

Where Jayne sits

Six lines

Jayne’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Jayne

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jayne

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

PrivateExpressive
Jayne

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jayne

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Jayne

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jayne

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

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

Jayne’s birth-night reference starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 77.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alphecca →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 23.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Buckhannon that night

Computed for 38.99°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Buckhannon at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.9° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.

From 39.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Buckhannon at all: they sit past the −51.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at new moon, 4% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 3° down.

How unusual Jayne's chart is

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all

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.

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Jayne Anne Phillips in 15 seconds

Cancer Sun

Hard shell, soft centre.

Jayne Anne Phillips's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 19, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Water Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Jayne Anne Phillips was born on July 19, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Jayne Anne Phillips's birth date, July 19, 1952, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Jayne’s chart

Jayne’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.8° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.7° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.6° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 4° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.1° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 5° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 5.6° orbSun in Cancer · 26°53′☉26°Moon in Cancer · 1°28′☽1°Mercury in Leo · 23°09′☿23°Venus in Leo · 3°43′♀3°Mars in Scorpio · 10°00′♂10°Jupiter in Taurus · 16°51′♃16°Saturn in Libra · 9°26′♄9°Uranus in Cancer · 15°01′♅15°Neptune in Libra · 19°02′♆19°Pluto in Leo · 20°25′♇20°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb

    Jayne’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus1.8° to 1.9° orb

    Jayne’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.4° to 3.1° orb

    Jayne’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupitersquarePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune3.7° to 4.5° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.0° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus4.8° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus5.6° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars5.9° to 6.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter6.0° to 6.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.7° to 7.0° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionJupiter6.7° to 7.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable0 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Jayne’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 8°24′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 29°36′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLibra 3°55′ (moves 0.75° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 19°42′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 12°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Venus 0.2°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 0.7°
  • Chiron square Saturn 1.0°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.5°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 2.7°
  • Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 2.9°

Jayne’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Uranus

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Jayne’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.

  • Sun quintile Saturn 0.5°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.3°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.4°
  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 2.2°

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Jayne’s cards

Computed from July 19, 1952. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Visionary

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jayne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4353602 (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 Frypie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jayne Anne Phillips at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

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Quick answers about Jayne Anne Phillips’s chart

How old is Jayne Anne Phillips?
Jayne Anne Phillips is 74 years old, born July 19, 1952 in Buckhannon, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jayne Anne Phillips?
Jayne Anne Phillips is a Cancer: born July 19, 1952, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is Jayne Anne Phillips's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 19, 1952 birth.
What is Jayne Anne Phillips's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Jayne Anne Phillips's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jayne Anne Phillips's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jayne Anne Phillips's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Uranus). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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