Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley (born November 17, 1966, Anaheim, United States, 22:49; died 1997), was an American musician. Best-known releases include Grace, Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk and Live at Sin-é.
Jeff Buckley’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Horse, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Jeff
Jeff Buckley’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Architect
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Jeff in the U.S.?
#3342
US rank in 2025
~120,502
Americans share it since 1880
1961
its peak year
The SSA recorded 4,387 American boys and 11 girls named Jeff in 1966: 72nd among boys and 4,056th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jeff’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on J (1) and closes on F (6). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jeff’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Crimson · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1966, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Jeff apart
Study took Jeff Buckley to Loara High School and Musicians Institute.
Jeff Buckley was 24 when the work began in 1990.
Cause of death is recorded as drowning.
Jeff Buckley was born to Timothy Buckley.
Wikipedia files Jeff Buckley under 1990s missing person cases, Formerly missing American people and Deaths by drowning in Tennessee.
Sophie Marceau shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Loara High School and Musicians Institute
- Instruments
- saxophone, harmonica, guitar and sitar
- Working from
- 1990
- Cause of death
- drowning
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 52
What the chart says
Jeff, according to the stars
Core essence
Jeff does not do surface. The core of Jeff is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Jeff is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Jeff needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Jeff needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Jeff wants to be loved
Jeff wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Jeff even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Jeff creates
How Jeff makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Jeff creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Jeff is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Jeff 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.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Jeff channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Jeff's birth date. Working below.
Where Jeff sits
Six lines
Jeff’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Jeff Buckley
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Anaheim on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Anaheim at 22:49, Jeff Buckley’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Anaheim that night
Computed for 33.84°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Anaheim at the birth hour: Algol of Perseus, within 8.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
Anaheim sits at 33.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 34% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 72° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Anaheim, United States
The death is recorded at Memphis, Shelby County in 1997.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Jeff's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Debater 巨門 in 子
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Relationships
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4
Emotional authority · Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Scorpio
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.
Score your own chart →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Jeff Buckley's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What Scorpio means →Fire Horse
Fire HorseHappiest halfway there.
Jeff Buckley was born on November 17, 1966, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Jeff Buckley's birth date, November 17, 1966, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Jeff’s chart
- Six of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Jeff Buckley's timed chart: Sun in the 4th house, Moon in the 7th house, Mercury in the 4th house, Venus in the 4th house, Jupiter in the 1st house and Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Jeff Buckley's timed chart is Mercury sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Jeff Buckley combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Architect.
Jeff’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercurysextileUranusseparating · 0.1° orb
Jeff’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercurytrineSaturnapplying · 0.6° orb
Jeff’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
SaturnoppositionUranusseparating · 0.6° orb
Jeff’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
MarssextileNeptuneapplying · 0.7° orb
SaturntrineNeptuneapplying · 0.9° orb
MarsconjunctionPlutoseparating · 1.0° orb
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 1.5° orb
MarsoppositionSaturnapplying · 1.6° orb
UranussextileNeptuneapplying · 1.6° orb
MoonoppositionJupiterseparating · 1.7° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.7° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 1.9° orb
SunsextileUranusseparating · 1.9° orb
MercurysextileMarsapplying · 2.2° orb
SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 2.3° orb
MarsconjunctionUranusapplying · 2.3° orb
SuntrineSaturnseparating · 2.5° orb
SaturnoppositionPlutoapplying · 2.7° orb
MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 3.2° orb
UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.3° orb
SunconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 3.4° orb
SunsextileMarsseparating · 4.1° orb
VenussextileUranusseparating · 4.2° orb
MercuryconjunctionVenusseparating · 4.3° orb
VenustrineSaturnseparating · 4.8° orb
VenusconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 5.8° orb
VenustrineJupiterapplying · 6.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Jeff’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 21°46′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 6°18′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 15°16′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 20°33′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 25°41′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.2°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.3°
- Chiron opposition Mars 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.8°
- Chiron conjunction Saturn 1.2°
- Hygiea square Ascendant 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 1.5°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.8°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 2.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 3.0°
Jeff’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun11 pts
rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Jupiter; angular in the fourth house; 6 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury11 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the fourth house; 7 major aspects
Configurations in Jeff’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Moon sesquiquadrate Mars 0.2°
- Moon quintile Mercury 0.6°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Sun quintile Moon 1.4°
- Moon semi-square Saturn 1.8°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.9°
Jeff’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Sun in Scorpio, house 4 | Jupiter | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Virgo | Mercury in Scorpio, house 4 | Mars, Uranus, Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Libra | Venus in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 2 | Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 1 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Capricorn | Saturn in Pisces, house 8 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 2 | Moon | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 4 | Saturn | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aries | Mars in Virgo, house 2 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Taurus | Venus in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Gemini | Mercury in Scorpio, house 4 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Cancer | Moon in Aquarius, house 7 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Jeff
Sophie Marceau was born on November 17, 1966 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Anaheim sits at 33.8°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Jeff’s cards
Computed from November 17, 1966. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jeff’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q215855 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
The same Jeff Buckley at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jeff Buckley.
Quick answers about Jeff Buckley’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jeff Buckley?
- Jeff Buckley was a Scorpio: born November 17, 1966, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
- What was Jeff Buckley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 17, 1966 birth.
- What time was Jeff Buckley born?
- 22:49 local time in Anaheim, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Jeff Buckley's rising sign?
- Leo rising, calculated from the documented 22:49 birth time in Anaheim, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Jeff Buckley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jeff Buckley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jeff Buckley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 25°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jeff Buckley's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
