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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Horse, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Jeff’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jeff sits
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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.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Jeff Buckley's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. 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 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
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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
Jeff’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SaturntrineNeptuneapplying · 0.9° orb
Jeff’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MarsconjunctionPlutoseparating · 1.0° orb
Jeff’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 1.5° orb
Jeff’s mind and imagination act as one.
MarsoppositionSaturnapplying · 1.6° orb
Jeff’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
UranussextileNeptuneapplying · 1.6° orb
Jeff’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonoppositionJupiterseparating · 1.7° orb
Jeff’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.7° orb
Jeff’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 1.9° orb
Jeff’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunsextileUranusseparating · 1.9° orb
Jeff’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
MercurysextileMarsapplying · 2.2° orb
Jeff’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 2.3° orb
Jeff’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MarsconjunctionUranusapplying · 2.3° orb
Jeff’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SuntrineSaturnseparating · 2.5° orb
Jeff’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SaturnoppositionPlutoapplying · 2.7° orb
Jeff’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 3.2° orb
Jeff’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 3.3° orb
Jeff’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SunconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 3.4° orb
Jeff’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SunsextileMarsseparating · 4.1° orb
Jeff’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
VenussextileUranusseparating · 4.2° orb
Jeff’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
MercuryconjunctionVenusseparating · 4.3° orb
Jeff’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
VenustrineSaturnseparating · 4.8° orb
Jeff’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
VenusconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 5.8° orb
Jeff’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
VenustrineJupiterapplying · 6.7° orb
Jeff’s affections flow straight into their growth.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 21°46′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Jeff absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 6°18′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Jeff is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosSagittarius 15°16′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Jeff attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 20°33′ · House 4
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 Jeff carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 25°41′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Jeff is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- 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°
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°).
Jeff’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Jeff is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Jeff’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
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 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 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
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| 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 with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Jeff’s cards
Every card is computed from November 17, 1966, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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 data comes from
Jeff’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q215855, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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.
The same Jeff Buckley at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Horse.
- 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 from the November 17, 1966 birth date.
- What was Jeff Buckley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 21°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 17, 1966 birth time.
- 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.
