Jeff MacNelly
Jeff MacNelly (born September 17, 1947, New York City, United States; died 2000), was an American editorial cartoonist. MacNelly is best remembered for Shoe. MacNelly's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, George Polk Award and Silver Reuben Editorial Cartoons Award.
Jeff MacNelly’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Jeff
Jeff MacNelly’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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 1,007 American boys named Jeff in 1947: 199th 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.
4
Expression · building what holds
11
Soul Urge · insight
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on J (1) and closes on F (6). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
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
2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
The record
What sets Jeff apart
Narendra Modi (1950) and Slayyyter (1996) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Jeff, according to the stars
Core essence
Jeff notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Jeff is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Jeff wants to be loved
Jeff 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 Jeff and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Jeff creates
How Jeff makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Jeff creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Jeff is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Jeff is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jeff does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Jeff MacNelly
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Fawaris, in Cygnus, 85.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon down and 13% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Jeff'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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Jeff MacNelly's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 17, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Jeff MacNelly was born on September 17, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Jeff MacNelly's birth date, September 17, 1947, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Jeff’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jeff MacNelly's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Jeff MacNelly combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Jeff’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 1.2° orb
Jeff’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.3° to 1.1° orb
Jeff’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenussquareUranus1.0° to 2.3° orb
Jeff’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineJupiter1.0° to 1.4° orb
stableSunsextileMars1.7° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsquareUranus1.7° to 2.6° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.7° to 3.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.5° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 2.5° to 15.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Jeff’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 7°17′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 8°44′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 19°56′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 0°38′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 25°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.0°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.4°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.9°
Jeff’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Jeff’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.
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.7°
More people like Jeff
Other comics artists
- Vaughn Bodē1941
- Phil Foglio1956
Born in United States
- Albert BrooksAmerican actor and comedian
- Karen Elliott HouseAmerican journalist and former executive
- Don HenleyAmerican rock musician
- David MametAmerican playwright, filmmaker and author (born 1947)
- Stan KroenkeAmerican businessman
- Joe WalshAmerican rock musician
More charts like Jeff’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Peter StormareSwedish actor, director and musician
- Tom SkerrittAmerican actor
- Fred MacMurrayAmerican actor
Born in Pig years
- Chris HemsworthAustralian actor
- Dua LipaBritish singer-songwriter
- Donna StricklandCanadian physicist, Nobel laurate
Also born on September 17
- Narendra Modi1950
- Slayyyter1996
- Chuck Grassley1933
- Danielle Brooks1989
- Nate Berkus1971
- Andrew East1991
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Nicolás TagliaficoArgentine association football player
- Kō ItakuraJapanese footballer (born 1997)
- Philipp LienhartAustrian association football player (born 1996)
Other Virgo Pig charts
- Elizabeth A. FennAmerican historian and professor
- Paul Herman BuckAmerican historian
- Elizabeth BearAmerican writer
- Joseph PevneyAmerican actor and director
Other Steadfast Healers
- Virginia Roberts Giuffreadvocate for sex trafficking victims
- Jesse McCartneyAmerican singer and actor
- Tia MowryAmerican actress (born 1978)
- Sutton StrackeAmerican socialite and television personality
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Robert AramayoEnglish actor (b. 1992)
- Cecil B. DeMilleAmerican film director, producer and actor
- Patricia ClarksonAmerican actress
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Jeff’s cards
Computed from September 17, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jeff’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1686334 (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.
The same Jeff MacNelly at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jeff MacNelly.
Quick answers about Jeff MacNelly’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jeff MacNelly?
- Jeff MacNelly was a Virgo: born September 17, 1947, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Jeff MacNelly's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 17, 1947 birth.
- What was Jeff MacNelly's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jeff MacNelly's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jeff MacNelly's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jeff MacNelly's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
