Jeff Prucher
Jeff Prucher (born December 21, 1971, Chicago, United States), aged 54, is an American author. Prucher's honours include Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
Jeff Prucher’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Jeff
Jeff Prucher’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, 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 2,155 American boys and 5 girls named Jeff in 1971: 140th among boys and 8,829th 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on F (6).
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
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1971, 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
The Hugo Award for Best Related Work came in 2008, when Jeff Prucher was 37.
Emmanuel Macron (1977) and Jane Fonda (1937) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work (2008)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Jeff, according to the stars
Core essence
Jeff is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Jeff is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
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 seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Jeff you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
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 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Jeff is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Jeff slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Jeff Prucher
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Algol, in Perseus, 88.8° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
The Moon, 20% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.
How unusual Jeff's chart is
Chart pattern score
70 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Sagittarius · Grand trine · T-square onto Sun
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 →Jeff Prucher at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Jeff Prucher's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 21, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Jeff Prucher was born on December 21, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Jeff Prucher's birth date, December 21, 1971, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Jeff’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jeff Prucher's date-only chart is Saturn trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jeff Prucher combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
Jeff’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Aquarius 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
stableSaturntrinePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
Jeff’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileMars1.0° to 1.6° orb
Jeff’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb
Jeff’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableSunsquareMars2.2° to 2.6° orb
stableSunsquarePluto2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn2.3° to 3.6° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.3° to 4.5° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.9° to 5.5° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter6.5° to 7.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 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.
⚷ ChironAries 9°21′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 22°41′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 8°42′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 28°21′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 22°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.9°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.6°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.8°
Jeff’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Jeff’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, 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.
Kite · Venus, Saturn, Pluto, MarsA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Pluto, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.6°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.1°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.8°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on December 21
- Emmanuel Macron1977
- Jane Fonda1937
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Mike ColterAmerican actor
- Julie DelpyFrench and American actress, director, screenwriter and singer
- Dexter FletcherEnglish actor and director
Other Sagittarius Pig charts
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Famous people with Life Path 6
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Jeff’s cards
Computed from December 21, 1971. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jeff’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19869073 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jeff Prucher.
Quick answers about Jeff Prucher’s chart
- How old is Jeff Prucher?
- Jeff Prucher is 54 years old, born December 21, 1971 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jeff Prucher?
- Jeff Prucher is a Sagittarius: born December 21, 1971, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Jeff Prucher's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 21, 1971 birth.
- What is Jeff Prucher's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jeff Prucher's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jeff Prucher's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jeff Prucher's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
