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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960, Detroit, United States), aged 66, is a Novelist, short story writer, academic. Eugenides's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, grand prix de l'héroïne Madame Figaro du roman étranger and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Seeker

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#552

US rank in 2025

~983,099

Americans share it since 1885

1962

its peak year

Jeffrey ranked 14th among boys and 1,191st among girls in 1960, the year of this birth, with 28,841 American boys and 84 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jeffrey’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

6

Soul Urge · being needed

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on J (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Jeffrey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver

The record

What sets Jeffrey apart

Marjorie Estiano (1982) and Warren Zaïre-Emery (2006) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Jeffrey, according to the stars

Core essence

Jeffrey feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Jeffrey is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Jeffrey is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Jeffrey needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Jeffrey wants to be loved

Jeffrey wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Jeffrey be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Jeffrey creates

How Jeffrey makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Jeffrey creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Jeffrey is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Jeffrey is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Jeffrey goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Jeffrey's birth date. Working below.

Where Jeffrey sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jeffrey

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jeffrey

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

PrivateExpressive
Jeffrey

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jeffrey

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Jeffrey

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jeffrey

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night

Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Castor stood nearest the zenith over Detroit at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.6° above the horizon in Gemini.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 27° below the horizon, Moon up and 82% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Jeffrey's chart is

Chart pattern score

38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Uranus · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 8, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Metal Rat

Quick, clever, never stuck.

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides was born on March 8, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 9

Gives without keeping score.

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides's birth date, March 8, 1960, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Jeffrey’s chart

Jeffrey’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Mercury · Trine, 1.3° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.7° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.2° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.1° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.6° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.4° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 5.5° orbSun in Pisces · 18°09′☉18°Moon in Cancer · 23°41′☽23°Mercury in Pisces · 22°22′ · retrograde☿℞22°Venus in Aquarius · 20°56′♀20°Mars in Aquarius · 11°06′♂11°Jupiter in Capricorn · 0°56′♃0°Saturn in Capricorn · 16°28′♄16°Uranus in Leo · 17°50′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Scorpio · 8°56′ · retrograde♆℞8°Pluto in Virgo · 4°34′ · retrograde♇℞4°

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

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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

  • stableSunsextileSaturn1.2° to 2.1° orb

    Jeffrey’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune1.8° to 2.6° orb

    Jeffrey’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus2.5° to 3.7° orb

    Jeffrey’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 5.1° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto3.6° to 3.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.4° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus6.3° to 7.1° orb

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 1.2° to 13.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 28°53′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 5°34′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 25°56′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 19°04′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 23°14′ (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 square Mercury 0.9°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.2°
  • Hygiea opposition Venus 1.9°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.3°

Jeffrey’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Jeffrey’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Uranus · Sun, Saturn, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun quincunx Uranus 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.4°
  • Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.5°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°

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Jeffrey’s cards

Computed from March 8, 1960. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jeffrey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q357108 (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 Rodrigo Fernandez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Jeffrey Kent Eugenides’s chart

How old is Jeffrey Kent Eugenides?
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is 66 years old, born March 8, 1960 in Detroit, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jeffrey Kent Eugenides?
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is a Pisces: born March 8, 1960, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Jeffrey Kent Eugenides's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 8, 1960 birth.
What is Jeffrey Kent Eugenides's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Jeffrey Kent Eugenides's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jeffrey Kent Eugenides's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jeffrey Kent Eugenides's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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