Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962, Chicago, United States), aged 64, is an American novelist, short story writer. Egan is best known for A Visit from the Goon Squad. Egan's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Jennifer Egan’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Jennifer
Jennifer Egan’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Jennifer in the U.S.?
#586
US rank in 2025
~1,476,540
Americans share it since 1919
1972
its peak year
In 1962, 10,977 American girls and 24 boys were registered Jennifer — 41st among girls and 1,645th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jennifer’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on J (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jennifer’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
The record
What sets Jennifer apart
Evan Rachel Wood (1987) and Ariarne Titmus (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Jennifer, according to the stars
Core essence
Jennifer 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 Jennifer is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Jennifer is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Jennifer needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Jennifer wants to be loved
Jennifer 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 Jennifer even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Jennifer creates
How Jennifer makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Jennifer creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Jennifer is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Jennifer is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jennifer 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 Jennifer's birth date. Working below.
Where Jennifer sits
Six lines
Jennifer’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Jennifer Egan
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.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 5.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
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, 58% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 19° below the horizon.
How unusual Jennifer's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine · No Fire planets
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 SunSees the typo from across the room.
Jennifer Egan's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 7, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Tiger
Water TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Jennifer Egan was born on September 7, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Jennifer Egan's birth date, September 7, 1962, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Jennifer’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jennifer Egan's date-only chart is Mars sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jennifer Egan combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Jennifer’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Sagittarius 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
stableMarssextilePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb
Jennifer’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareMars0.7° to 1.2° orb
Jennifer’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileUranus0.7° to 1.6° orb
Jennifer’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.8° to 1.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune2.8° to 3.8° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter3.1° to 3.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionPluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.1° to 5.0° orb
stableSunsextileMars4.2° to 4.5° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.4° to 5.4° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.4° to 4.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Jennifer’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 8°11′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 9°54′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 12°30′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 27°38′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 4°57′ (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 Saturn 0.6°
- Eros square Neptune 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.4°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.9°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.0°
Jennifer’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Jennifer’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Uranus, PlutoThree 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 · Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
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More charts like Jennifer’s
Fellow Virgo suns
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Born in Tiger years
- Paul SalopekAmerican newspaper editor
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- Bernard MalamudAmerican author
Also born on September 7
- Evan Rachel Wood1987
- Ariarne Titmus2000
- Miniminter1992
- Gracie Abrams1999
- Angie Everhart1969
- Shannon Elizabeth1973
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- JunChinese actor, singer, model and dancer
- MingyuSouth Korean singer and rapper
- JeonghanSouth Korean singer
Other Virgo Tiger charts
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- Amy MadiganAmerican actress
- James A. Van AllenAmerican astrophysicist
- Jean-Pierre SerreFrench mathematician
Other Steadfast Seekers
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- Kevin DotsonAmerican football offensive guard
- Jarrett AllenAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
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Famous people with Life Path 7
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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Jennifer’s cards
Computed from September 7, 1962. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jennifer’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q264283 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jennifer Egan at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jennifer Egan.
Quick answers about Jennifer Egan’s chart
- How old is Jennifer Egan?
- Jennifer Egan is 64 years old, born September 7, 1962 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jennifer Egan?
- Jennifer Egan is a Virgo: born September 7, 1962, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Jennifer Egan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 7, 1962 birth.
- What is Jennifer Egan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jennifer Egan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jennifer Egan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jennifer Egan's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
