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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Tiger, with 
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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 1880
1972
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Jennifer’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jennifer 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 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.
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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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Jennifer Egan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Jennifer’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
Jennifer’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileNeptune2.8° to 3.8° orb
Jennifer’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineJupiter3.1° to 3.8° orb
Jennifer’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
Jennifer’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.1° to 5.0° orb
Jennifer’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextileMars4.2° to 4.5° orb
Jennifer’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenussquareSaturn4.4° to 5.4° orb
Jennifer’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.4° to 4.6° orb
Jennifer’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 8°11′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
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 Jennifer absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLeo 9°54′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Jennifer is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosLeo 12°30′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Jennifer loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 27°38′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Jennifer is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 4°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Jennifer that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
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°).
Jennifer’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Jennifer is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Jennifer’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 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 excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jennifer Egan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Jennifer’s cards
Every card is computed from September 7, 1962, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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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
No birth time is on public record for Jennifer Egan, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Jennifer’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q264283, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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.
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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Tiger.
- 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 time was Jennifer Egan born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Jennifer Egan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the September 7, 1962 birth date.
- What is Jennifer Egan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 7, 1962 birth date.
- 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.
