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Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner (born April 17, 1972, Houston, United States), aged 54, is an American actress. Garner is best known for Daredevil, 13 Going on 30 and Alias. Garner's honours include Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Jennifer Garner’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Jennifer Garner’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Pioneer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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 1972, 63,600 American girls and 190 boys were registered Jennifer — 1st among girls and 578th 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

4 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily

White · Crimson · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Jennifer apart

13 Going on 30, Alias and Daredevil. That is the work the name is attached to.

Study took Jennifer Garner to Denison University and George Washington High School.

Jennifer Garner was 23 when the work began in 1995.

On the family side, Jennifer Garner was born to Patricia Ann English and William John Garner, married Scott Foley and Ben Affleck and raised 3 children.

On Wikipedia the categories read Actresses from Charleston, West Virginia, Affleck family and Denison University alumni.

Victoria Beckham (1974) and J. P. Morgan (1837) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
13 Going on 30, Alias and Daredevil
Educated at
Denison University, George Washington High School and Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Awards
Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (2022)
Working from
1995
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English and American English
Wikipedia editions
85

What the chart says

Jennifer, according to the stars

Core essence

Jennifer leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Jennifer is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Jennifer processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Jennifer needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Jennifer wants to be loved

Jennifer wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Jennifer like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

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 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Jennifer is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Jennifer scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Jennifer

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jennifer

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

PrivateExpressive
Jennifer

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jennifer

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Jennifer

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jennifer

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jennifer Garner

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

Computed for 29.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Houston at 9 p.m. that evening: Algieba of Leo, within 9.9° of the exact zenith.

Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Houston sits at 29.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −60.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 25% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 26° below the horizon.

How unusual Jennifer's chart is

Chart pattern score

43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · No Water planets · 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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Jennifer Garner in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

First through every door.

Jennifer Garner's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 17, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Water Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Jennifer Garner was born on April 17, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 4

Structure is comfort.

Jennifer Garner's birth date, April 17, 1972, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Jennifer’s chart

Jennifer’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 29° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.3° orbSaturn faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.3° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.6° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.8° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.8° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.6° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 4° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 4.2° orbSun in Aries · 27°49′☉27°Moon in Gemini · 22°27′☽22°Mercury in Aries · 4°14′☿4°Venus in Gemini · 13°11′♀13°Mars in Gemini · 14°01′♂14°Jupiter in Capricorn · 8°15′♃8°Saturn in Gemini · 4°32′♄4°Uranus in Libra · 15°47′ · retrograde♅℞15°Neptune in Sagittarius · 4°48′ · retrograde♆℞4°Pluto in Virgo · 29°59′ · retrograde♇℞29°

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

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Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn0.2° to 0.4° orb

    Jennifer’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb

    Jennifer’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.4° to 0.7° orb

    Jennifer’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars0.7° to 1.0° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus1.4° to 2.1° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus2.1° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter3.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto4.1° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSaturntrinePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed0 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 14°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 11°30′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 17°54′ (moves 0.47° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 10°59′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 5°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.6°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 1.7°
  • Eros trine Uranus 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.3°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 2.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.7°

Jennifer’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars7 pts

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

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Jennifer’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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
  • Sun biquintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 1.2°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 2.2°

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Jennifer’s cards

Computed from April 17, 1972. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Pioneer

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

4 · Architect

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jennifer’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q172044 (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 Nan Palmero, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jennifer Garner at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jennifer Garner.

Quick answers about Jennifer Garner’s chart

How old is Jennifer Garner?
Jennifer Garner is 54 years old, born April 17, 1972 in Houston, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jennifer Garner?
Jennifer Garner is an Aries: born April 17, 1972, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Jennifer Garner's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 17, 1972 birth.
How tall is Jennifer Garner?
Jennifer Garner is 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Jennifer Garner's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Jennifer Garner's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jennifer Garner's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jennifer Garner's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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