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Jennifer Tilly

Jennifer Tilly (born Jennifer Ellen Chan; September 16, 1958, Harbor City, United States, 01:46), aged 68, is an American actress. Notable films include Modern Family, Liar Liar and Stuart Little. Tilly's honours include Theatre World Award.

Jennifer Tilly’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Jennifer Tilly’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Healer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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

Of the names registered in 1958, Jennifer came 81st among girls and 2,313th among boys, carried by 5,882 American girls and 13 boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jennifer’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Jennifer Ellen Chan, not the name they published under.

2

Expression · connecting people

3

Soul Urge · being heard

8

Personality · capable, in charge

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

3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta

The record

What sets Jennifer apart

Jennifer Tilly took the Theatre World Award in 1993, at 35.

Stephens College and Belmont Secondary School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1983, at 25.

The family line: married Sam Simon.

Lee Kuan Yew (1923) and Amy Poehler (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Stephens College and Belmont Secondary School
Awards
Theatre World Award (1993)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Working from
1983
Wikipedia editions
47

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 feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Jennifer needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Jennifer wants to be loved

Jennifer wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Jennifer and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Jennifer creates

How Jennifer makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Jennifer creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Jennifer is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Jennifer is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Jennifer is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Jennifer

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jennifer

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Jennifer Tilly

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Harbor City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Read from the sky above Harbor City at 01:46, Jennifer Tilly’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Harbor City that night

Computed for 33.79°N, at the documented birth time.

Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over Harbor City at the birth hour, 82.6° above the horizon in Andromeda.

Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 33.8°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 −56.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 12% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 51° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Jennifer Ellen Chan
Known as
Jennifer Tilly
Born in
Harbor City, United States

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What Jennifer's birth time unlocks

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Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 申.

Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 1/3

Emotional authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

69 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Virgo · 3-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Air 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Virgo Sun

Fixes everything except the need to.

Jennifer Tilly's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.

What Virgo means →

Earth Dog

The first call when it's bad.

Jennifer Tilly was born on September 16, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Jennifer Tilly's birth date, September 16, 1958, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Jennifer’s chart

Jennifer’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.3° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.9° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 1.4° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.4° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.4° orbSun in Virgo · 22°59′ · house 3☉22°Moon in Scorpio · 3°03′ · house 5☽3°Mercury in Virgo · 7°31′ · house 3☿7°Venus in Virgo · 8°28′ · house 3♀8°Mars in Taurus · 28°39′ · house 11♂28°Jupiter in Scorpio · 1°41′ · house 5♃1°Saturn in Sagittarius · 19°32′ · house 6♄19°Uranus in Leo · 14°28′ · house 2♅14°Neptune in Scorpio · 3°03′ · house 5♆3°Pluto in Virgo · 2°44′ · house 3♇2°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCnc 21°41′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCap 21°41′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAri 8°43′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLib 8°43′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCancer
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MoonconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 0.0° orb

    Jennifer’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 0.3° orb

    Jennifer’s feelings open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.3° orb

    Jennifer’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 0.9° orb

  • JupitersextilePlutoapplying · 1.1° orb

  • MoonconjunctionJupiterseparating · 1.4° orb

  • JupiterconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 1.4° orb

  • SunsquareSaturnseparating · 3.4° orb

  • MarssquarePlutoapplying · 4.1° orb

  • MoonsextileMercuryapplying · 4.5° orb

  • MercurysextileNeptuneseparating · 4.5° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionPlutoseparating · 4.8° orb

  • SaturntrineUranusapplying · 5.1° orb

  • SuntrineMarsapplying · 5.7° orb

  • VenusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 5.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 18°31′ · House 8

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 24°05′ · House 3

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 28°36′ · House 9

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 21°11′ · House 12

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 23°09′ · House 10

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Mars 0.1°
  • Chiron sextile Saturn 1.0°
  • Ceres conjunction Sun 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Ascendant 1.5°
  • Hygiea opposition Saturn 1.7°
  • Hygiea square Sun 1.8°
  • Ceres sextile Ascendant 2.4°

Jennifer’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury12 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto12 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon, Jupiter, Neptune; 6 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon7 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Cancer; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Jennifer’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, 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.
  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Moon, 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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Moon semi-square Saturn 1.5°
  • Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.5°

Jennifer’s houses

Jennifer’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CancerMoon in Scorpio, house 5emptyself, body, how you arrive
2LeoSun in Virgo, house 3Uranusmoney, possessions, self-worth
3VirgoMercury in Virgo, house 3Sun, Mercury, Venus, Plutomind, siblings, the local world
4LibraVenus in Virgo, house 3emptyhome, family, roots
5ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 3Moon, Jupiter, Neptunecreativity, romance, play
6SagittariusJupiter in Scorpio, house 5Saturnwork, habits, health
7CapricornSaturn in Sagittarius, house 6emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AquariusUranus in Leo, house 2emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 5emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AriesMars in Taurus, house 11emptycareer, reputation, public life
11TaurusVenus in Virgo, house 3Marsfriends, community, the future
12GeminiMercury in Virgo, house 3emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Jennifer’s cards

Computed from September 16, 1958. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jennifer’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q495549 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jennifer Tilly at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Tilly.

Quick answers about Jennifer Tilly’s chart

How old is Jennifer Tilly?
Jennifer Tilly is 68 years old, born September 16, 1958 in Harbor City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jennifer Tilly?
Jennifer Tilly is a Virgo: born September 16, 1958, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What is Jennifer Tilly's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 16, 1958 birth.
What time was Jennifer Tilly born?
01:46 local time in Harbor City, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Jennifer Tilly's rising sign?
Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 01:46 birth time in Harbor City, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Jennifer Tilly?
Jennifer Tilly is 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Jennifer Tilly's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Jennifer Tilly's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 18°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jennifer Tilly's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 23°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jennifer Tilly's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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