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Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown (born April 14, 1976, United States), aged 50, is an American writer. Brown is best known for The Tradition. Brown's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, American Book Awards and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Jericho Brown’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Jericho Brown’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Pioneer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#886

US rank in 2025

~6,357

Americans share it since 1970

2025

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1976, Jericho came 3,006th, carried by 13 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jericho’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on J (1) and closes on O (6). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

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

Jericho’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy

White · Crimson · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1976, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Jericho apart

What keeps Jericho Brown in print: The Tradition.

The classrooms behind this chart: LSU New Orleans and Dillard University.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jericho Brown: LSU New Orleans alumni, LGBTQ people from Louisiana and Poets from Louisiana.

The same date carries Georgina Chapman. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Known for
The Tradition
Educated at
LSU New Orleans, Dillard University and University of Houston
Awards
American Book Awards (2009), Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) and MacArthur Fellows Program (2024)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
12

What the chart says

Jericho, according to the stars

Core essence

Jericho 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 Jericho 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.

How Jericho wants to be loved

Jericho wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Jericho creates

How Jericho 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. Jericho 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: Jericho is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Jericho is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jericho 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 Jericho's birth date. Working below.

Where Jericho sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jericho

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jericho

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Jericho

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jericho

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

PracticalVisionary
Jericho

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jericho

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Jericho’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 85.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 32.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over United States that night

Computed for 39.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at United States was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 85.5° up.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 39.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −50.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from United States on any night.

Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.

How unusual Jericho's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Mars

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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Jericho Brown at a glance

Aries Sun

First through every door.

Jericho Brown's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 14, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Fire Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Jericho Brown was born on April 14, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Jericho Brown's birth date, April 14, 1976, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Jericho’s chart

Jericho’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 6° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.4° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.1° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.3° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.1° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.1° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 3.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.8° orbSun in Aries · 24°54′☉24°Moon in Libra · 28°35′☽28°Mercury in Taurus · 8°37′☿8°Venus in Aries · 7°51′♀7°Mars in Cancer · 12°59′♂12°Jupiter in Taurus · 4°32′♃4°Saturn in Cancer · 26°19′♄26°Uranus in Scorpio · 5°34′ · retrograde♅℞5°Neptune in Sagittarius · 13°44′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Libra · 9°56′ · retrograde♇℞9°

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

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Lines drawn
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

  • stableSunsquareSaturn0.9° to 1.9° orb

    Jericho’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.9° to 1.2° orb

    Jericho’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto1.5° to 2.7° orb

    Jericho’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus2.1° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto2.8° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.3° to 4.9° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars4.8° to 5.5° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune5.3° to 6.5° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 13.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 14.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 27°30′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 20°24′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 3°36′ (moves 0.66° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 3°21′ (moves 0.23° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 18°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Saturn 1.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.2°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 2.2°
  • Chiron conjunction Sun 2.6°

Jericho’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars7 pts

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

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Jericho’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Venus, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars quincunx Neptune 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
  • Mercury biquintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.3°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 2.3°

Born the same day as Jericho

Georgina Chapman was born on April 14, 1976 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from United States, at 39.8°N, nothing below −50.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained

Jericho’s cards

Computed from April 14, 1976. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jericho’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15440076 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jericho Brown at Wikipedia and jerichobrown.com.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jericho Brown.

Quick answers about Jericho Brown’s chart

How old is Jericho Brown?
Jericho Brown is 50 years old, born April 14, 1976 in United States.
What zodiac sign is Jericho Brown?
Jericho Brown is an Aries: born April 14, 1976, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Jericho Brown's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 14, 1976 birth.
What is Jericho Brown's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Jericho Brown's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jericho Brown's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jericho Brown's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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