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Jerry Bock

Jerry Bock (born November 23, 1928, New Haven, United States; died 2010), was an American theatre composer. Bock is best remembered for If I Were a Rich Man, She Loves Me and Fiddler on the Roof. Bock's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Musical and Tony Award for Best Original Score.

Jerry Bock’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Jerry Bock’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Seeker

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

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

#907

US rank in 2025

~632,416

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1928, Jerry came 79th among boys and 402nd among girls, carried by 2,588 American boys and 281 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jerry’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

11

Soul Urge · insight

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on J (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 9: tact against empathy.

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

Jerry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Rose-gold · Terracotta

The record

What sets Jerry apart

Vincent Cassel (1966) and Gwynne Shotwell (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Jerry, according to the stars

Core essence

Jerry is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Jerry is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Jerry runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Jerry needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Jerry wants to be loved

Jerry wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Jerry you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Jerry creates

How Jerry makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Jerry creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Jerry 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Jerry is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

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

Where Jerry sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jerry

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jerry

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

PrivateExpressive
Jerry

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jerry

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

PracticalVisionary
Jerry

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jerry

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jerry Bock

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

Jerry’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 83.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 48.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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

The sky over New Haven that night

Computed for 41.31°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at New Haven at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 6.6° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 41.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −48.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New Haven on any night.

The Moon, 85% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.

How unusual Jerry's chart is

Chart pattern score

65 / 100 · Unusual

Grand trine · T-square onto Uranus · 1 unaspected planet

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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The quick version

Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Jerry Bock's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 23, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Earth Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Jerry Bock was born on November 23, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Jerry Bock's birth date, November 23, 1928, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Jerry’s chart

Jerry’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.2° orbVenus faces off with Mars · Opposition, 0.5° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.6° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.8° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 2.1° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.4° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 2.5° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.2° orbSun in Sagittarius · 1°11′☉1°Moon in Aries · 10°23′☽10°Mercury in Scorpio · 17°33′☿17°Venus in Capricorn · 7°51′♀7°Mars in Cancer · 8°20′ · retrograde♂℞8°Jupiter in Taurus · 2°10′ · retrograde♃℞2°Saturn in Sagittarius · 19°13′♄19°Uranus in Aries · 3°38′ · retrograde♅℞3°Neptune in Virgo · 1°22′♆1°Pluto in Cancer · 18°09′ · retrograde♇℞18°

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

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb

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

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Jerry’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusoppositionMars0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Jerry’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune0.7° to 0.9° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus1.9° to 3.0° orb

  • stableVenussquareUranus3.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus4.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter5.0° to 6.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.6° to 14.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 6°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 6°19′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 3°46′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 1°06′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 10°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Sun 0.1°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 1.1°
  • Chiron trine Venus 1.2°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 1.5°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 1.6°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 1.7°
  • Ceres trine Mars 2.0°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 2.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.5°
  • Eros square Sun 2.6°

Jerry’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars3 pts

    disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Jerry’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Uranus · Venus, Mars, UranusAn 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.

  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.0°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun biquintile Mars 1.2°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.8°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 2.0°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.3°

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Jerry’s cards

Computed from November 23, 1928. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jerry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q725042 (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.

The same Jerry Bock at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jerry Bock.

Quick answers about Jerry Bock’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jerry Bock?
Jerry Bock was a Sagittarius: born November 23, 1928, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Jerry Bock's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 23, 1928 birth.
What was Jerry Bock's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was Jerry Bock's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Jerry Bock's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jerry Bock's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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