Jerry Siegel
Jerry Siegel (born October 17, 1914, Cleveland, United States; died 1996), was an American co-creator of Superman. Siegel's honours include Will Eisner Hall of Fame, Jack Kirby Hall of Fame and Inkpot Award.
Jerry Siegel’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Jerry
Jerry Siegel’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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
Jerry ranked 144th among boys and 792nd among girls in 1914, the year of this birth, with 649 American boys and 54 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jerry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
6
Soul Urge · being needed
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on J (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement 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
6 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1914, 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 Jerry apart
Jerry Siegel took the Inkpot Award in 1975, at 61.
The classrooms behind this chart: Glenville High School.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction; the grave is at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
The family line: married Joanne Siegel.
Wikipedia's editors put Jerry Siegel under Jews from Ohio, People from University Heights, Ohio and Disney comics writers.
Eminem (1972) and Arthur Miller (1915) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Glenville High School
- Awards
- Inkpot Award (1975), Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1979) and Bill Finger Award (2005)
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 36
What the chart says
Jerry, according to the stars
Core essence
Jerry makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Jerry is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Jerry wants to be loved
Jerry wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Jerry and watch them fall for you again.
How Jerry creates
How Jerry 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. Jerry 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: Jerry 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Jerry is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Jerry runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Jerry Siegel
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cleveland 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 Cleveland that night
Computed for 41.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cleveland was Scheat, in Pegasus, 73.5° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cleveland on any night.
The Moon, 2% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 37° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cleveland, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 1996.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jerry Siegel: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Jerry's chart is
Chart pattern score
20 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Earth 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.
Score your own chart →Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Jerry Siegel's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 17, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Jerry Siegel was born on October 17, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Jerry Siegel's birth date, October 17, 1914, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Jerry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jerry Siegel's date-only chart is Mars square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
- Jerry Siegel combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Jerry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 8° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMarssquareJupiter0.0° to 0.4° orb
Jerry’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto0.1° orb
Jerry’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextileUranus2.1° to 2.7° orb
Jerry’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareUranus4.5° to 5.2° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune4.6° to 5.2° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus4.9° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.1° to 5.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.3° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Jerry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 15°02′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 17°30′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 24°11′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 28°09′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mercury 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 2.2°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.5°
Jerry’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Jerry’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.
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.5°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°
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Also born on October 17
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From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Jerry’s cards
Computed from October 17, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jerry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q380113 (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 Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jerry Siegel at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jerry Siegel.
Quick answers about Jerry Siegel’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jerry Siegel?
- Jerry Siegel was a Libra: born October 17, 1914, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Jerry Siegel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 17, 1914 birth.
- What was Jerry Siegel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jerry Siegel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jerry Siegel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jerry Siegel's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
