Jess Mariano
Jess Mariano (born July 8, 1977, Anaheim, United States), aged 49, is a Waiter at Luke's Cafe. Notable films include Heroes, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Gilmore Girls.
Jess Mariano’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Jess
Jess Mariano’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 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Jess in the U.S.?
#5299
US rank in 2025
~25,550
Americans share it since 1880
1915
its peak year
In 1977, 311 American boys were registered Jess — 454th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jess’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jess’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The record
What sets Jess apart
Study took Jess Mariano to UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and El Modena High School.
Jess Mariano was 19 when the work began in 1996.
Jess Mariano was married Jarah Mariano.
John D. Rockefeller (1839) and Son Heung-min (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, El Modena High School and American Conservatory Theater
- Working from
- 1996
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Jess, according to the stars
Core essence
Jess feels the room before entering it. The core of Jess is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Jess, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Jess 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 Jess needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Jess wants to be loved
Jess 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 Jess like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Jess creates
How Jess 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. Jess 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: Jess is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Jess 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 Jess 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 Jess's birth date. Working below.
Where Jess sits
Six lines
Jess’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Jess Mariano
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Anaheim 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 Anaheim that night
Computed for 33.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Anaheim at 9 p.m. that evening: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 8.0° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 80 catalog stars were up in all.
Anaheim sits at 33.8°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 −56.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 41% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 10° down.
How unusual Jess's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · A leaning bowl
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Jess Mariano's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 8, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Jess Mariano was born on July 8, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Jess Mariano's birth date, July 8, 1977, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Jess’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jess Mariano's date-only chart is Saturn trine Neptune, with an orb of about 2°.
- Jess Mariano 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.
Jess’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Aries 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
stableSaturntrineNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb
Jess’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileMars2.2° to 3.5° orb
Jess’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
Jess’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.5° to 5.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune7.4° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 1.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 1.2° to 13.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 3.2° to 15.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 5.6° to 17.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Jess’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 5°20′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 7°13′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 25°22′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 21°17′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Jupiter 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.4°
- Hygiea trine Mars 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.9°
Jess’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Jess’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-sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
More people like Jess
Other actors
- Melanie Lynskey1977
- Jon Heder1977
- Jessica Chastain1977
- Jaime Pressly1977
- Tom Welling1977
- January Jones1978
Born in United States
- Maria Dahvana HeadleyAmerican writer and translator
- Quiara Alegría HudesAmerican playwright and composer
- Tom CottonAmerican politician and army officer (born 1977)
- Edward FurlongAmerican actor and singer
- Ryan DunnAmerican television personality and stunt performer
- John MayerAmerican musician
More charts like Jess’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Hans BetheGerman-American nuclear physicist
- Kevin De BruyneBelgian association football player
- Tobey MaguireAmerican actor and film producer
Born in Snake years
- Blake GriffinAmerican basketball player (born 1989)
- Alyssa Farah GriffinAmerican political strategist (born 1989)
- Jon HederAmerican actor
Also born on July 8
- John D. Rockefeller1839
- Son Heung-min1992
- Virgil van Dijk1991
- Sophia Bush1982
- Jaden Smith1998
- Yann Le Cun1960
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- George LopezAmerican comedian and actor
- Josh LucasAmerican actor (born 1971)
- Fabrizio MorettiBrazilian-American musician
Other Cancer Snake charts
- Charlie SmythIrish player of American football
- Lukas Van NessAmerican football player (born 2001)
- T'Vondre SweatAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Paris Johnson Jr.American football player (born 2001)
Other Radiant Diplomats
- John TolandAmerican writer
- Ada Louise HuxtableAmerican architecture writer
- Barry BlittAmerican political cartoonist
- Carl DennisAmerican writer
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Simon DoonanBritish businessman
- Lee DeWyzesinger
- Carson DalyAmerican television and radio personality and producer
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Jess’s cards
Computed from July 8, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jess’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83733 (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 Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jess Mariano 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 Jess Mariano.
Quick answers about Jess Mariano’s chart
- How old is Jess Mariano?
- Jess Mariano is 49 years old, born July 8, 1977 in Anaheim, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jess Mariano?
- Jess Mariano is a Cancer: born July 8, 1977, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Jess Mariano's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 8, 1977 birth.
- What is Jess Mariano's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jess Mariano's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jess Mariano's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jess Mariano's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
