Jesse Douglas
Jesse Douglas (born July 3, 1897, New York City, United States; died 1965), was an American mathematician. Douglas is best remembered for Petr–Douglas–Neumann theorem and Plateau's problem. Douglas's honours include Fields medal, Bôcher Memorial Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Jesse Douglas’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Jesse
Jesse Douglas’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Jesse in the U.S.?
#184
US rank in 2025
~444,920
Americans share it since 1880
1981
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1897, Jesse came 38th among boys and 1,066th among girls, carried by 529 American boys and 10 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jesse’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
2
Soul Urge · closeness
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jesse’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
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 Jesse apart
Franz Kafka (1883) and Julian Assange (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Jesse, according to the stars
Core essence
Jesse feels the room before entering it. The core of Jesse 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 Jesse, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Jesse wants to be loved
Jesse wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Jesse is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Jesse creates
How Jesse makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Jesse creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Jesse is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Jesse is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Jesse fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Jesse's birth date. Working below.
Where Jesse sits
Six lines
Jesse’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Jesse Douglas
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.5° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 81 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 16% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 13° down.
How unusual Jesse's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Mars · A bowl chart
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 SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Jesse Douglas's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 3, 1897, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
Jesse Douglas was born on July 3, 1897, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Jesse Douglas's birth date, July 3, 1897, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Jesse’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jesse Douglas' date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jesse Douglas combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
Jesse’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextileMars0.4° to 1.7° orb
Jesse’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareMars0.5° to 0.8° orb
Jesse’s affections grind against their drive.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.6° to 1.5° orb
Jesse’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus0.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn1.3° to 2.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus1.4° to 2.0° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn2.1° to 2.7° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto6.9° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Jesse’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 7°37′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 8°07′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 8°54′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 15°18′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 22°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.4°
- Ceres square Jupiter 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.7°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 2.5°
Jesse’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun
Configurations in Jesse’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Venus, Uranus, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Venus, Saturn, 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.
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mars quintile Pluto 1.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
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Jesse’s cards
Computed from July 3, 1897. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jesse’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q315404 (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 Technology Photographic and Photostat Service[1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jesse Douglas at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jesse Douglas.
Quick answers about Jesse Douglas’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jesse Douglas?
- Jesse Douglas was a Cancer: born July 3, 1897, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Jesse Douglas's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 3, 1897 birth.
- What was Jesse Douglas's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jesse Douglas's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jesse Douglas's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jesse Douglas's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
