Jessica Gunning
Jessica Gunning (born January 1, 1986, Holmfirth, United Kingdom), aged 40, is a British television and theatre actress. Gunning's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Jessica Gunning’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Wood Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Jessica
Jessica Gunning’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Jessica in the U.S.?
#665
US rank in 2025
~1,054,307
Americans share it since 1880
1987
its peak year
In 1986, 52,682 American girls and 217 boys were registered Jessica — 1st among girls and 605th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jessica’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on J (1) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Jessica’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1985, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Jessica apart
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie came in 2024, when Jessica Gunning was 38.
Jessica Gunning was taught at Holmfirth High School and Rose Bruford College.
Jessica Gunning was 21 when the work began in 2007.
On Wikipedia the categories read Actresses from West Yorkshire, People from Holmfirth and LGBTQ people from Yorkshire.
Alicia Keys (1981) and Hailee Steinfeld (1996) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Holmfirth High School and Rose Bruford College
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2025), British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress (2025) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie (2024)
- Working from
- 2007
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 20
What the chart says
Jessica, according to the stars
Core essence
Jessica is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Jessica is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Jessica is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Jessica needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Jessica wants to be loved
Jessica 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 Jessica you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Jessica creates
How Jessica makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Jessica creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Jessica is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Jessica 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Jessica 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 Jessica's birth date. Working below.
Where Jessica sits
Six lines
Jessica’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Jessica Gunning
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Holmfirth 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 Holmfirth that night
Computed for 53.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mirfak stood nearest the zenith over Holmfirth at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.6° above the horizon in Perseus.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 53.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Holmfirth at all: they sit past the −36.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 71% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.
How unusual Jessica's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
A bundled chart · 3-planet stellium in Capricorn · No retrogrades at all
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 →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Jessica Gunning's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 1, 1986, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Ox
Wood OxReliable to the bone.
Jessica Gunning was born on January 1, 1986, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Jessica Gunning's birth date, January 1, 1986, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Jessica’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jessica Gunning's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Jessica Gunning combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Jessica’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Virgo 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
stableSunsextileMars0.0° to 0.3° orb
Jessica’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenussextilePluto0.0° to 1.1° orb
Jessica’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextileUranus1.1° to 1.2° orb
Jessica’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune2.2° to 3.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.3° orb
stableSunsextilePluto3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.4° to 4.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto3.7° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussextileMars4.1° to 4.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.2° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.7° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Jessica’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 10°24′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 14°49′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 7°13′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 19°39′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 23°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 2.0°
Jessica’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus, Neptune
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Jessica’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Venus, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.7°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
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Also born on January 1
- Alicia Keys1981
- Hailee Steinfeld1996
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Other Evergreen Strategists
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Jessica’s cards
Computed from January 1, 1986. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jessica’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6187234 (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 JaceMerlyn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jessica Gunning 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 Jessica Gunning.
Quick answers about Jessica Gunning’s chart
- How old is Jessica Gunning?
- Jessica Gunning is 40 years old, born January 1, 1986 in Holmfirth, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Jessica Gunning?
- Jessica Gunning is a Capricorn: born January 1, 1986, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Jessica Gunning's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 1, 1986 birth.
- What is Jessica Gunning's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jessica Gunning's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jessica Gunning's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jessica Gunning's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Mars; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
