Jimmy Breslin
Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1928, Jamaica, United States; died 2017), was an American journalist and author. Breslin is best remembered for Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? and The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Breslin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and George Polk Award.
Jimmy Breslin’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dragon, with 
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Jimmy Breslin’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Jimmy in the U.S.?
#847
US rank in 2025
~290,955
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Jimmy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Jimmy, according to the stars
Core essence
Jimmy makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Jimmy 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Jimmy is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Jimmy needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Jimmy wants to be loved
Jimmy wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Jimmy even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Jimmy creates
How Jimmy makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Jimmy creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Jimmy 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 11 is the visionary, a master number. Jimmy is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jimmy 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 Jimmy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jimmy sits
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Jimmy Breslin's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 17, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Jimmy Breslin was born on October 17, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Jimmy Breslin's birth date, October 17, 1928, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Jimmy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jimmy Breslin's date-only chart is Mars square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Jimmy Breslin combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Jimmy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jimmy Breslin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMarssquareUranus0.4° to 0.7° orb
Jimmy’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter0.6° to 1.2° orb
Jimmy’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.4° to 1.9° orb
Jimmy’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineMars2.1° to 3.1° orb
Jimmy’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrinePluto3.6° to 4.9° orb
Jimmy’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileNeptune4.3° to 4.6° orb
Jimmy’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquarePluto5.2° to 6.2° orb
Jimmy’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.0° to 6.2° orb
Jimmy’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 1.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 1.8° to 13.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Jimmy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 8°26′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Jimmy building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 3°53′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Jimmy is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 24°49′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Jimmy is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 21°14′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Jimmy is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 5°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Jimmy leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron opposition Mercury 0.6°
- Eros trine Sun 0.7°
- Ceres trine Mars 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.4°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros square Venus 2.2°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.8°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.8°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 3.0°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Jimmy’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Jimmy is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Jimmy’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jimmy Breslin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Jimmy’s cards
Every card is computed from October 17, 1928, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jimmy Breslin, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Jimmy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15524996, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jimmy Breslin at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Jimmy Breslin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jimmy Breslin?
- Jimmy Breslin was a Libra: born October 17, 1928, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
- What was Jimmy Breslin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 17, 1928 birth.
- What time was Jimmy Breslin born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Jimmy Breslin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the October 17, 1928 birth date.
- What was Jimmy Breslin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 17, 1928 birth date.
- Where was Jimmy Breslin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jimmy Breslin's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
