Birth Chart
Jay McInerney
John Barrett McInerney Jr
Sun Capricorn
Moon Virgo or Libra
When the birth time is unknown, the chart is calculated for 12:00 noon without using the astrological houses system. Are the planets in the wrong houses?
Influences in signs
↣ Sun in Capricorn - 22°44'
↣ Moon in Virgo - 27°47'
↣ Mercury in Aquarius - 04°34'
↣ Venus in Sagittarius - 06°29'
↣ Mars in Pisces - 28°56'
↣ Jupiter in Cancer - 25°11' - retrograde
↣ Saturn in Scorpio - 19°23'
↣ Uranus in Cancer - 25°47' - retrograde
↣ Neptune in Libra - 28°10'
↣ Pluto in Leo - 26°19' - retrograde
↣ North Node in Capricorn - 05°24' - retrograde
Aspects
↣ Sun and Moon trine (5°02' separating)
↣ Sun and Mercury parallel
↣ Sun and Jupiter opposition (2°27' applying) antiparallel
↣ Sun and Saturn sextile (3°22' separating)
↣ Sun and Uranus opposition (3°03' applying) antiparallel
↣ Sun and Neptune square (5°25' applying)
↣ Sun and Pluto antiparallel
↣ Moon and Mars opposition (1°10' applying)
↣ Moon and Jupiter sextile (2°35' separating)
↣ Moon and Uranus sextile (1°59' separating)
↣ Mercury and Venus sextile (1°56' applying)
↣ Mercury and Mars sextile (5°37' separating)
↣ Mercury and Jupiter opposition (9°22' separating) antiparallel
↣ Mercury and Uranus opposition (8°46' separating) antiparallel
↣ Mars and Jupiter trine (3°45' separating)
↣ Mars and Uranus trine (3°09' separating)
↣ Jupiter and Saturn trine (5°49' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Uranus conjunction (0°36' separating) parallel
↣ Jupiter and Neptune square (2°58' separating)
↣ Uranus and Neptune square (2°23' separating)
↣ Neptune and Pluto sextile (1°51' separating)
↣ Pluto and North Node antiparallel
Birth data
- Original name
- John Barrett McInerney Jr
- Chart date
- 13/01/1955
- Chart time
- No time
- Date and time quality
- XX Time not informed what does this mean?
- Data origin
- Astro-Databank
- Location
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Hartford (CT), USA - Latitude and longitude
- 41°46' North · 72°41' West
- Time zone
- 05:00 West
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About
Jay McInerney is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and columnist whose work helped define urban literature from the 1980s onward. He rose to prominence with Bright Lights, Big City (1984), a second-person novel that depicts cocaine culture in New York and established him as a voice of a new generation of writers. The book’s success shaped much of his career and drew media and publishing attention to stories about young people in metropolitan settings.
Over the following decades he published novels such as Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages, as well as collections of short stories. He also worked as a screenwriter—adapting Bright Lights, Big City for film and co-writing the teleplay for Gia—and held editorial roles, compiling anthologies such as The Penguin Book of New American Voices.
Alongside his fiction, McInerney pursued journalism and wine criticism, writing columns for publications including House & Garden and The Wall Street Journal, and publishing books on wine that collect his essays. His work and public persona influenced contemporaries and provoked debates about the relationship between author, myth, and the press, leaving a lasting imprint on American urban literature.
