Derrick Jones Jr.
Derrick Jones Jr. (born February 15, 1997, Chester, United States), aged 29, is an American basketball player (1993-). Jones has played for Portland Trail Blazers and UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball.
Derrick Jones Jr.’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Derrick
Derrick Jones Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Derrick in the U.S.?
#850
US rank in 2025
~146,344
Americans share it since 1917
1980
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1997, Derrick came 188th, carried by 1,784 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Derrick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on D (4) and closes on K (2). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Derrick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1997, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Derrick apart
Archbishop John Carroll High School and University of Nevada, Las Vegas shaped the training.
The working life starts in 2016, at 19.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Derrick Jones Jr.: Basketball players from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Sportspeople from Chester, Pennsylvania and Archbishop John Carroll High School alumni.
The same date carries Justin Reid. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Archbishop John Carroll High School and University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Working from
- 2016
- Sport
- basketball
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 19
What the chart says
Derrick, according to the stars
Core essence
Derrick is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Derrick is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Derrick processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Derrick needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Derrick wants to be loved
Derrick wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Derrick be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Derrick creates
How Derrick makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Derrick creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Derrick 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Derrick is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Derrick fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Derrick's birth date. Working below.
Where Derrick sits
Six lines
Derrick’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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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Dedicate a star to Derrick Jones Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chester 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 Chester that night
Computed for 39.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Chester at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.5° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 39.8°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 −50.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 67% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.
How unusual Derrick's chart is
Chart pattern score
80 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Aquarius · 1 unaspected planet · 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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Derrick Jones Jr.'s Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 15, 1997, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Ox
Fire OxStubborn, and usually right.
Derrick Jones Jr. was born on February 15, 1997, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Derrick Jones Jr.'s birth date, February 15, 1997, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Derrick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Derrick Jones Jr.'s date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Derrick Jones Jr. combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Derrick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Gemini 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
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.2° orb
Derrick’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.1° to 0.4° orb
Derrick’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMarssextilePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Derrick’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.3° to 0.7° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto0.3° to 0.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb
stableUranussextilePluto0.4° orb
stableMarstrineUranus0.5° to 0.7° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.7° to 0.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus3.0° to 4.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.1° to 4.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air7 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Derrick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 2°05′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 6°58′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 15°47′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 22°59′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 26°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.7°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Uranus 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Ceres trine Mars 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.7°
Derrick’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus15 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 6 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars7 pts
disposes Saturn; 6 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
disposes Pluto; 6 major aspects
Configurations in Derrick’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, UranusThree 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.5°
Born the same day as Derrick
Justin Reid was born on February 15, 1997 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 39.8°N, the sky above Chester stops at −50.2° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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More charts like Derrick’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
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Born in Ox years
- James NortonBritish actor
- Lauren ConradAmerican television personality, author, and fashion designer
- Katt WilliamsAmerican comedian and actor
Also born on February 15
- Megan Thee Stallion1995
- Miranda July1974
- Callum Turner1990
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Pierre-Gilles de GennesFrench physicist
- Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de ConstantFrench politician
- Serge HarocheFrench physicist, Nobel laureate
Other Aquarius Ox charts
- Paul NewmanAmerican actor
- Olga TokarczukPolish writer and activist
- Abdus SalamTheoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
- Natalie ColeAmerican singer
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Marc ConnellyAmerican playwright
- David E. HoffmanAmerican journalist
- Ernest BeckerAmerican cultural anthropologist
- Howard SacklerAmerican screenwriter
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Aaron PaulAmerican actor
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- Ian ThorpeAustralian swimmer
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Derrick’s cards
Computed from February 15, 1997. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Derrick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q27048881 (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 All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Derrick Jones Jr.’s chart
- How old is Derrick Jones Jr.?
- Derrick Jones Jr. is 29 years old, born February 15, 1997 in Chester, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Derrick Jones Jr.?
- Derrick Jones Jr. is an Aquarius: born February 15, 1997, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Derrick Jones Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 15, 1997 birth.
- How tall is Derrick Jones Jr.?
- Derrick Jones Jr. is 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Derrick Jones Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Derrick Jones Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Derrick Jones Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Derrick Jones Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (15 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 6 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
