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J-Hope

J-Hope (born February 18, 1994, Gwangju, South Korea), aged 32, is a South Korean rapper, singer, dancer, songwriter, and record producer. Best-known releases include Hope World and Jack in the Box.

J-Hope’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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J-Hope’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

J-Hope’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Ivory · Forest

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 1994, 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 J-Hope apart

Study took J-Hope to Joydance Music Academy and Global Cyber University.

J-Hope was 19 when the work began in 2013.

Wikipedia files J-Hope under Musicians from Gwangju, Recipients of the Order of Cultural Merit (South Korea) and BTS members.

Aaron Stinnie shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Joydance Music Academy and Global Cyber University
Instruments
voice
Working from
2013
Citizenship
South Korea
Languages
Korean
Wikipedia editions
51

What the chart says

J-Hope, according to the stars

Core essence

J-Hope is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of J-Hope 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, J-Hope is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What J-Hope needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How J-Hope wants to be loved

J-Hope wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with J-Hope, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How J-Hope creates

How J-Hope 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. J-Hope 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: J-Hope is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. J-Hope 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. J-Hope goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from J-Hope's birth date. Working below.

Where J-Hope sits

Six lines

J-Hope’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
J-Hope

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
J-Hope

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
J-Hope

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
J-Hope

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
J-Hope

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
J-Hope

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to J-Hope

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Gwangju 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 Gwangju that night

Computed for 35.17°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Gwangju at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 10.6° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

Gwangju sits at 35.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −54.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 48% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 33° below the horizon.

How unusual J-Hope's chart is

Chart pattern score

55 / 100 · Unusual

T-square onto Sun · A bowl chart · No Fire planets

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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J-Hope at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

J-Hope's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 18, 1994, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Wood Dog

Guards the gate all night.

J-Hope was born on February 18, 1994, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 7

Asks the better question.

J-Hope's birth date, February 18, 1994, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in J-Hope’s chart

J-Hope’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.3° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.2° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.4° orbMoon flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.8° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.9° orbUranus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.1° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.1° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.2° orbSun in Aquarius · 29°14′☉29°Moon in Taurus · 22°29′☽22°Mercury in Pisces · 3°49′ · retrograde☿℞3°Venus in Pisces · 6°56′♀6°Mars in Aquarius · 16°23′♂16°Jupiter in Scorpio · 14°29′♃14°Saturn in Pisces · 2°24′♄2°Uranus in Capricorn · 24°20′♅24°Neptune in Capricorn · 22°12′♆22°Pluto in Scorpio · 28°02′♇28°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

  • stableMoontrineNeptune0.0° to 6.2° orb

    J-Hope’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunsquarePluto0.7° to 1.7° orb

    J-Hope’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.8° to 2.0° orb

    J-Hope’s mind and discipline act as one.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter1.5° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.0° to 4.3° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune2.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.7° to 3.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.6° to 5.6° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto3.7° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionSaturn4.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquarePluto5.3° to 6.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

J-Hope’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 6°40′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 4°37′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAries 8°25′ (moves 0.73° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 22°31′

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 24°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.2°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 0.3°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 0.3°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 0.8°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 1.8°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 2.2°
  • Ceres sextile Venus 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.4°
  • Chiron opposition Mercury 2.9°

J-Hope’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects

Configurations in J-Hope’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus semi-square Neptune 0.3°

J-Hope in BTS

Every member’s chart is computed separately from their own birth date. The group page puts them side by side and counts what they share.

Born the same day as J-Hope

Aaron Stinnie was born on February 18, 1994 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 35.2°N, the sky above Gwangju stops at −54.8° declination. Same sky, different lives.

More people like J-Hope

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Born in South Korea

  • Kim Ga-eunSouth Korean actress (born January 1989)
  • HoshiSouth Korean singer
  • TaeyeonSouth Korean singer, born 1989
  • JennieSouth Korean singer-songwriter and rapper
  • Kim Tae-riSouth Korean actress
  • VSouth Korean singer, actor and dancer

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J-Hope’s cards

Computed from February 18, 1994. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

J-Hope’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16236223 (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 TV10, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same J-Hope at Wikipedia, ibighit.com, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by J-Hope.

Quick answers about J-Hope’s chart

How old is J-Hope?
J-Hope is 32 years old, born February 18, 1994 in Gwangju, South Korea.
What zodiac sign is J-Hope?
J-Hope is an Aquarius: born February 18, 1994, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is J-Hope's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 18, 1994 birth.
How tall is J-Hope?
J-Hope is 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is J-Hope's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is J-Hope's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is J-Hope's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is J-Hope's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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