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J. J. McCarthy

J. J. McCarthy (born January 20, 2003, Evanston, United States), aged 23, is an American football player (born 2003). McCarthy has played for Minnesota Vikings and Michigan Wolverines football.

J. J. McCarthy’s zodiac sign is Capricorn or Aquarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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What J. J. McCarthy’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

1

Soul Urge · independence

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on J (1) and closes on J (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

J. J. McCarthy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

—

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Garnet, Your planetary stone, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🪷 Lotus

Crimson · Soft pink

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 2002, 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. J. McCarthy apart

J. J. McCarthy was taught at IMG Academy and Nazareth Academy.

On Wikipedia the categories read People from La Grange Park, Illinois, Players of American football from Evanston, Illinois and IMG Academy alumni.

Buzz Aldrin (1930) and Bill Maher (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
IMG Academy, Nazareth Academy and University of Michigan
Sport
American football
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
7

What the chart says

J. J. McCarthy, according to the stars

How J. J. McCarthy wants to be loved

J. J. McCarthy wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with J. J. McCarthy and watch them fall for you again.

How J. J. McCarthy creates

How J. J. McCarthy makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. J. J. McCarthy creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: J. J. McCarthy is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. J. J. McCarthy 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. J. J. McCarthy has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from J. J. McCarthy's birth date. Working below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to J. J. McCarthy

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

Computed for 42.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Capella stood nearest the zenith over Evanston at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.8° above the horizon in Auriga.

Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Evanston sits at 42.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Evanston at all: they sit past the −48.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon up and 91% lit at waning gibbous.

How unusual J.'s chart is

Chart pattern score

65 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Mars · 1 unaspected planet

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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If you only read one paragraph

Capricorn or Aquarius Sun

J. J. McCarthy was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Water Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

J. J. McCarthy was born on January 20, 2003, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

J. J. McCarthy's birth date, January 20, 2003, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in J. J. McCarthy’s chart

J. J. McCarthy’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.1° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.5° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 2.6° orbVenus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.4° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 4.1° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.2° orbSaturn faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 4.2° orbSun in Aquarius · 0°16′☉0°Moon in Leo · 29°41′☽29°Mercury in Capricorn · 12°40′ · retrograde☿℞12°Venus in Sagittarius · 13°40′♀13°Mars in Sagittarius · 2°18′♂2°Jupiter in Leo · 14°45′ · retrograde♃℞14°Saturn in Gemini · 23°06′ · retrograde♄℞23°Uranus in Aquarius · 27°14′♅27°Neptune in Aquarius · 10°17′♆10°Pluto in Sagittarius · 18°57′♇18°

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

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenustrineJupiter0.5° to 1.7° orb

    J. J. McCarthy’s affections flow straight into their growth.

  • stableSunsextileMars1.9° to 2.2° orb

    J. J. McCarthy’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune2.9° to 3.9° orb

    J. J. McCarthy’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto4.1° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus4.1° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto4.1° to 4.2° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.4° to 4.6° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto4.7° to 5.8° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus4.8° to 5.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 13.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

J. J. McCarthy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 12°44′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 12°47′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 14°50′ (moves 0.72° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 9°37′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 27°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 0.1°
  • Ceres square Mercury 0.1°
  • Eros trine Jupiter 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.4°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 0.7°
  • Ceres trine Venus 0.9°
  • Eros trine Venus 1.2°
  • Ceres trine Jupiter 2.0°
  • Eros square Mercury 2.2°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 2.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.7°

J. J. McCarthy’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

Configurations in J. J. McCarthy’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Uranus, 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.

  • Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.4°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Sun biquintile Saturn 1.2°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.1°

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J. J. McCarthy’s cards

Computed from January 20, 2003. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

8 · Achiever
The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

J. J. McCarthy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108913383 (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 Maize & Blue Nation, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same J. J. McCarthy at Wikipedia, Instagram and X.

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

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

Quick answers about J. J. McCarthy’s chart

How old is J. J. McCarthy?
J. J. McCarthy is 23 years old, born January 20, 2003 in Evanston, United States.
What zodiac sign is J. J. McCarthy?
J. J. McCarthy was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
What is J. J. McCarthy's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 20, 2003 birth.
How tall is J. J. McCarthy?
J. J. McCarthy is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is J. J. McCarthy's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is J. J. McCarthy's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is J. J. McCarthy's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is J. J. McCarthy's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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