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J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling (born Joanne Rowling; July 31, 1965, Yate, United Kingdom), aged 61, is a British author and philanthropist. Rowling is best known for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Rowling's honours include Order of the Smile, De Kinderjury and Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers.

J. K. Rowling’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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J. K. Rowling’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Architect

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

What J. K. Rowling’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Joanne Rowling, not the name they published under.

4

Expression · building what holds

9

Soul Urge · meaning

22

Personality · quietly formidable

The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

J. K. Rowling’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Ruby, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sky blue · Gold · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1965, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets J. K. Rowling apart

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. That is the work the name is attached to.

Study took J. K. Rowling to Wyedean School and University of Exeter.

J. K. Rowling was 32 when the work began in 1997.

On the family side, J. K. Rowling was born to Anne Rowling and Peter James Rowling, married Jorge Arantes and Neil Murray and raised one child.

Lil Uzi Vert (1995) and Bretman Rock (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Educated at
Wyedean School and University of Exeter
Awards
Nestlé Children's Book Prize (1999), Andre Norton Award (2007) and Hugo Award for Best Novel (2001)
Nominated for
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and European Film Award, People's Choice Award for Best European Film
Working from
1997
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English and British English
Wikipedia editions
181

What the chart says

J. K. Rowling, according to the stars

Core essence

J. K. Rowling is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of J. K. Rowling is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, J. K. Rowling is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What J. K. Rowling needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How J. K. Rowling wants to be loved

J. K. Rowling wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with J. K. Rowling and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How J. K. Rowling creates

How J. K. Rowling makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. J. K. Rowling creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: J. K. Rowling is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. J. K. Rowling is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

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. J. K. Rowling fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from J. K. Rowling's birth date. Working below.

Where J. K. Rowling sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
J. K. Rowling

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
J. K. Rowling

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
J. K. Rowling

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
J. K. Rowling

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
J. K. Rowling

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
J. K. Rowling

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to J. K. Rowling

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Yate on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

J. K. Rowling’s birth-night reference starRastabanyellow · DracoRastaban, in Draco. A yellow star, 80.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Rastaban →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 12.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Yate that night

Computed for 51.54°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Yate at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 9.6° of the exact zenith.

Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Yate at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 0° below the horizon, Moon up and 16% lit at waxing crescent.

The name and the places

Born as
Joanne Rowling
Known as
J. K. Rowling
Born in
Yate, United Kingdom

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for J. K. Rowling: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual J.'s chart is

Chart pattern score

51 / 100 · Unusual

1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Jupiter · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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The quick version

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

J. K. Rowling's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 31, 1965, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Wood Snake

Says less than it knows.

J. K. Rowling was born on July 31, 1965, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

J. K. Rowling's birth date, July 31, 1965, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in J. K. Rowling’s chart

J. K. Rowling’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.9° orbSaturn faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.6° orbUranus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.9° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.6° orbSaturn faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.4° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.5° orbSun in Leo · 8°01′☉8°Moon in Virgo · 19°51′☽19°Mercury in Leo · 30°00′☿29°Venus in Virgo · 7°04′♀7°Mars in Libra · 17°45′♂17°Jupiter in Gemini · 22°21′♃22°Saturn in Pisces · 16°20′ · retrograde♄℞16°Uranus in Virgo · 12°55′♅12°Neptune in Scorpio · 17°14′♆17°Pluto in Virgo · 14°46′♇14°

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

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune0.9° orb

    J. K. Rowling’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnoppositionPluto1.5° to 1.6° orb

    J. K. Rowling’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto1.8° to 1.9° orb

    J. K. Rowling’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.4° to 3.5° orb

  • stableUranussextileNeptune4.3° orb

  • stableMarstrineJupiter4.4° to 4.8° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.3° to 6.4° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn5.9° to 6.1° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.5° to 7.6° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable6 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

J. K. Rowling’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 22°00′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 2°47′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 24°20′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 13°17′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 2°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Jupiter 0.3°
  • Eros square Jupiter 2.0°

J. K. Rowling’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in J. K. Rowling’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.

  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.7°
  • Jupiter biquintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 1.4°

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J. K. Rowling’s cards

Computed from July 31, 1965. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

J. K. Rowling’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q34660 (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 Daniel Ogren, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same J. K. Rowling at Wikipedia, jkrowling.com, IMDb, X 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. K. Rowling.

Quick answers about J. K. Rowling’s chart

How old is J. K. Rowling?
J. K. Rowling is 61 years old, born July 31, 1965 in Yate, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is J. K. Rowling?
J. K. Rowling is a Leo: born July 31, 1965, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is J. K. Rowling's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 31, 1965 birth.
What is J. K. Rowling's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is J. K. Rowling's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is J. K. Rowling's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is J. K. Rowling's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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