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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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.

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

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where J. K. Rowling sits

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Intimate circleWide network
J. K. Rowling

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

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

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

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

PracticalVisionary
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

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

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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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

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

J. K. Rowling’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for J. K. Rowling, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 27° Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • 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

    J. K. Rowling’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.4° to 3.5° orb

    J. K. Rowling’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableUranussextileNeptune4.3° orb

    J. K. Rowling’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter4.4° to 4.8° orb

    J. K. Rowling’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus5.3° to 6.4° orb

    J. K. Rowling’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn5.9° to 6.1° orb

    J. K. Rowling’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.5° to 7.6° orb

    J. K. Rowling’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • 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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

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

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has J. K. Rowling absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

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

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

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: J. K. Rowling looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

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

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

    Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. J. K. Rowling is read as easily moved and hard to pin.

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

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

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has J. K. Rowling at their best with something to be proud of.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has J. K. Rowling at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

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

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

J. K. Rowling’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  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

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: J. K. Rowling is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in J. K. Rowling’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for J. K. Rowling, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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J. K. Rowling’s cards

Every card is computed from July 31, 1965, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Architect

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

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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

No birth time is on public record for J. K. Rowling, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

J. K. Rowling’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q34660, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Snake.
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 time was J. K. Rowling born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is J. K. Rowling's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the July 31, 1965 birth date.
What is J. K. Rowling's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 31, 1965 birth date.
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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