Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin (born January 19, 1943, Port Arthur, United States, 09:45; died 1970), was an American singer. Joplin is best remembered for Me and Bobby McGee and Mercedes Benz. Joplin's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Janis Joplin’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Horse, with 
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Janis Joplin’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Strategist
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Janis in the U.S.?
#9736
US rank in 2025
~49,015
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Janis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Janis, according to the stars
Core essence
Janis is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Janis is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Janis is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Janis needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Janis wants to be loved
Janis 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 Janis be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Janis creates
How Janis makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Janis creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Janis 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 1 is the pioneer. Janis is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Janis leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Janis 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 Janis's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Janis Joplin's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Janis Joplin was born on January 19, 1943, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Janis Joplin's birth date, January 19, 1943, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Janis’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Janis Joplin's timed chart: Mercury in the 1st house, Venus in the 1st house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Janis Joplin's timed chart is Saturn sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Janis Joplin combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
Janis’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SaturnsextilePlutoseparating · 0.4° orb
Janis’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
UranustrineNeptuneseparating · 1.3° orb
Janis’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SuntrineUranusapplying · 2.1° orb
Janis’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
MercuryoppositionPlutoapplying · 3.2° orb
Janis’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
SuntrineNeptuneapplying · 3.3° orb
Janis’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercurytrineSaturnapplying · 3.6° orb
Janis’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
SaturntrineNeptuneapplying · 3.9° orb
Janis’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.3° orb
Janis’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercuryconjunctionVenusseparating · 4.6° orb
Janis’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SaturnconjunctionUranusapplying · 5.1° orb
Janis’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
MoonsquareNeptuneseparating · 6.8° orb
Janis’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunoppositionPlutoapplying · 7.6° orb
Janis’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
VenusoppositionPlutoseparating · 7.8° orb
Janis’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Janis’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 28°11′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Janis performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresAries 2°14′ · House 3
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Janis looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosPisces 24°52′ · House 2
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. Janis is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 9°48′ · House 7
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 Janis at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 16°03′ · House 6
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Janis guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Eros square Mars 0.1°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 0.2°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Chiron square Uranus 2.6°
- Chiron opposition Ascendant 2.6°
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°).
Janis’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♄ Saturn9.5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Janis is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Janis’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Grand trine · Sun, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.3°
- Moon quincunx Mercury 0.7°
- Moon biquintile Venus 0.8°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.8°
Janis’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 5 | Mercury, Venus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 9 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aries | Mars in Sagittarius, house 11 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 1 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Gemini | Mercury in Aquarius, house 1 | Saturn, Uranus | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Cancer | Moon in Cancer, house 6 | Moon, Jupiter | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 12 | Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Virgo | Mercury in Aquarius, house 1 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 1 | Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 7 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Cancer, house 6 | Mars | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Capricorn | Saturn in Gemini, house 5 | Sun | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Janis’s cards
Every card is computed from January 19, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Janis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1514, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Grossman Glotzer Management Corporation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Janis Joplin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Janis Joplin?
- Janis Joplin was a Capricorn: born January 19, 1943, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Horse.
- What was Janis Joplin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 19, 1943 birth.
- What time was Janis Joplin born?
- 09:45 local time in Port Arthur, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Janis Joplin's rising sign?
- Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 09:45 birth time in Port Arthur, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Janis Joplin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 19, 1943 birth date.
- What was Janis Joplin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 28°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 19, 1943 birth time.
- Where was Janis Joplin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 16°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Janis Joplin's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9.5 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
