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JD Vance

JD Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984, Middletown, United States), aged 42, is a Vice President of the United States since 2025. Vance has held office as United States senator. Vance's honours include Time 100, Audie Award for Nonfiction and Achievement Medal.

JD Vance’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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JD Vance’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

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

How common is the name JD Vance in the U.S.?

#6980

US rank in 2025

~1,449

Americans share it since 1914

2005

its peak year

Jd ranked 2,876th in 1984, the year of this birth, with 16 American boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What JD Vance’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name James Donald Bowman, not the name they published under.

4

Expression · building what holds

2

Soul Urge · closeness

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (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

JD Vance’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern

Coral · Gold · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1984, 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 JD Vance apart

The shelf JD Vance is read from: Hillbilly Elegy and Rockbridge Network.

The classrooms behind this chart: Middletown High School and Ohio State University.

On the family side, JD Vance was born to Beverly Vance and Donald Ray Bowman, married Usha Vance and raised 3 children.

Wikipedia's editors put JD Vance under Catholic politicians from Ohio, Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign and American rhetoricians.

Isabel Allende (1942) and Sam Worthington (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Hillbilly Elegy and Rockbridge Network
Educated at
Middletown High School, Ohio State University and Yale Law School
Awards
Time 100 (2025) and Audie Award for Nonfiction (2017)
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English, American English and Appalachian English
Wikipedia editions
112

What the chart says

JD Vance, according to the stars

Core essence

JD Vance is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of JD Vance 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, JD Vance cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What JD Vance needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How JD Vance wants to be loved

JD Vance wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore JD Vance openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How JD Vance creates

How JD Vance makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. JD Vance creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: JD Vance is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. JD Vance 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means JD Vance runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from JD Vance's birth date. Working below.

Where JD Vance sits

Six lines

JD Vance’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
JD Vance

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
JD Vance

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

PrivateExpressive
JD Vance

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
JD Vance

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

PracticalVisionary
JD Vance

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
JD Vance

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 JD Vance

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

JD Vance’s birth-night reference starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 75.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alphecca →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 24° 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 Middletown that night

Computed for 39.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Middletown was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 75.3° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 39.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Middletown at all: they sit past the −50.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 38% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 2° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
James Donald Bowman
Known as
JD Vance
Born in
Middletown, United States

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

How unusual JD's chart is

Chart pattern score

31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 2 planets 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

Loves an audience. Earns one.

JD Vance's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 2, 1984, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Wood Rat

Resourceful is an understatement.

JD Vance was born on August 2, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

JD Vance's birth date, August 2, 1984, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in JD Vance’s chart

JD Vance’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.5° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.9° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 2° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.4° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.4° orbSun in Leo · 10°31′☉10°Moon in Libra · 21°42′☽21°Mercury in Virgo · 7°40′☿7°Venus in Leo · 23°40′♀23°Mars in Scorpio · 22°37′♂22°Jupiter in Capricorn · 4°16′ · retrograde♃℞4°Saturn in Scorpio · 10°02′♄10°Uranus in Sagittarius · 9°38′ · retrograde♅℞9°Neptune in Sagittarius · 29°01′ · retrograde♆℞29°Pluto in Libra · 29°29′♇29°

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

  • stableSunsquareSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb

    JD Vance’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSuntrineUranus0.4° to 1.4° orb

    JD Vance’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb

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

  • stableVenussquareMars0.7° to 1.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus1.5° to 2.4° orb

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn2.0° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter2.9° to 3.9° orb

  • stableVenustrineNeptune4.7° to 6.0° orb

  • stableJupitersextilePluto4.7° to 4.8° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.2° to 5.3° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.2° to 14.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

JD Vance’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 7°35′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 18°47′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 11°11′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 10°17′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 26°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Mercury 0.1°
  • Hygiea opposition Sun 0.2°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 0.3°
  • Eros trine Sun 0.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.7°
  • Eros conjunction Uranus 1.6°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 2.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.9°

JD Vance’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in JD Vance’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.

  • Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°

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JD Vance’s cards

Computed from August 2, 1984. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

JD Vance’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28935729 (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 Emily J. Higgins, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same JD Vance at Wikipedia, whitehouse.gov, IMDb, Instagram, 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 JD Vance.

Quick answers about JD Vance’s chart

How old is JD Vance?
JD Vance is 42 years old, born August 2, 1984 in Middletown, United States.
What zodiac sign is JD Vance?
JD Vance is a Leo: born August 2, 1984, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is JD Vance's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 2, 1984 birth.
What is JD Vance's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is JD Vance's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is JD Vance's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is JD Vance's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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