John Adams
John Adams (born February 15, 1947, Worcester, United Kingdom), aged 79, is an American composer (born 1947). Adams is best known for Harmonielehre, Guide to Strange Places and Doctor Atomic Symphony. Adams's honours include Grammy Awards, Classic Brit Awards and Pulitzer Prize for Music.
John Adams’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with John
John Adams’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name John in the U.S.?
#23
US rank in 2025
~5,204,377
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
The SSA recorded 88,324 American boys and 203 girls named John in 1947: 3rd among boys and 600th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
8
Soul Urge · achievement
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 John apart
The record John Adams is measured by: Nixon in China, Doctor Atomic Symphony and Guide to Strange Places.
Study took John Adams to San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Harvard University.
John Adams was 26 when the work began in 1973.
Wikipedia files John Adams under Composers from Massachusetts, American choral conductors and Academics of the Royal Academy of Music.
Marisa Berenson shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Nixon in China, Doctor Atomic Symphony and Guide to Strange Places
- Educated at
- San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Harvard University
- Instruments
- clarinet
- Awards
- Grammy Awards (1989), Erasmus Prize (2019) and Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (1995)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Music
- Working from
- 1973
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 42
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of John is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, John is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What John needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show John you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. John creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: John is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. John is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. John goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from John's birth date. Working below.
Where John sits
Six lines
John’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to John Adams
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Worcester 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 Worcester that night
Computed for 52.19°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Worcester at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 9.3° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 52.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Nothing below −37.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Worcester on any night.
The Moon, 24% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 33° below the horizon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Mercury · Yod onto Pluto · 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.
Score your own chart →John Adams at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
John Adams's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 15, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
John Adams was born on February 15, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
John Adams's birth date, February 15, 1947, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Adams' date-only chart is Sun square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- John Adams combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 29° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsquareJupiter0.0° to 0.9° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
John’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineUranus0.9° to 1.7° orb
John’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.2° to 2.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.2° to 5.0° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.6° to 6.1° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune5.6° to 6.4° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.3° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 2.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 6.2° to 18.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 8°39′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 8°59′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 2°49′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 27°59′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 1°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Saturn 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.1°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.0°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in John’s chart
Yod onto Mercury · Neptune, Pluto, MercuryTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Pluto · Mercury, Venus, PlutoTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.5°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.8°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 2.0°
Born the same day as John
Marisa Berenson was born on February 15, 1947 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Worcester, at 52.2°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
More people like John
Born in United Kingdom
- Andrew Lloyd WebberBritish theatre composer (born 1948)
- Anthony DanielsEnglish actor and mime artist (born 1946)
- Warren ClarkeEnglish actor
- Bob PeckBritish actor
- Geoffrey HintonBritish-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
- Tim CurryBritish actor
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Born in Pig years
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Pape Matar SarrSenegalese association football player (born 2002)
- Luiz HenriqueBrazilian footballer (born 2001)
- Marco PašalićCroatian-German association football player
Other Aquarius Pig charts
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- Otto DielsGerman chemist
- Alan J. HeegerAmerican chemist, physicist
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes BeloRoman Catholic bishop
Other Evergreen Lightkeepers
- Gonçalo RamosPortuguese footballer (born 2001)
- Evann GuessandIvorian-French footballer (born 2001)
- Nicolas JacksonSenegalese association football player
- Robin RisserFrench footballer (born 2004)
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Senate SeeisoPrincess of Lesotho
- Olga CarmonaSpanish association football player
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From the journal: Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated · Is Western astrology outdated?
John’s cards
Computed from February 15, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
11 · Visionary♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q84114 (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 The original uploader was Macror at English Wikipedia. (Original text: Deborah O'Grady), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Adams.
Quick answers about John Adams’s chart
- How old is John Adams?
- John Adams is 79 years old, born February 15, 1947 in Worcester, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is John Adams?
- John Adams is an Aquarius: born February 15, 1947, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is John Adams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 15, 1947 birth.
- What is John Adams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Adams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Adams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Adams's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
