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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Pig, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where John sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for John Adams, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 29° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
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
John’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.2° to 2.6° orb
John’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.2° to 5.0° orb
John’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareUranus4.6° to 6.1° orb
John’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineNeptune5.6° to 6.4° orb
John’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ ChironScorpio 8°39′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has John carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresPisces 8°59′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: John is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosSagittarius 2°49′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has John attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaAries 27°59′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has John feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 1°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. John is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for 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.
- Eros trine Saturn 1.0°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.1°
- Chiron sextile Venus 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 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°).
John’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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: John is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 John’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Adams, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as John
Marisa Berenson was born on February 15, 1947 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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John’s cards
Every card is computed from February 15, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for John Adams, 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
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q84114, 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 The original uploader was Macror at English Wikipedia. (Original text: Deborah O'Grady), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Adams at Wikipedia, earbox.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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- 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 time was John Adams 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 John Adams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the February 15, 1947 birth date.
- What is John Adams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 15, 1947 birth date.
- 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.
