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John Cena

John Cena (born April 23, 1977, West Newbury, United States, 08:57), aged 49, is an American actor and professional wrestler. Notable films include Barbie, The Suicide Squad and F9. Cena's honours include Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame and Slammy Award.

John Cena’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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John Cena’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Guardian

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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

6 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

White · Blush · 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 the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of John is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, John processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What John needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How John wants to be loved

John wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How John creates

How John makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. John creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: John 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. John is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; John slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from John's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where John sits

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Intimate circleWide network
John

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
John

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
John

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
John

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
John

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
John

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

John Cena's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Fire Snake

Calm surface, fast strike.

John Cena was born on April 23, 1977, which falls in a Fire 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 6

Care is the whole job.

John Cena's birth date, April 23, 1977, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in John’s chart

John’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 0° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.6° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 2.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.5° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3.7° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.9° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.9° orbSun in Taurus · 3°18′ · house 11☉3°Moon in Gemini · 29°16′ · house 12☽29°Mercury in Taurus · 13°57′ · house 11 · retrograde☿℞13°Venus in Aries · 8°32′ · house 10 · retrograde♀℞8°Mars in Pisces · 26°51′ · house 9♂26°Jupiter in Gemini · 4°08′ · house 12♃4°Saturn in Leo · 10°05′ · house 2♄10°Uranus in Scorpio · 10°03′ · house 5 · retrograde♅℞10°Neptune in Sagittarius · 15°48′ · house 6 · retrograde♆℞15°Pluto in Libra · 12°15′ · house 4 · retrograde♇℞12°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCnc 11°47′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCap 11°47′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCPsc 18°51′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICVir 18°51′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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AscendantCancer
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SaturnsquareUranusseparating · 0.0° orb

    John’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • VenustrineSaturnseparating · 1.6° orb

    John’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • SaturnsextilePlutoapplying · 2.2° orb

    John’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MoonsquareMarsseparating · 2.4° orb

    John’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.5° orb

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

  • VenusoppositionPlutoseparating · 3.7° orb

    John’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • MercurysquareSaturnapplying · 3.9° orb

    John’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • MercuryoppositionUranusapplying · 3.9° orb

    John’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • SunsextileMoonapplying · 4.0° orb

    John’s core identity opens doors for their feelings.

  • VenussextileJupiterapplying · 4.4° orb

    John’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • SaturntrineNeptuneapplying · 5.7° orb

    John’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • SunsquareSaturnapplying · 6.8° orb

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

  • SunoppositionUranusapplying · 6.8° orb

    John’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 1°34′ · House 11

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has John building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 28°26′ · House 3

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

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has John caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 12°58′ · House 7

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. John is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 8°10′ · House 3

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

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. John is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 0°03′ · House 12

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of John that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Eros square Pluto 0.7°
  • Ceres square Moon 0.8°
  • Eros trine Mercury 1.0°
  • Eros opposition Ascendant 1.2°
  • Ceres opposition Mars 1.6°
  • Chiron conjunction Sun 1.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.9°
  • Chiron sextile Moon 2.3°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 2.9°

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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♀ Venus11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    6 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: John is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Sun, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod 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.

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 semi-square Mercury 0.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
  • Venus quincunx Uranus 1.5°
  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.7°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.8°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.9°

John’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.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CancerMoon in Gemini, house 12emptyself, body, how you arrive
2LeoSun in Taurus, house 11Saturnmoney, possessions, self-worth
3VirgoMercury in Taurus, house 11emptymind, siblings, the local world
4LibraVenus in Aries, house 10Plutohome, family, roots
5ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 4Uranuscreativity, romance, play
6SagittariusJupiter in Gemini, house 12Neptunework, habits, health
7CapricornSaturn in Leo, house 2emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AquariusUranus in Scorpio, house 5emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 6Marsbelief, travel, higher learning
10AriesMars in Pisces, house 9Venuscareer, reputation, public life
11TaurusVenus in Aries, house 10Sun, Mercuryfriends, community, the future
12GeminiMercury in Taurus, house 11Moon, Jupiterthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Born the same day as John

2 other people here were born on April 23, 1977, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.

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John’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Lovers

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The Gilded Guardian

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q44437, 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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 Cena’s chart

How old is John Cena?
John Cena is 49 years old, born April 23, 1977 in West Newbury, United States.
What zodiac sign is John Cena?
John Cena is a Taurus: born April 23, 1977, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
What is John Cena's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 23, 1977 birth.
What time was John Cena born?
08:57 local time in West Newbury, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is John Cena's rising sign?
Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 08:57 birth time in West Newbury, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is John Cena?
John Cena is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is John Cena's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the April 23, 1977 birth date.
What is John Cena's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 1°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 23, 1977 birth time.
Where is John Cena's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 0°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is John Cena's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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