John Coltrane
John Coltrane (born September 23, 1926, Hamlet, United States; died 1967), was an American jazz saxophonist. Coltrane's honours include Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, North Carolina Music Hall of Fame and Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards.
John Coltrane’s zodiac sign was Virgo or Libra (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.How compatible are you with John Coltrane?
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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
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
—
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Your planetary stone, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with John and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. John 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: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means John is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from John's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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Virgo or Libra Sun
John Coltrane was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
John Coltrane was born on September 23, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
John Coltrane's birth date, September 23, 1926, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Coltrane's date-only chart is Venus sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for John Coltrane, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableVenussextilePluto0.4° to 1.6° orb
John’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareJupiter1.1° to 1.3° orb
John’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunoppositionUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb
John’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.9° to 3.7° orb
John’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.0° orb
John’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMarssextilePluto3.4° orb
John’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
John’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineMars3.8° to 5.0° orb
John’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.2° to 4.3° orb
John’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.9° to 6.7° 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.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.0° to 5.1° orb
John’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturntrinePluto6.4° to 6.5° orb
John’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 1°10′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
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.
⚳ CeresLibra 12°08′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. John is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosCapricorn 9°05′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
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.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 8°33′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
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 LilithVirgo 11°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has John exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 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 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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: John is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
Grand cross · Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, NeptuneTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 1.0°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Coltrane, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
John’s cards
Every card is computed from September 23, 1926, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for John Coltrane, 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 Q7346, 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 Gelderen, Hugo van / Anefo, CC0, 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 Coltrane’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Coltrane?
- John Coltrane was born on a day when the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Tiger.
- What was John Coltrane's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 23, 1926 birth.
- What time was John Coltrane 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 was John Coltrane's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the September 23, 1926 birth date.
- What was John Coltrane's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 23, 1926 birth date.
- Where was John Coltrane's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Coltrane's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
