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), Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with John
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
John ranked 2nd among boys and 339th among girls in 1926, the year of this birth, with 56,108 American boys and 385 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1926, 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 shelf John Coltrane is read from: A Love Supreme, Giant Steps and Alabama.
Training came by way of William Penn High School and Combs College of Music.
The working life starts in 1945, at 19.
Cause of death is recorded as liver failure; the grave is at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
On the family side, John Coltrane was married Alice Coltrane and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia's editors put John Coltrane under American jazz clarinetists, African-American venerated Christians and Avant-garde jazz composers.
Bruce Springsteen (1949) and Ray Charles (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- A Love Supreme, Giant Steps and Alabama
- Educated at
- William Penn High School and Combs College of Music
- Instruments
- clarinet, saxophone, alto saxophone and baritone saxophone
- Awards
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1992) and Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (2007)
- Working from
- 1945
- Cause of death
- liver failure
- Buried at
- Pinelawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 73
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. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to John Coltrane
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hamlet 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 Hamlet that night
Computed for 34.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Hamlet at 9 p.m. that evening: Sadr of Cygnus, within 7.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 34.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hamlet on any night.
Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon up and 93% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Hamlet, United States
- Lived in
- Hamlet
Wikidata records Hamlet as John Coltrane's home, Hamlet among them.
The death is recorded at Huntington, Suffolk County in 1967.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Coltrane: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · 1 planet 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.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Aries or Taurus 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
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
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.0° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableVenustrineMars3.8° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.9° to 6.7° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.4° to 6.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 1°10′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 12°08′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 9°05′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 8°33′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 2.9°
John’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in John’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 1.0°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.2°
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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Famous people with Life Path 5
- Mark ZuckerbergAmerican Internet entrepreneur
- James Clerk MaxwellScottish physicist
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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
Computed from September 23, 1926. Tap to flip.
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7346 (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 Gelderen, Hugo van / Anefo, CC0, 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 Coltrane.
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.
- 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 was John Coltrane's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Coltrane's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
