What zodiac sign was John F. Kennedy?

John F. Kennedy was a Gemini: born May 29, 1917, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.

What was John F. Kennedy's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 29, 1917 birth.

What time was John F. Kennedy born?

15:00 local time in Brookline, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).

What was John F. Kennedy's rising sign?

Libra rising, calculated from the documented 15:00 birth time in Brookline, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).

How tall was John F. Kennedy?

John F. Kennedy was 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.

What was John F. Kennedy's Life Path number?

Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the May 29, 1917 birth date.

What was John F. Kennedy's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Pisces at 29°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 29, 1917 birth time.

Where was John F. Kennedy's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 22°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was John F. Kennedy's dominant planet?

Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Moon, Venus; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy (born May 29, 1917, Brookline, United States, 15:00; died 1963), was President of the United States from 1961 to 1963. Kennedy held office as United States representative and United States senator. Kennedy's honours include Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, Presidential Medal of Freedom and Time Person of the Year.

John F. Kennedy’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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John F. Kennedy’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Seeker

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, 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

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John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet

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 conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. John needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, John is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What John needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How John wants to be loved

John wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to John like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How John creates

How John makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. John creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

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 7 is the seeker. John is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

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.

Where John sits

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Intimate circleWide network

John

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous

John

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

John

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Dedicate a star to John F. Kennedy

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John’s birth-sky starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 79.4° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 62.8° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

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John F. Kennedy in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Four conversations, one person.

John F. Kennedy's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

Fire Snake

Says less than it knows.

John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, 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 7

Needs the quiet to work.

John F. Kennedy's birth date, May 29, 1917, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in John’s chart

Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in John F. Kennedy's timed chart: Saturn in the 10th house and Pluto in the 10th house.
The tightest major aspect in John F. Kennedy's timed chart is Moon square Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
John F. Kennedy combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.

John’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantLibra

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

Aspects, tightest first

MoonsquareVenusseparating · 0.5° orb
John’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
JupitersquareUranusapplying · 0.7° orb
John’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoontrineMarsapplying · 1.2° orb
John’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 2.2° orb
John’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MercuryconjunctionJupiterseparating · 2.5° orb
John’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MercurysquareUranusapplying · 3.1° orb
John’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MoontrineMercuryapplying · 3.4° orb
John’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
JupitersextileSaturnapplying · 4.1° orb
John’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarsconjunctionJupiterapplying · 4.6° orb
John’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MarssquareUranusapplying · 5.3° orb
John’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SaturnconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 5.5° orb
John’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MoontrineJupiterapplying · 5.8° orb
John’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
VenustrineUranusapplying · 7.0° orb
John’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

Chart signature

Elements

Fire1 of 10
Earth4 of 10
Air3 of 10
Water2 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal2 of 10
Fixed5 of 10
Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.

⚷ ChironPisces 29°26′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has John absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresVirgo 12°47′ · House 12
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.
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 11°54′ · House 2
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. John is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 9°52′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. John is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°40′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. John is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 0.4°
Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 1.0°
Hygiea trine Sun 2.0°
Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.1°
Chiron trine Saturn 2.3°
Black Moon Lilith sextile Ascendant 2.7°

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. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Moon, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon6 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 4 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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

Mercury quintile Neptune 0.1°
Mars semi-square Pluto 0.2°
Moon semi-square Neptune 0.5°
Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
Venus semi-square Neptune 0.9°
Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.7°

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.

House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Libra	Venus in Gemini, house 9	empty	self, body, how you arrive
2	Scorpio	Pluto in Cancer, house 10	empty	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Taurus, house 8	empty	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Capricorn	Saturn in Cancer, house 10	empty	home, family, roots
5	Aquarius	Uranus in Aquarius, house 5	Uranus	creativity, romance, play
6	Pisces	Neptune in Leo, house 11	empty	work, habits, health
7	Aries	Mars in Taurus, house 8	empty	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Taurus	Venus in Gemini, house 9	Mercury, Mars, Jupiter	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Gemini	Mercury in Taurus, house 8	Sun, Venus	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Cancer	Moon in Virgo, house 12	Saturn, Pluto	career, reputation, public life
11	Leo	Sun in Gemini, house 9	Neptune	friends, community, the future
12	Virgo	Mercury in Taurus, house 8	Moon	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

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John’s cards

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The Gilded Seeker

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Western zodiac

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q9696, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Cecil W. Stoughton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same John F. Kennedy at Wikipedia, whitehouse.gov, IMDb 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 F. Kennedy’s chart

What zodiac sign was John F. Kennedy?: John F. Kennedy was a Gemini: born May 29, 1917, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
What was John F. Kennedy's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 29, 1917 birth.
What time was John F. Kennedy born?: 15:00 local time in Brookline, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What was John F. Kennedy's rising sign?: Libra rising, calculated from the documented 15:00 birth time in Brookline, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
How tall was John F. Kennedy?: John F. Kennedy was 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was John F. Kennedy's Life Path number?: Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the May 29, 1917 birth date.
What was John F. Kennedy's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Pisces at 29°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 29, 1917 birth time.
Where was John F. Kennedy's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 22°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was John F. Kennedy's dominant planet?: Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Moon, Venus; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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What stands out in John’s chart

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John’s dominant planets

Configurations in John’s chart

Minor aspects

John’s houses

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