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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with John
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
The SSA recorded 51,852 American boys and 253 girls named John in 1917: 1st among boys and 397th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
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
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
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 1917, 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 record John F. Kennedy is measured by: Ich bin ein Berliner, Profiles in Courage and We choose to go to the Moon.
Study took John F. Kennedy to Princeton University and Riverdale Country School.
John F. Kennedy was 24 when the work began in 1941.
The record gives shot to the head as the cause, and Arlington National Cemetery as the resting place.
On the family side, John F. Kennedy was born to Rose Kennedy and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., married Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and raised 4 children.
Peter Higgs (1929) and Noel Gallagher (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Ich bin ein Berliner, Profiles in Courage and We choose to go to the Moon
- Educated at
- Princeton University, Riverdale Country School and Noble and Greenough School
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963), Time Person of the Year (1961) and Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1957)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Peace Prize and National Book Award for Nonfiction
- Working from
- 1941
- Cause of death
- shot to the head
- Buried at
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 249
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. Working below.
Where John sits
Six lines
John’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Dedicate a star to John F. Kennedy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brookline on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Brookline at 15:00, John F. Kennedy’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Brookline that night
Computed for 42.33°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Brookline at the birth hour: Castor of Gemini, within 10.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Brookline sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −47.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brookline on any night.
Sun -44° below the horizon, Moon up and 58% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brookline, United States
The death is recorded at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas in 1963.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What John's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Peacemaker 天同 in 酉
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · A leaning bowl
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.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
John F. Kennedy's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time.
What Gemini means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
John F. Kennedy's birth date, May 29, 1917, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →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.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
MercuryconjunctionJupiterseparating · 2.5° orb
MercurysquareUranusapplying · 3.1° orb
MoontrineMercuryapplying · 3.4° orb
JupitersextileSaturnapplying · 4.1° orb
MarsconjunctionJupiterapplying · 4.6° orb
MarssquareUranusapplying · 5.3° orb
SaturnconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 5.5° orb
MoontrineJupiterapplying · 5.8° orb
VenustrineUranusapplying · 7.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironPisces 29°26′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 12°47′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 11°54′ · House 2
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 9°52′ · House 5
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°40′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
John’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in John’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| 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
Computed from May 29, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q9696 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Cecil W. Stoughton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John F. Kennedy at Wikipedia, whitehouse.gov, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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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.
- 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.
- What was John F. Kennedy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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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