John F. Kennedy Jr.
John F. Kennedy Jr. (born John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.; November 25, 1960, Washington, D.C., United States; died 1999), was an American attorney and magazine publisher.
John F. Kennedy Jr.’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with John
John F. Kennedy Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Seeker
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire 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
Of the names registered in 1960, John came 4th among boys and 646th among girls, carried by 76,096 American boys and 244 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., not the name they published under.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Rose-gold · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, 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
Saint David's School and Collegiate School shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as aviation accident.
On the family side, John F. Kennedy Jr. was born to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and John F. Kennedy and married Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for John F. Kennedy Jr.: New York University School of Law alumni, Aviators from New York (state) and American magazine founders.
The same date carries Amy Grant. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Saint David's School, Collegiate School and New York University School of Law
- Working from
- 1961
- Cause of death
- aviation accident
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 45
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of John is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show John you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. John creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: John is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means John does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to John F. Kennedy Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mirach stood nearest the zenith over Washington at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.4° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 100 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −51.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 48° below the horizon, Moon up and 55% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born as
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
- Known as
- John F. Kennedy Jr.
- Born in
- Washington, D.C., United States
The death is recorded at Atlantic Ocean, international waters in 1999.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John F. Kennedy Jr.: 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
62 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Sun · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
John F. Kennedy Jr.'s Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 25, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
John F. Kennedy Jr. was born on November 25, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
John F. Kennedy Jr.'s birth date, November 25, 1960, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John F. Kennedy Jr.'s date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- John F. Kennedy Jr. combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Seeker.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableMercurysextileVenus1.2° to 1.3° orb
John’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.3° to 2.3° orb
John’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb
John’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileNeptune2.1° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto2.1° to 2.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.8° to 3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.8° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.1° to 5.1° orb
stableMercurytrineMars4.1° to 5.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°35′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 21°55′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 6°49′ (moves 0.95° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 29°22′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 22°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.9°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
6 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 0.0°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°
John’s family here
2 relatives of John F. Kennedy Jr. also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
Born the same day as John
Amy Grant was born on November 25, 1960 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 38.9°N, the sky above Washington stops at −51.1° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like John
Other lawyers
- Marco Rubio1971
- Steve Witkoff1957
- Julia Gillard1961
- Chuck Schumer1950
- Hunter Biden1970
- Andrew Cuomo1957
Born in United States
- Bob PetersonAmerican actor, writer, and director
- Kathy GriffinAmerican actress and comedian
- Daryl HannahAmerican actress and director (born 1960)
- Melissa LeoAmerican actress
- Evan HandlerAmerican actor
- Stanley TucciAmerican actor and author (born 1960)
More charts like John’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Ira GershwinAmerican lyricist
- George BoweringCanadian writer
- Arthur SzeAmerican poet
Born in Rat years
- Saïd TaghmaouiFrench-American actor
- Henry JonesAmerican actor of stage, film and television
- Thomas ThiemeGerman actor
Also born on November 25
- Andrew Carnegie1835
- Christina Applegate1971
- Pedri2002
- Amy Grant1960
- Jeong Ju-yung1915
- Alessandro Michele1972
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Herbert Spencer GasserAmerican physiologist
- Gerald EdelmanAmerican biologist
- Edward B. LewisAmerican biologist
Other Sagittarius Rat charts
- Gonçalo GuedesPortuguese footballer (born 1996)
- Asian DollAmerican rapper (born 19969
- Carl GrandersonAmerican football defensive end
- Gunner OlszewskiAmerican football player
Other Radiant Seekers
- Declan RiceEnglish footballer (born 1999)
- Beauden BarrettNew Zealand rugby union player
- Louis Rees-ZammitWelsh rugby and American football player
- Maro ItojeEnglish rugby union player
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Ann Romneywife of Mitt Romney, First Lady of Massachusetts
- L.A. ReidAmerican record executive (born 1956)
- Luke PerryAmerican actor
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
John’s cards
Computed from November 25, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q316064 (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 John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John F. Kennedy Jr. at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John F. Kennedy Jr..
Quick answers about John F. Kennedy Jr.’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John F. Kennedy Jr.?
- John F. Kennedy Jr. was a Sagittarius: born November 25, 1960, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was John F. Kennedy Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 25, 1960 birth.
- What was John F. Kennedy Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was John F. Kennedy Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John F. Kennedy Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John F. Kennedy Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
