John Kander
John Kander (born March 18, 1927, Kansas City, United States), aged 99, is an American musical theatre composer. Kander's honours include Grammy Awards, Emmy Award and Tony Awards.
John Kander’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with John
John Kander’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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
In 1927, 55,949 American boys and 440 girls were registered John — 2nd among boys and 318th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
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
4 · 3 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1927, 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 Grammy Awards came in 1967, when John Kander was 40.
The schooling ran through Columbia University and The Pembroke Hill School.
John Kander was 30 when the work began in 1957.
On Wikipedia the categories read Military personnel from Missouri, Musicians from Kansas City, Missouri and Gay Jews.
Lily Collins (1989) and Adam Levine (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Columbia University, The Pembroke Hill School and Oberlin College
- Instruments
- piano
- Awards
- Grammy Awards (1967), Emmy Award (1973) and Tony Award for Best Original Score (1981)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Original Score and Academy Award for Best Original Song
- Working from
- 1957
- Sport
- association football
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 23
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of John is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. John is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. John scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Kander
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kansas City 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 Kansas City that night
Computed for 39.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kansas City was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 79.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Kansas City sits at 39.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −51.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 29° below the horizon, Moon up and 99% lit at full moon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Pisces · T-square onto Jupiter · No Earth planets
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 →John Kander at a glance
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
John Kander's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 18, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
John Kander was born on March 18, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
John Kander's birth date, March 18, 1927, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Kander's date-only chart is Venus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Kander combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Virgo or Libra 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
stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
John’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMoonoppositionUranus0.1° to 7.2° orb
John’s feelings pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.1° to 0.3° orb
John’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.6° to 0.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus1.6° to 2.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.8° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto3.1° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurysquareMars3.4° to 4.7° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn5.3° to 5.9° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.2° to 6.5° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 29°38′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 18°33′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 17°41′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 12°03′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 1°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mercury 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Mars 1.2°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 2.2°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 2.4°
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on March 18
- Lily Collins1989
- Adam Levine1979
- Queen Latifah1970
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Famous people with Life Path 4
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
John’s cards
Computed from March 18, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1685876 (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 Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Kander at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Kander.
Quick answers about John Kander’s chart
- How old is John Kander?
- John Kander is 99 years old, born March 18, 1927 in Kansas City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John Kander?
- John Kander is a Pisces: born March 18, 1927, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is John Kander's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 18, 1927 birth.
- What is John Kander's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Kander's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Kander's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Kander's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
