John Lennon
John Lennon (born October 9, 1940, Liverpool, United Kingdom; died 1980), was a British musician. Lennon is best remembered for Imagine. Lennon's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Academy Award for Best Original Score and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
John Lennon’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with John
John Lennon’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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 1940, John came 3rd among boys and 463rd among girls, carried by 54,786 American boys and 208 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
8
Soul Urge · achievement
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
6 · 1 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, 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
What keeps John Lennon in print: Imagine.
The classrooms behind this chart: Dovedale Primary School and Calderstones School.
The working life starts in 1956, at 16.
Cause of death is recorded as gunshot wound; the grave is at Central Park.
John Lennon was born to Julia Lennon and Alfred Lennon, married Yoko Ono and Cynthia Lennon and raised 4 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for John Lennon: Assassinated activists, British avant-garde musicians and 1980 murders in the United States.
Boris Nemtsov (1959) and Bella Hadid (1996) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Imagine
- Educated at
- Dovedale Primary School, Calderstones School and Liverpool College of Art
- Instruments
- piano, guitar, bass guitar and harmonica
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1994), Academy Award for Best Original Score (1971) and Member of the Order of the British Empire (1965)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song Score
- Working from
- 1956
- Cause of death
- gunshot wound
- Buried at
- Central Park
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 185
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of John is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
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 larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. John is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. John fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 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 Lennon
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Liverpool Maternity Hospital 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 Liverpool Maternity Hospital that night
Computed for 53.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Liverpool Maternity Hospital was Deneb, in Cygnus, 80.9° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.
Liverpool Maternity Hospital sits at 53.4°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon up and 66% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Liverpool Maternity Hospital, United Kingdom
- Lived in
- Liverpool
Wikidata records Liverpool as John Lennon's home, against Liverpool Maternity Hospital as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1980.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Lennon: 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
53 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
John Lennon's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 9, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
John Lennon's birth date, October 9, 1940, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Lennon's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Lennon combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableUranustrineNeptune0.4° to 0.5° orb
John’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.5° orb
John’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextilePluto1.4° to 2.0° orb
John’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.4° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn4.3° to 5.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter4.8° to 6.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.2° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 2.5° to 13.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 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, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 0°33′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 1°21′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 4°38′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 25°05′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 13°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.5°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 0.9°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.6°
- Eros trine Venus 1.7°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.9°
- Eros square Mars 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.6°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.8°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto3 pts
disposes Mercury; 2 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 quintile Pluto 0.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.9°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
John’s family here
One relative of John Lennon also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like John
Other composers
- Freddie Mercury1946
- John Corigliano1938
- Al Green1946
- William Bolcom1938
- John Paul Jones1946
- Charles Wuorinen1938
Born in United Kingdom
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- John ClarkeBritish physicist (born 1942)
- Ian McKellenBritish actor
- Terry JonesWelsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer
- Corin RedgraveBritish actor
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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 October 9, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1203 (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 Tony Barnard, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, 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 Lennon.
Quick answers about John Lennon’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Lennon?
- John Lennon was a Libra: born October 9, 1940, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was John Lennon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 9, 1940 birth.
- What was John Lennon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Lennon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Lennon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Lennon's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
