John Lithgow
John Lithgow (born October 19, 1945, Rochester, United States), aged 80, is an American actor. Notable films include Interstellar, How I Met Your Mother and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Lithgow's honours include Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
John Lithgow’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.How compatible are you with John Lithgow?
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John Lithgow’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, 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
US Social Security Administration public records
John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Blush · Forest
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 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 beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. John gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
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 sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. John is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where John sits
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
John Lithgow's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 19, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
John Lithgow was born on October 19, 1945, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
John Lithgow's birth date, October 19, 1945, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Lithgow's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Lithgow combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for John Lithgow, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.0° to 0.2° orb
John’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableSunsquareSaturn0.9° to 1.8° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn2.6° to 3.0° orb
John’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableMercurysquarePluto3.5° to 5.0° orb
John’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareMars3.8° to 4.4° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb
John’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
John’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrineUranus5.2° to 5.5° orb
John’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune5.6° to 6.8° orb
John’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 14.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironLibra 11°50′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. John is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.
⚳ CeresScorpio 29°46′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. John is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosSagittarius 10°05′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has John attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 7°45′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
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 LilithScorpio 7°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. John is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.0°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.5°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.9°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.6°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.7°
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 and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: John is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Venus, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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.
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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Saturn quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Lithgow, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
John’s cards
Every card is computed from October 19, 1945, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for John Lithgow, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q311271, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Rubenstein, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Lithgow at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by John Lithgow.
Quick answers about John Lithgow’s chart
- How old is John Lithgow?
- John Lithgow is 80 years old, born October 19, 1945 in Rochester, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John Lithgow?
- John Lithgow is a Libra: born October 19, 1945, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rooster.
- What is John Lithgow's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 19, 1945 birth.
- What time was John Lithgow born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is John Lithgow's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 19, 1945 birth date.
- What is John Lithgow's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 19, 1945 birth date.
- Where is John Lithgow's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Lithgow's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
