John Lithgow
John Lithgow (born October 19, 1945, Rochester, United States), aged 81, 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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with John
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
Of the names registered in 1945, John came 3rd among boys and 520th among girls, carried by 66,117 American boys and 197 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5).
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
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 record
What sets John apart
John Lithgow took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 1997, at 52.
The classrooms behind this chart: Princeton High School and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
The working life starts in 1972, at 27.
The family line: born to Sara Jane Lithgow and Arthur Lithgow, married Mary Yeager and raised one child.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910) and Rebecca Ferguson (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Princeton High School, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Harvard College
- Instruments
- banjo
- Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1997), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2017) and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Television Series Musical or Comedy (1997)
- Nominated for
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Television Film and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
- Working from
- 1972
- Wikipedia editions
- 64
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. 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 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.
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 Lithgow
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rochester 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 Rochester that night
Computed for 43.17°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Rochester was Scheat, in Pegasus, 74.2° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 43.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −46.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Rochester on any night.
The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
65 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart · 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 →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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Pisces or Aries 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
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
stableSunsquareMars3.8° to 4.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.2° to 5.5° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune5.6° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 11°50′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 29°46′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 10°05′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 7°45′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 7°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
John’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in John’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
More people like John
Other actors
- Liza Minnelli1946
- Gladys Knight1944
- Anthony Daniels1946
- Marvin Hamlisch1944
- Diane Keaton1946
- Larry Ellison1944
Born in United States
- Bette MidlerAmerican singer and actress (born 1945)
- Annie DillardAmerican writer (born 1945)
- Winfred RembertAmerican artist
- Jeffrey C. HallAmerican geneticist and chronobiologist
- Goldie HawnAmerican actress
- Priscilla PresleyAmerican actress and businesswoman
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- Nithin Kamath
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Born in Rooster years
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- Colson WhiteheadAmerican novelist (born 1969)
Also born on October 19
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar1910
- Rebecca Ferguson1983
- Lil Durk1992
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Davis MillsAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Boye MafeAmerican football defensive end
- Isaiah FoskeyAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Libra Rooster charts
- George KittleAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Asa NewellAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
- Liam McNeeleyAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
- Jase RichardsonAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
Other Gilded Diplomats
- Javon SolomonAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Ronnie HarrisonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Sam EhlingerAmerican football player
- Zach CharbonnetAmerican football player (born 2001)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Oscar HijuelosAmerican novelist
- Art SpiegelmanAmerican cartoonist and writer (born 1948)
- Charles FullerAmerican playwright
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
Computed from October 19, 1945. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q311271 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Lithgow.
Quick answers about John Lithgow’s chart
- How old is John Lithgow?
- John Lithgow is 81 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.
- 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 is John Lithgow's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Lithgow's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
