John Luther Adams
John Luther Adams (born January 23, 1953, Meridian, United States), aged 73, is an American composer (born 1953). Adams's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music and Heinz Award.
John Luther Adams’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with John
John Luther Adams’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
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) × fixed 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
In 1953, 80,165 American boys and 164 girls were registered John — 4th among boys and 713th 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
The record
What sets John apart
Hideki Yukawa (1907) and Doutzen Kroes (1985) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of John is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, John is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What John needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with John, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. John builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; John slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 Luther Adams
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Meridian 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 Meridian that night
Computed for 32.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Meridian was Elnath, in Taurus, 86.0° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
Meridian sits at 32.4°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 −57.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon up and 70% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
John Luther Adams's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 23, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
John Luther Adams was born on January 23, 1953, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
John Luther Adams's birth date, January 23, 1953, 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 Luther Adams' date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- John Luther Adams combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 28° Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonsquarePluto0.0° to 6.9° orb
John’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 1.3° orb
John’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
John’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.7° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.9° to 3.6° orb
stableMarstrineUranus2.2° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.3° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.7° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn5.8° to 6.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.5° to 7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 15°49′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 3°26′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 3°29′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 15°06′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 3°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.0°
- Ceres trine Sun 0.0°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.5°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 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 semi-square Mars 0.1°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.5°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 2.3°
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Also born on January 23
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
John’s cards
Computed from January 23, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q788469 (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 Louisa Dedalus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Luther Adams 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 Luther Adams.
Quick answers about John Luther Adams’s chart
- How old is John Luther Adams?
- John Luther Adams is 73 years old, born January 23, 1953 in Meridian, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John Luther Adams?
- John Luther Adams is an Aquarius: born January 23, 1953, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is John Luther Adams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 23, 1953 birth.
- What is John Luther Adams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Luther Adams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Luther Adams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Luther Adams's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
