John Mayer
John Mayer (born October 16, 1977, Bridgeport, United States), aged 49, is an American musician. Best-known releases include Continuum, Battle Studies and Room for Squares. Mayer's honours include Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance.
John Mayer’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Fire Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with John
John Mayer’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, 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
Of the names registered in 1977, John came 7th among boys and 712th among girls, carried by 34,195 American boys and 218 girls.
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). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against 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
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
The record
What sets John apart
John Mayer took the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 2004, at 27.
Fairfield Warde High School and Central High School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1998, at 21.
Günter Grass (1927) and Naomi Osaka (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Fairfield Warde High School, Central High School and Brien McMahon High School
- Instruments
- guitar, keyboard instrument, mandolin and voice
- Awards
- Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (2008), Grammy Award for Song of the Year (2004) and Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album (2006)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best New Artist and Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist
- Working from
- 1998
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
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.
The vibe
Underneath, John is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What John needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. John creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: John is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. John is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 Mayer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bridgeport 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 Bridgeport that night
Computed for 41.18°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Deneb stood nearest the zenith over Bridgeport at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.0° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 93 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 23% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 32° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Bridgeport, United States
- Lives in
- Los Angeles · New York City
Wikidata records Los Angeles and New York City as John Mayer's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Mayer: 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
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
John Mayer's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 16, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
John Mayer was born on October 16, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
John Mayer's birth date, October 16, 1977, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Mayer's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Mayer combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° Sagittarius 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb
John’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.3° to 2.0° orb
John’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsquareMars2.0° to 2.5° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysquareMars3.2° to 4.5° orb
stableVenussextileMars3.7° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto6.3° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.2° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.4° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileSaturnorb from 4.2° to 5.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 3°54′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 14°49′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 10°40′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 29°15′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.1°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree 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 Uranus 1.1°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
More people like John
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- Ryan Cabrera1982
- Kid Rock1971
- Amy Lee1981
- Jada Pinkett Smith1971
Born in United States
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- Deommodore LenoirAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Wanya MorrisAmerican football player (born 2000)
Born in Snake years
- Ira B. Harkey Jr.American journalist
- William S. WhiteAmerican journalist and biographer
- Paul W. WardAmerican newspaper editor
Also born on October 16
- Günter Grass1927
- Naomi Osaka1997
- Loreen1983
- Tim Robbins1958
- Flea1962
- Jessica Bravura1989
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Maynard James KeenanAmerican singer
- Conan GrayAmerican singer-songwriter
- Virgil AblohAmerican fashion designer
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- Paige BueckersAmerican basketball player
- Huh Yun-jinSouth Korean-American singer-songwriter
Other Radiant Pioneers
- Robert HofstadterAmerican physicist and Nobel laureate
- Anthony James LeggettBritish physicist
- Adolf WindausGerman chemist
- Kenzaburō ŌeJapanese writer and Nobel Laureate
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- Monica BellucciItalian actress and model
- Michael PhelpsAmerican swimmer
- Eva PerónArgentine actress and politician
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John’s cards
Computed from October 16, 1977. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q215215 (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 Thatcommonkid, CC BY-SA 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 Mayer.
Quick answers about John Mayer’s chart
- How old is John Mayer?
- John Mayer is 49 years old, born October 16, 1977 in Bridgeport, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John Mayer?
- John Mayer is a Libra: born October 16, 1977, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is John Mayer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 16, 1977 birth.
- What is John Mayer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Mayer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Mayer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Mayer's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
