John Mayer
John Mayer (born October 16, 1977, Bridgeport, United States), aged 48, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Snake, with 
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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
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
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 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.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where John sits
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John’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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.
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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.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. 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.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for John Mayer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° Sagittarius 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.
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
John’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileMars3.7° to 4.5° orb
John’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableJupitertrineUranus4.9° orb
John’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto6.3° to 7.9° orb
John’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 3°54′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has John building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresScorpio 14°49′ (moves 0.42° 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.
♡ ErosCapricorn 10°40′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. John is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLibra 29°15′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. John is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of John that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.1°
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. ♀ 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
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, 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 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 Uranus 1.1°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Mayer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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John’s cards
Every card is computed from October 16, 1977, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for John Mayer, 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 Q215215, 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 Thatcommonkid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 Mayer.
Quick answers about John Mayer’s chart
- How old is John Mayer?
- John Mayer is 48 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
- 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 time was John Mayer 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 Mayer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the October 16, 1977 birth date.
- What is John Mayer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 16, 1977 birth date.
- 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.
