John Menard, Jr.
John Menard, Jr. (born January 22, 1940, Eau Claire, United States), aged 86, is an American racing driver.
John Menard, Jr.’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with John
John Menard, Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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 1940, John came 3rd among boys and 463rd among girls, carried by 54,786 American boys and 208 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
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
1 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets John apart
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Regis High School.
On the family side, John Menard, Jr. was raised one child.
The same date carries John Hurt and Jim Hoagland. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Regis High School
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
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.
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 gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. John is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of John leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means John gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 Menard, Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Eau Claire 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 Eau Claire that night
Computed for 44.81°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Eau Claire was Capella, in Auriga, 87.5° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
From 44.8°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Eau Claire at all: they sit past the −45.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 95% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Saturn
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 →John Menard, Jr. at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
John Menard, Jr.'s Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 22, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitQuiet luck follows.
John Menard, Jr. was born on January 22, 1940, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
John Menard, Jr.'s birth date, January 22, 1940, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Menard, Jr.'s date-only chart is Sun opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Menard, Jr. combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableSunoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
John’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 1.4° orb
John’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.1° orb
John’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSunsextileJupiter2.3° to 3.2° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto2.4° to 2.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto5.4° to 7.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.7° to 6.3° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.7° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 16°04′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 19°35′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 23°25′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 13°31′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.8°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.6°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.9°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.2°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.3°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.3°
Born the same day as John
2 other people here were born on January 22, 1940, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 44.8°N, Eau Claire keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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John’s cards
Computed from January 22, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6248460 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Menard, Jr..
Quick answers about John Menard, Jr.’s chart
- How old is John Menard, Jr.?
- John Menard, Jr. is 86 years old, born January 22, 1940 in Eau Claire, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John Menard, Jr.?
- John Menard, Jr. is an Aquarius: born January 22, 1940, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is John Menard, Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 22, 1940 birth.
- What is John Menard, Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Menard, Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Menard, Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Menard, Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
