John Oliver
John Oliver (born April 23, 1977, Erdington, United Kingdom), aged 49, is a British-American comedian and television host. Oliver is best known for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The Bugle and The Lion King. Oliver's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series and Great Immigrants Award.
John Oliver’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Snake, with 
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John Oliver’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal 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
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
6 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
White · Blush · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets John apart
John Cena and Jennifer Meyer shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of John is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. John creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where John sits
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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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Erdington 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.
John Oliver at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
John Oliver's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 23, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
John Oliver was born on April 23, 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 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
John Oliver's birth date, April 23, 1977, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Oliver's date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- John Oliver combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for John Oliver, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb
John’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMoonsquareMars0.1° to 6.6° orb
John’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.4° to 1.6° orb
John’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.1° to 2.2° orb
John’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.5° orb
John’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionPluto3.6° to 3.8° orb
John’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.7° to 4.0° orb
John’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus3.8° to 4.0° orb
John’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussextileJupiter4.3° to 4.7° orb
John’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.7° orb
John’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionUranus6.4° to 7.4° orb
John’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 1°33′ (moves 0.06° 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.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 28°27′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has John caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosCapricorn 12°56′ (moves 0.18° 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.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 8°10′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. John is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini or Taurus during this date
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 square Pluto 0.7°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.0°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 1.6°
- Ceres opposition Mars 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Eros sextile Uranus 2.9°
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. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 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.
T-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Mercury · Neptune, Pluto, MercuryTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Oliver, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as John
2 other people here were born on April 23, 1977, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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John’s cards
Every card is computed from April 23, 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 Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for John Oliver, 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 Q1701254, 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 Neil Grabowsky / Montclair Film Festival, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Oliver at Wikipedia, iamjohnoliver.com, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
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 Oliver.
Quick answers about John Oliver’s chart
- How old is John Oliver?
- John Oliver is 49 years old, born April 23, 1977 in Erdington, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is John Oliver?
- John Oliver is a Taurus: born April 23, 1977, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Snake.
- What is John Oliver's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 23, 1977 birth.
- What time was John Oliver 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 Oliver's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the April 23, 1977 birth date.
- What is John Oliver's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 23, 1977 birth date.
- Where is John Oliver's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Oliver's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
