John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (born January 3, 1946, Sidcup, United Kingdom), aged 80, is a British bassist. Jones's honours include Kennedy Center Honors.
John Paul Jones’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with John
John Paul Jones’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
John ranked 3rd among boys and 548th among girls in 1946, the year of this birth, with 79,267 American boys and 208 girls on the register.
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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
4
Personality · steady, dependable
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 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1945, 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 working life starts in 1961, at 15.
Wikipedia's editors put John Paul Jones under English male composers, British mandolinists and Bass guitarists from London.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892) and Greta Thunberg (2003) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- bass guitar, keyboard instrument and mandolin
- Working from
- 1961
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of John is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, John is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What John needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show John you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. John creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: John is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: 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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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.
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 Paul Jones
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sidcup 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 Sidcup that night
Computed for 51.43°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sidcup was Mirfak, in Perseus, 84.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
From 51.4°N, Vega, 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 Sidcup at all: they sit past the −38.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 44° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Sun · Mars retrograde · A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
John Paul Jones's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 3, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterPunctual, precise, proud.
John Paul Jones was born on January 3, 1946, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
John Paul Jones's birth date, January 3, 1946, 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 Paul Jones' date-only chart is Mars square Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- John Paul Jones combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Capricorn 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
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.0° to 5.9° orb
John’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableMarssquareJupiter2.0° to 2.5° orb
John’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareNeptune2.4° to 3.7° orb
John’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.8° to 4.0° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.8° to 3.0° orb
stableUranussextilePluto3.1° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.1° to 5.4° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.8° to 7.1° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed1 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.
⚷ ChironLibra 20°20′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 0°38′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 24°59′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 26°46′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 16°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Jupiter 0.1°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.8°
- Eros opposition Mars 2.4°
- Eros opposition Saturn 2.8°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Yod onto Sun · Uranus, Pluto, SunTwo 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Mars 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury quintile Neptune 1.1°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.8°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 2.0°
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Also born on January 3
- J. R. R. Tolkien1892
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- Dennis GardeckAmerican football linebacker
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Other Radiant Diplomats
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John’s cards
Computed from January 3, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q190243 (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 Craig Carper, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Paul Jones 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 Paul Jones.
Quick answers about John Paul Jones’s chart
- How old is John Paul Jones?
- John Paul Jones is 80 years old, born January 3, 1946 in Sidcup, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is John Paul Jones?
- John Paul Jones is a Capricorn: born January 3, 1946, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is John Paul Jones's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 3, 1946 birth.
- What is John Paul Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Paul Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Paul Jones's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Paul Jones's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
