John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger (born April 6, 1947, Bridgeport, United States), aged 79, is an American actor (born 1947). Ratzenberger is best known for Cheers.
John Ratzenberger’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Pig, with 
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John Ratzenberger’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, 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
4 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · 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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of John is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. John creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: John is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. John is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
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.
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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John Ratzenberger at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
John Ratzenberger's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 6, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
John Ratzenberger was born on April 6, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
John Ratzenberger's birth date, April 6, 1947, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Ratzenberger's date-only chart is Mercury square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- John Ratzenberger combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for John Ratzenberger, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Libra or Scorpio 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.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
John’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.4° to 1.2° orb
John’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° orb
John’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb
John’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSuntrinePluto4.5° to 5.5° orb
John’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.2° to 5.3° orb
John’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineSaturn5.7° to 6.4° orb
John’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunoppositionNeptune6.3° to 7.3° orb
John’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars7.4° to 7.7° orb
John’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 3.2° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 4.0° to 16.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
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 ℞Scorpio 6°59′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has John carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ CeresPisces 28°39′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: John is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosSagittarius 24°46′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has John attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 12°32′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. John is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 7°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. John is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.6°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.0°
- Eros square Mars 1.1°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.5°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.9°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 2.7°
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. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: John is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
Grand trine · Mars, Jupiter, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.1°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.4°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Ratzenberger, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
John’s cards
Every card is computed from April 6, 1947, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for John Ratzenberger, 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 Q374093, 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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Ratzenberger at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
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Quick answers about John Ratzenberger’s chart
- How old is John Ratzenberger?
- John Ratzenberger is 79 years old, born April 6, 1947 in Bridgeport, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John Ratzenberger?
- John Ratzenberger is an Aries: born April 6, 1947, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Pig.
- What is John Ratzenberger's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 6, 1947 birth.
- What time was John Ratzenberger 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.
- How tall is John Ratzenberger?
- John Ratzenberger is 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is John Ratzenberger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the April 6, 1947 birth date.
- What is John Ratzenberger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 6, 1947 birth date.
- Where is John Ratzenberger's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Ratzenberger's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
