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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with John
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
The SSA recorded 88,324 American boys and 203 girls named John in 1947: 3rd among boys and 600th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as 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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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 record John Ratzenberger is measured by: Cheers.
The schooling ran through Sacred Heart University.
John Ratzenberger was 28 when the work began in 1975.
The family line: raised one child.
Wikipedia files John Ratzenberger under Sacred Heart University alumni, Male actors from Bridgeport, Connecticut and Skydance Media people.
James Watson (1928) and Paul Rudd (1969) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Cheers
- Educated at
- Sacred Heart University
- Working from
- 1975
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 34
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. 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 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.
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 Ratzenberger
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bridgeport 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 Bridgeport that night
Computed for 41.18°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bridgeport was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 87.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Bridgeport sits at 41.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets
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 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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 4 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Libra or Scorpio 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
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
stableSuntrinePluto4.5° to 5.5° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.7° to 6.4° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune6.3° to 7.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars7.4° to 7.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 6°59′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 28°39′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 24°46′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 12°32′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 7°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
John’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in John’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like John
Other screenwriters
- Dan O'Bannon1946
- Stephen Schwartz1948
- Elfriede Jelinek1946
- Mikhail Baryshnikov1948
- Sally Field1946
- Carl Weathers1948
Born in United States
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- Edward James OlmosAmerican actor
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- Diane HendricksAmerican businesswoman, co-founder of ABC Supply
- Alan DiazAmerican photographer and photojournalist
More charts like John’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Douglas SantosBrazilian footballer (born 1994)
- Denzel DumfriesDutch association football player (born 1996)
- Haji WrightAmerican soccer player (born 1998)
Born in Pig years
- Michio KakuU.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author
- Hailee SteinfeldAmerican actress and singer-songwriter
- Chris TuckerAmerican actor and comedian
Also born on April 6
- James Watson1928
- Paul Rudd1969
- Zach Braff1975
- Todd Chrisley1969
- Marilu Henner1952
- Shaheen Afridi2000
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Tommy SmithNew Zealand footballer
- Ollie WatkinsEnglish footballer (born 1995)
- Dan BurnEnglish association football player (born 1992)
Other Aries Pig charts
- Oren BurksAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Maliek CollinsAmerican football defensive tackle
- Chuck ClarkAmerican football player
- Al-Quadin MuhammadAmerican football defensive end
Other Evergreen Pioneers
- Guillermo VarelaUruguayan association football player
- Leo ØstigårdNorwegian footballer (born 1999)
- Fabian RiederSwiss association football player
- Maghnes AklioucheFrench footballer (born 2002)
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharIndian-American astrophysicist
- Julius NyerereTanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania
- Benedict CumberbatchEnglish actor
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John’s cards
Computed from April 6, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
4 · Architect♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q374093 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Ratzenberger 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 Ratzenberger.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is John Ratzenberger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
