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John Travolta

John Travolta (born February 18, 1954, Englewood, United States, 14:53), aged 72, is an American actor. Notable films include Pulp Fiction, The Thin Red Line and Carrie. Travolta's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, New Jersey Hall of Fame and Honorary Palme d'Or.

John Travolta’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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John Travolta’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Guardian

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, 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

In 1954, 81,168 American boys and 185 girls were registered John — 4th among boys and 690th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What John’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

5

Soul Urge · freedom

7

Personality · composed, private

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

3 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern

Violet · Ivory · Forest

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 1954, 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

Toni Morrison (1931) and Yoko Ono (1933) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

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.

The vibe

Underneath, John is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What John needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

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 free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. John is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. John has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
John

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
John

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
John

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
John

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
John

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
John

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Englewood at 14:53, John Travolta’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Englewood that night

Computed for 40.89°N, at the documented birth time.

Mirach stood nearest the zenith over Englewood at the birth hour, 83.5° above the horizon in Andromeda.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.

Englewood sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Englewood at all: they sit past the −49.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -25° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Englewood, United States
Lives in
Encino

Wikidata records Encino as John Travolta's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What John's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Treasurer 天府 in 未

Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 6/2

Emotional authority · Triple Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Jupiter · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Aquarius Sun

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

John Travolta's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time.

What Aquarius means →

Wood Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

John Travolta was born on February 18, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

John Travolta's birth date, February 18, 1954, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in John’s chart

John’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Mars · Square, 0.5° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.6° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.6° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.7° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 4.8° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 4.8° orbSun in Aquarius · 29°38′ · house 8☉29°Moon in Virgo · 11°11′ · house 3☽11°Mercury in Pisces · 15°56′ · house 9☿15°Venus in Pisces · 4°26′ · house 9♀4°Mars in Sagittarius · 4°58′ · house 6♂4°Jupiter in Gemini · 16°32′ · house 12♃16°Saturn in Scorpio · 9°21′ · house 5 · retrograde♄℞9°Uranus in Cancer · 19°35′ · house 1 · retrograde♅℞19°Neptune in Libra · 25°55′ · house 4 · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Leo · 23°39′ · house 2 · retrograde♇℞23°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCnc 29°06′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCap 29°06′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAri 13°36′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLib 13°36′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCancer
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • VenussquareMarsapplying · 0.5° orb

    John’s affections grind against their drive.

  • MercurysquareJupiterapplying · 0.6° orb

    John’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • MoonsextileSaturnseparating · 1.8° orb

    John’s feelings open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.3° orb

  • MercurytrineUranusapplying · 3.6° orb

  • SuntrineNeptuneseparating · 3.7° orb

  • SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 4.8° orb

  • MoonoppositionMercuryapplying · 4.8° orb

  • VenustrineSaturnapplying · 4.9° orb

  • SunsquareMarsapplying · 5.3° orb

  • MoonsquareJupiterapplying · 5.4° orb

  • SunoppositionPlutoseparating · 6.0° orb

  • MoonsquareMarsseparating · 6.2° orb

  • UranussquareNeptuneseparating · 6.3° orb

  • MercurytrineSaturnseparating · 6.6° orb

  • MoonoppositionVenusseparating · 6.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 25°20′ · House 7

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 12°58′ · House 4

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 26°15′ · House 5

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 18°08′ · House 1

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 17°03′ · House 4

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.5°
  • Chiron square Neptune 0.6°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.4°
  • Hygiea trine Mercury 2.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.5°
  • Eros square Pluto 2.6°
  • Eros trine Ascendant 2.8°

John’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon9 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury9 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; angular in the first house; 2 major aspects

Configurations in John’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Moon, Mercury, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Moon, Venus, MarsAn 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.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
  • Moon semi-square Neptune 0.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.2°

John’s houses

John’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CancerMoon in Virgo, house 3Uranusself, body, how you arrive
2LeoSun in Aquarius, house 8Plutomoney, possessions, self-worth
3VirgoMercury in Pisces, house 9Moonmind, siblings, the local world
4LibraVenus in Pisces, house 9Neptunehome, family, roots
5ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 2Saturncreativity, romance, play
6SagittariusJupiter in Gemini, house 12Marswork, habits, health
7CapricornSaturn in Scorpio, house 5emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8AquariusUranus in Cancer, house 1Sunshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 4Mercury, Venusbelief, travel, higher learning
10AriesMars in Sagittarius, house 6emptycareer, reputation, public life
11TaurusVenus in Pisces, house 9emptyfriends, community, the future
12GeminiMercury in Pisces, house 9Jupiterthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

John’s family here

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John’s cards

Computed from February 18, 1954. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q80938 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by lauraleedooley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same John Travolta at Wikipedia, travolta.com, IMDb, Instagram, TikTok 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 Travolta.

Quick answers about John Travolta’s chart

How old is John Travolta?
John Travolta is 72 years old, born February 18, 1954 in Englewood, United States.
What zodiac sign is John Travolta?
John Travolta is an Aquarius: born February 18, 1954, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
What is John Travolta's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 18, 1954 birth.
What time was John Travolta born?
14:53 local time in Englewood, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is John Travolta's rising sign?
Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 14:53 birth time in Englewood, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is John Travolta's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is John Travolta's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 25°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is John Travolta's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 17°, in the fourth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is John Travolta's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Ascendant, Cancer; disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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