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Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932, Kingsland, United States, 07:30; died 2003), was an American country singer. Cash is best remembered for I Walk the Line, At Folsom Prison and Folsom Prison Blues. Cash's honours include Grammy Legend Award, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Johnny Cash’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Johnny Cash’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Seeker

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Johnny in the U.S.?

#458

US rank in 2025

~321,696

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1932, Johnny came 96th among boys and 1,089th among girls, carried by 2,011 American boys and 43 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Johnny’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name J. R. Cash, not the name they published under.

5

Expression · versatility

1

Soul Urge · independence

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on J (1) and closes on J (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Johnny’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily

Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1932, 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 Johnny apart

Helen Clark (1950) and Pepe (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Johnny, according to the stars

Core essence

Johnny feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Johnny is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Johnny feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Johnny needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Johnny wants to be loved

Johnny 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 Johnny creates

How Johnny 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. Johnny 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: Johnny is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Johnny is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Johnny 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 Johnny's birth date. Working below.

Where Johnny sits

Six lines

Johnny’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Johnny

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Johnny

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

PrivateExpressive
Johnny

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Johnny

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Johnny

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Johnny

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Johnny Cash

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Read from the sky above Kingsland at 07:30, Johnny Cash’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Kingsland that night

Computed for 33.86°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Kingsland was Vega, in Lyra, 78.3° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.

From 33.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 74% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -9° down.

The name and the places

Born as
J. R. Cash
Known as
Johnny Cash
Born in
Kingsland, United States
Lived in
Kingsland

Wikidata records Kingsland as Johnny Cash's home, Kingsland among them.

The death is recorded at Nashville, Davidson County in 2003.

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What Johnny's birth time unlocks

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

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Human Design

Generator, profile 2/4

Emotional authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Pisces · 1 unaspected planet · 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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The quick version

Pisces Sun

Kind, porous, easily flooded.

Johnny Cash's Sun was in Pisces at the documented birth time.

What Pisces means →

Water Monkey

Wit is the tool.

Johnny Cash was born on February 26, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 7

Solitary, curious, deep.

Johnny Cash's birth date, February 26, 1932, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Johnny’s chart

Johnny’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.1° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.1° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.3° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.5° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 1.2° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.3° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.3° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 1.5° orbSun in Pisces · 6°45′ · house 1☉6°Moon in Scorpio · 7°57′ · house 9☽7°Mercury in Pisces · 6°28′ · house 1☿6°Venus in Aries · 16°32′ · house 2♀16°Mars in Pisces · 1°09′ · house 1♂1°Jupiter in Leo · 15°14′ · house 6 · retrograde♃℞15°Saturn in Aquarius · 0°15′ · house 12♄0°Uranus in Aries · 17°02′ · house 2♅17°Neptune in Virgo · 6°37′ · house 7 · retrograde♆℞6°Pluto in Cancer · 20°13′ · house 5 · retrograde♇℞20°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCPsc 22°56′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCVir 22°56′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCSgr 25°47′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICGem 25°47′

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunoppositionNeptuneseparating · 0.1° orb

    Johnny’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • MercuryoppositionNeptuneapplying · 0.1° orb

    Johnny’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.

  • SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 0.3° orb

    Johnny’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • VenusconjunctionUranusapplying · 0.5° orb

  • SuntrineMoonseparating · 1.2° orb

  • MoonsextileNeptuneseparating · 1.3° orb

  • VenustrineJupiterseparating · 1.3° orb

  • MoontrineMercuryseparating · 1.5° orb

  • JupitertrineUranusseparating · 1.8° orb

  • UranussquarePlutoapplying · 3.2° orb

  • VenussquarePlutoapplying · 3.7° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionMarsseparating · 5.3° orb

  • MarsoppositionNeptuneapplying · 5.5° orb

  • SunconjunctionMarsseparating · 5.6° orb

  • MoontrineMarsseparating · 6.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 19°06′ · House 3

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 9°54′ · House 11

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 4°19′ · House 1

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 16°13′ · House 6

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°40′ · House 2

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Venus 0.3°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 1.0°
  • Chiron sextile Pluto 1.1°
  • Ceres sextile Moon 1.9°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 2.1°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 2.3°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.4°

Johnny’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune14 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; rules the Ascendant, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars9.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Venus, Uranus; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun7 pts

    disposes Jupiter; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Johnny’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus semi-square Mars 0.4°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.4°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 0.9°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.4°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°

Johnny’s houses

Johnny’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1PiscesNeptune in Virgo, house 7Sun, Mercury, Marsself, body, how you arrive
2AriesMars in Pisces, house 1Venus, Uranusmoney, possessions, self-worth
3TaurusVenus in Aries, house 2emptymind, siblings, the local world
4GeminiMercury in Pisces, house 1emptyhome, family, roots
5CancerMoon in Scorpio, house 9Plutocreativity, romance, play
6LeoSun in Pisces, house 1Jupiterwork, habits, health
7VirgoMercury in Pisces, house 1Neptunepartnership, marriage, open rivals
8LibraVenus in Aries, house 2emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9ScorpioPluto in Cancer, house 5Moonbelief, travel, higher learning
10SagittariusJupiter in Leo, house 6emptycareer, reputation, public life
11CapricornSaturn in Aquarius, house 12emptyfriends, community, the future
12AquariusUranus in Aries, house 2Saturnthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Johnny’s cards

Computed from February 26, 1932. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Seeker

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Hour

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Johnny’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q42775 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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.

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Quick answers about Johnny Cash’s chart

What zodiac sign was Johnny Cash?
Johnny Cash was a Pisces: born February 26, 1932, which puts the Sun in Pisces at the documented birth time.
What was Johnny Cash's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 26, 1932 birth.
What time was Johnny Cash born?
07:30 local time in Kingsland, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What was Johnny Cash's rising sign?
Pisces rising, calculated from the documented 07:30 birth time in Kingsland, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
How tall was Johnny Cash?
Johnny Cash was 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Johnny Cash's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Johnny Cash's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 19°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Johnny Cash's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 22°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Johnny Cash's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; rules the Ascendant, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the seventh house; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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