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Jon Bernthal

Jon Bernthal (born Jonathan Edward Bernthal; September 20, 1976, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 50, is an American actor. Notable films include How I Met Your Mother, The Walking Dead and The Wolf of Wall Street.

Jon Bernthal’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Jon Bernthal’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Seeker

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

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

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

#951

US rank in 2025

~169,391

Americans share it since 1898

1964

its peak year

Jon ranked 111th among boys and 3,447th among girls in 1976, the year of this birth, with 2,323 American boys and 20 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jon’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Jonathan Edward Bernthal, not the name they published under.

2

Expression · connecting people

2

Soul Urge · closeness

9

Personality · generous, worldly

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

Jon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 1 · 6

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet

The record

What sets Jon apart

Training came by way of Skidmore College and Institute for Advanced Theatre Training.

The working life starts in 2002, at 26.

Sophia Loren (1934) and George R. R. Martin (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Skidmore College, Institute for Advanced Theatre Training and Sidwell Friends School
Working from
2002
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Jon, according to the stars

Core essence

Jon notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Jon is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Jon needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Jon needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Jon wants to be loved

Jon wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Jon gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Jon creates

How Jon 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. Jon 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: Jon is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Jon 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Jon fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Jon's birth date. Working below.

Where Jon sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Jon

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jon

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

PrivateExpressive
Jon

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jon

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

PracticalVisionary
Jon

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jon

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jon Bernthal

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night

Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Washington at 9 p.m. that evening: Sadr of Cygnus, within 5.8° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.

From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Washington at all: they sit past the −51.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 11% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 22° down.

The name and the places

Born as
Jonathan Edward Bernthal
Known as
Jon Bernthal
Born in
Washington, D.C., United States

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jon Bernthal: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Jon's chart is

Chart pattern score

58 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Libra · 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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If you only read one paragraph

Virgo Sun

Helps by correcting.

Jon Bernthal's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 20, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Fire Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Jon Bernthal was born on September 20, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 7

Digs under every answer.

Jon Bernthal's birth date, September 20, 1976, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Jon’s chart

Jon’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.5° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.5° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbMoon fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.6° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.9° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.4° orbSun in Virgo · 27°48′☉27°Moon in Leo · 15°11′☽15°Mercury in Libra · 0°41′ · retrograde☿℞0°Venus in Libra · 23°15′♀23°Mars in Libra · 17°50′♂17°Jupiter in Gemini · 1°12′ · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Leo · 12°57′♄12°Uranus in Scorpio · 5°06′♅5°Neptune in Sagittarius · 11°25′♆11°Pluto in Libra · 11°03′♇11°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Jon’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb

    Jon’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb

    Jon’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.9° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto1.9° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter2.9° to 3.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars5.1° to 5.7° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto6.5° to 7.1° orb

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 0°59′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 28°27′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 9°35′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 24°51′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°06′ (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 opposition Uranus 1.0°
  • Eros sextile Pluto 1.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 1.6°
  • Eros trine Neptune 1.8°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 2.8°

Jon’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Jon’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Mercury, Venus, Mars, PlutoThree 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.

  • Sun semi-square Saturn 0.2°
  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.2°
  • Mercury quintile Neptune 1.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.6°

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Jon’s cards

Computed from September 20, 1976. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Chariot

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Seeker

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

7 · Seeker

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q362616 (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 PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jon Bernthal.

Quick answers about Jon Bernthal’s chart

How old is Jon Bernthal?
Jon Bernthal is 50 years old, born September 20, 1976 in Washington, D.C., United States.
What zodiac sign is Jon Bernthal?
Jon Bernthal is a Virgo: born September 20, 1976, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Jon Bernthal's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 20, 1976 birth.
What is Jon Bernthal's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What is Jon Bernthal's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jon Bernthal's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jon Bernthal's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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