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Jon Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi Jr.; March 2, 1962, Perth Amboy, United States), aged 64, is an American musician. Best-known releases include Blaze of Glory and Destination Anywhere.

Jon Bon Jovi’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Water Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Jon Bon Jovi’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Explorer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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

Of the names registered in 1962, Jon came 84th among boys and 2,630th among girls, carried by 4,785 American boys and 22 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jon’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name John Francis Bongiovi Jr., not the name they published under.

4

Expression · building what holds

1

Soul Urge · independence

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

5 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🪷 Lotus

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1962, 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 Jon apart

The classrooms behind this chart: St. Joseph High School and Sayreville War Memorial High School.

The working life starts in 1983, at 21.

On the family side, Jon Bon Jovi was born to Carol Sharkey and John Bongiovi Sr., married Dorothea Hurley and raised 4 children.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Jon Bon Jovi: Arena Football League executives, American football people from New Jersey and Actors from Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

Daniel Craig (1968) and Anthony Albanese (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
St. Joseph High School and Sayreville War Memorial High School
Instruments
piano, guitar, harmonica and voice
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Original Song
Working from
1983
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
77

What the chart says

Jon, according to the stars

Core essence

Jon feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Jon 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, Jon is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Jon needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Jon wants to be loved

Jon 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 Jon, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Jon creates

How Jon makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Jon creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Jon is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Jon is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Jon goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Jon

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

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jon Bon Jovi

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Perth Amboy on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Jon’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 81.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 62.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Perth Amboy that night

Computed for 40.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Perth Amboy was Castor, in Gemini, 81.1° up.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 40.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −49.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Perth Amboy on any night.

Sun 36° below the horizon, Moon down and 16% lit at waning crescent.

The name and the places

Born as
John Francis Bongiovi Jr.
Known as
Jon Bon Jovi
Born in
Perth Amboy, United States

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jon Bon Jovi: 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

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

4-planet stellium in Aquarius · A leaning bowl

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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Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

Jon Bon Jovi's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 2, 1962, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Water Tiger

Brave, bright, burns fast.

Jon Bon Jovi was born on March 2, 1962, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Jon Bon Jovi's birth date, March 2, 1962, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 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 12° to 27° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.1° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.8° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.3° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.9° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 3.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.6° orbMars faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 5.5° orbSun in Pisces · 11°38′☉11°Moon in Capricorn · 19°54′☽19°Mercury in Aquarius · 14°31′☿14°Venus in Pisces · 19°57′♀19°Mars in Aquarius · 22°27′♂22°Jupiter in Aquarius · 24°44′♃24°Saturn in Aquarius · 6°41′♄6°Uranus in Leo · 27°56′ · retrograde♅℞27°Neptune in Scorpio · 13°25′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Virgo · 8°47′ · retrograde♇℞8°

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

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune0.6° to 1.6° orb

    Jon’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableSuntrineNeptune1.3° to 2.3° orb

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

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.0° to 2.6° orb

    Jon’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto2.3° to 3.4° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus3.1° to 3.3° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus5.1° to 5.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.7° to 6.8° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 6.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 13.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.7° to 14.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 4.1° to 18.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed6 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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 6°42′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 22°59′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 13°43′ (moves 0.64° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 7°53′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 13°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Neptune 0.3°
  • Ceres square Mars 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 0.5°
  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.2°
  • Ceres square Jupiter 1.7°
  • Chiron opposition Pluto 2.1°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.3°

Jon’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter3.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Jon’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, SaturnThree 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 Saturn 1.7°
  • Saturn quincunx Pluto 2.1°

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Jon’s cards

Computed from March 2, 1962. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Explorer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q150916 (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 Laurent Fox--HUD, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jon Bon Jovi at Wikipedia, bonjovi.com, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

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

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

Quick answers about Jon Bon Jovi’s chart

How old is Jon Bon Jovi?
Jon Bon Jovi is 64 years old, born March 2, 1962 in Perth Amboy, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jon Bon Jovi?
Jon Bon Jovi is a Pisces: born March 2, 1962, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Jon Bon Jovi's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 2, 1962 birth.
What is Jon Bon Jovi's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Jon Bon Jovi's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jon Bon Jovi's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jon Bon Jovi's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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