Jon Franklin
Jon Franklin (born January 13, 1942, Enid, United States; died 2024), was an American science writer. Franklin's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry.
Jon Franklin’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Snake, with 
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Jon Franklin’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Jon in the U.S.?
#951
US rank in 2025
~169,391
Americans share it since 1880
1964
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Jon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Jon, according to the stars
Core essence
Jon is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Jon is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Jon is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Jon needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Jon wants to be loved
Jon wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Jon be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Jon creates
How Jon makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Jon creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Jon is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Jon 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Jon is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Jon's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Jon sits
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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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Jon Franklin in 15 seconds
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
Jon Franklin's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 13, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Jon Franklin was born on January 13, 1942, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Jon Franklin's birth date, January 13, 1942, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Jon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jon Franklin's date-only chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jon Franklin combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Jon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jon Franklin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableVenussquareSaturn0.5° to 0.6° orb
Jon’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineSaturn0.7° to 1.7° orb
Jon’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.0° to 2.7° orb
Jon’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb
Jon’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.3° orb
Jon’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquarePluto3.7° to 4.3° orb
Jon’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.7° to 6.4° orb
Jon’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.8° orb
Jon’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableMercurysquareMars5.3° to 6.4° orb
Jon’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareUranus5.4° orb
Jon’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Jon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 12°47′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Jon performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresAquarius 5°59′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Jon is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosSagittarius 17°25′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Jon attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 25°20′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Jon is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Jon that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Sun 2.4°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Jon’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Jon is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Jon’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jon Franklin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Jon’s cards
Every card is computed from January 13, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jon Franklin, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Jon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q14954796, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same Jon Franklin at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about Jon Franklin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jon Franklin?
- Jon Franklin was a Capricorn: born January 13, 1942, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
- What was Jon Franklin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 13, 1942 birth.
- What time was Jon Franklin born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Jon Franklin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 13, 1942 birth date.
- What was Jon Franklin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 13, 1942 birth date.
- Where was Jon Franklin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jon Franklin's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
