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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Jon
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 1898
1964
its peak year
The SSA recorded 1,763 American boys and 28 girls named Jon in 1942: 125th among boys and 1,576th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
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
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 record
What sets Jon apart
Orlando Bloom (1977) and Liam Hemsworth (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Jon sits
Six lines
Jon’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Jon Franklin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Enid 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 Enid that night
Computed for 36.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Enid at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 1.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
Enid sits at 36.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −53.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 11% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
How unusual Jon's chart is
Chart pattern score
78 / 100 · Rare
6 planets retrograde · Grand trine · T-square onto Mars
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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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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Sagittarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableUranustrineNeptune3.3° orb
stableMarssquarePluto3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.7° to 6.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.8° orb
stableMercurysquareMars5.3° to 6.4° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 12°47′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 5°59′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 17°25′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 25°20′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 4°45′ (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 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°
Jon’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Jon’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.8°
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- Orlando Bloom1977
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Jon’s cards
Computed from January 13, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q14954796 (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.
The same Jon Franklin at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jon Franklin.
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.
- 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 was Jon Franklin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jon Franklin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
