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Jon M. Chu

Jon M. Chu (born November 2, 1979, Palo Alto, United States), aged 47, is an American filmmaker. Notable films include Wicked, Now You See Me 2 and G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Chu's honours include Time 100.

Jon M. Chu’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Jon M. Chu’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Guardian

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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

Jon ranked 118th among boys and 4,306th among girls in 1979, the year of this birth, with 2,297 American boys and 17 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jon’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

9

Soul Urge · meaning

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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 · 7

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

The record

What sets Jon apart

Shah Rukh Khan (1965) and David Schwimmer (1966) 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 does not do surface. The core of Jon is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Jon is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Jon runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Jon needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Jon wants to be loved

Jon wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Jon even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Jon creates

How Jon makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Jon creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Jon is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Jon fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Jon

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jon

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

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 M. Chu

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

Jon’s birth-night reference starAlpheratzblue-white · AndromedaAlpheratz, in Andromeda. A blue-white star, 79.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alpheratz →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 29.6° 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 Palo Alto that night

Computed for 37.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Palo Alto was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 79.7° up.

Of the 97 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 37.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −52.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Palo Alto on any night.

The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.

How unusual Jon's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all

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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Jon M. Chu at a glance

Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

Jon M. Chu's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 2, 1979, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Goat

Artist first, everything second.

Jon M. Chu was born on November 2, 1979, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Jon M. Chu's birth date, November 2, 1979, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 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 13° to 28° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.7° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 1.1° orbMars grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.9° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.9° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.9° orbSun in Scorpio · 9°48′☉9°Moon in Aries · 20°42′☽20°Mercury in Sagittarius · 3°02′☿3°Venus in Scorpio · 27°56′♀27°Mars in Leo · 21°46′♂21°Jupiter in Virgo · 5°59′♃5°Saturn in Virgo · 23°28′♄23°Uranus in Scorpio · 20°36′♅20°Neptune in Sagittarius · 18°47′♆18°Pluto in Libra · 19°57′♇19°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableMarssquareUranus0.9° to 1.4° orb

    Jon’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb

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

  • stableMarssextilePluto1.6° to 2.0° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter2.7° to 3.3° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune2.7° to 3.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus2.9° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter3.4° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.8° to 5.3° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars5.8° to 6.5° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus6.7° to 7.9° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 11°35′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 6°58′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 16°56′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 18°46′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 12°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Neptune 0.0°
  • Chiron opposition Sun 1.8°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.8°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.8°

Jon’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Jon’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.

  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.0°
  • Sun semi-square Saturn 1.3°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.7°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.9°

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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal

Jon’s cards

Computed from November 2, 1979. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1702754 (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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Quick answers about Jon M. Chu’s chart

How old is Jon M. Chu?
Jon M. Chu is 47 years old, born November 2, 1979 in Palo Alto, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jon M. Chu?
Jon M. Chu is a Scorpio: born November 2, 1979, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Jon M. Chu's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 2, 1979 birth.
What is Jon M. Chu's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Jon M. Chu's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jon M. Chu's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jon M. Chu's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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