Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham (born May 20, 1969, Chattanooga, United States), aged 57, is an American journalist and biographer (born 1969). Meacham's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography and National Humanities Medal.
Jon Meacham’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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Jon Meacham’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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 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
5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
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 the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Jon is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Jon is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Jon needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Jon wants to be loved
Jon wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
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 sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Jon has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Jon's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Jon Meacham in 15 seconds
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunSlow to move, slower to leave.
Jon Meacham's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 20, 1969, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterPrepared for everything, twice.
Jon Meacham was born on May 20, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Jon Meacham's birth date, May 20, 1969, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Jon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jon Meacham's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Jon Meacham combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Jon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jon Meacham, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 22° Cancer 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.
stableSuntrineUranus0.1° to 1.0° orb
Jon’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMoonsquareVenus0.1° to 6.3° orb
Jon’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.2° orb
Jon’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.7° to 2.7° orb
Jon’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryoppositionMars1.7° to 1.8° orb
Jon’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranussextileNeptune2.7° orb
Jon’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineJupiter2.8° to 3.8° orb
Jon’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.7° orb
Jon’s growth and depths act as one.
stableVenustrineMars3.8° to 4.7° orb
Jon’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.9° orb
Jon’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
Jon’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.5° to 7.6° orb
Jon’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
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.
⚷ ChironAries 5°50′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Jon may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAquarius 11°01′ (moves 0.09° 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.
♡ ErosTaurus 3°04′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Jon wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 13°48′ (moves 0.33° 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 LilithCancer 7°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Jon guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.5°
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Mars 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. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Jon is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.4°
- Mars quintile Uranus 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jon Meacham, 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 May 20, 1969, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jon Meacham, 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 Q6271233, 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.
Portrait by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jon Meacham at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jon Meacham.
Quick answers about Jon Meacham’s chart
- How old is Jon Meacham?
- Jon Meacham is 57 years old, born May 20, 1969 in Chattanooga, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jon Meacham?
- Jon Meacham is a Taurus: born May 20, 1969, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rooster.
- What is Jon Meacham's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 20, 1969 birth.
- What time was Jon Meacham 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 is Jon Meacham's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 20, 1969 birth date.
- What is Jon Meacham's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 20, 1969 birth date.
- Where is Jon Meacham's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jon Meacham's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
