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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Jon
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 1898
1964
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1969, Jon came 68th among boys and 2,318th among girls, carried by 4,213 American boys and 31 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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 · 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 record
What sets Jon apart
Cher (1946) and José Mujica (1935) 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 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. 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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chattanooga 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 Chattanooga that night
Computed for 35.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chattanooga at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 12.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 35.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −55.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chattanooga on any night.
The Moon, 19% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 4° below the horizon.
How unusual Jon's chart is
Chart pattern score
59 / 100 · Unusual
6 planets retrograde · 2 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet
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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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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 22° Cancer 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
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
stableMercuryoppositionMars1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableUranussextileNeptune2.7° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter2.8° to 3.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.7° orb
stableVenustrineMars3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.5° to 7.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 5°50′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 11°01′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 3°04′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 13°48′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 7°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Saturn 0.5°
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.4°
Jon’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Jon’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.4°
- Mars quintile Uranus 1.4°
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More charts like Jon’s
Fellow Taurus suns
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- Nancy Walton LaurieAmerican heiress, billionaire
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Born in Rooster years
- Bachtiar KarimIndonesian businessman
- Takemitsu TakizakiJapanese businessman
- Seo Jung-jinSouth Korean entrepreneur
Also born on May 20
- Cher1946
- José Mujica1935
- Petr Čech1982
- Timothy Olyphant1968
- Tony Goldwyn1960
- Cindy McCain1954
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- ChangbinSouth Korean rapper, dancer, singer and songwriter
- LaufeyIcelandic singer-songwriter (born 1999)
- Peyton MeyerAmerican actor
Other Taurus Rooster charts
- Whitney LeavittAmerican social media personality
- Cate BlanchettAustralian actor and producer
- Jessica AlbaAmerican actress
- Daniel Day-LewisBritish actor
Other Evergreen Architects
- BeyoncéAmerican singer-songwriter
- Narendra ModiPrime Minister of India since 2014
- James Clerk MaxwellScottish physicist
- Zlatan IbrahimovićSwedish association football player
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Jacinto BenaventeSpanish writer
- Jaroslav HeyrovskýCzech chemist
- Antony HewishEnglish physicist and radio astronomer
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Jon’s cards
Computed from May 20, 1969. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6271233 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Jon Meacham's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jon Meacham's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
