Jonathan Brandis
Jonathan Brandis (born April 13, 1976, Danbury, United States; died 2003), was an American actor. Brandis is best remembered for Ride with the Devil, SeaQuest DSV and It. Brandis's honours include Young Artist Awards.
Jonathan Brandis’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Jonathan
Jonathan Brandis’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Jonathan in the U.S.?
#89
US rank in 2025
~874,440
Americans share it since 1880
1988
its peak year
In 1976, 11,314 American boys and 82 girls were registered Jonathan — 31st among boys and 1,320th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jonathan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
Jonathan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1976, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Jonathan apart
SeaQuest DSV, It and Ride with the Devil. That is the work the name is attached to.
The schooling ran through Brighton Hall School.
Cause of death is recorded as hanging to death.
Glenn Howerton shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- SeaQuest DSV, It and Ride with the Devil
- Educated at
- Brighton Hall School
- Awards
- Young Artist Awards (1994)
- Working from
- 1978
- Cause of death
- hanging to death
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 38
What the chart says
Jonathan, according to the stars
Core essence
Jonathan leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Jonathan is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Jonathan cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Jonathan needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Jonathan wants to be loved
Jonathan 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 Jonathan creates
How Jonathan 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. Jonathan 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: Jonathan is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Jonathan is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Jonathan does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Jonathan's birth date. Working below.
Where Jonathan sits
Six lines
Jonathan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Jonathan Brandis
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Danbury 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 Danbury that night
Computed for 41.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Danbury was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 87.2° up.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Danbury sits at 41.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Danbury at all: they sit past the −48.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 25° below the horizon.
How unusual Jonathan's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →Jonathan Brandis at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Jonathan Brandis's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 13, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Jonathan Brandis was born on April 13, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Jonathan Brandis's birth date, April 13, 1976, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Jonathan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jonathan Brandis' date-only chart is Mercury opposition Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Jonathan Brandis combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Jonathan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 20° Libra 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
stableMercuryoppositionUranus0.0° to 2.0° orb
Jonathan’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus1.2° to 1.5° orb
Jonathan’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.5° to 3.2° orb
Jonathan’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsquareSaturn1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableMarssquarePluto2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.8° to 4.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.5° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Jonathan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 27°26′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 20°02′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 2°55′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 3°07′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 18°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 2.5°
Jonathan’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Jonathan’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Venus, 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.0°
- Mercury biquintile Neptune 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.3°
Born the same day as Jonathan
Glenn Howerton was born on April 13, 1976 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Danbury, at 41.4°N, nothing below −48.6° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Jonathan
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Born in United States
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- Fred SavageAmerican actor and director (born 1976)
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Fellow Aries suns
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on April 13
- Thomas Jefferson1743
- Samuel Beckett1906
- Seamus Heaney1939
- Julius Nyerere1922
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- Kyle Howard1978
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Jemima KirkeBritish-American artist and actress
- Lauren JaureguiAmerican singer and songwriter (born 1996)
- Steven KruegerAmerican actor
Other Aries Dragon charts
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- Gregory RousseauAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Greg DulcichAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Evergreen Pioneers
- David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of FleetCanadian hereditary peer
- Nikolai Buinovbusinessperson (b. 1967)
- Janice McNairAmerican businesswoman and NFL team owner
- Penny PritzkerAmerican billionaire businesswoman (born 1959)
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Jonathan’s cards
Computed from April 13, 1976. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
4 · Architect♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jonathan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q317539 (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 Airwolfberlin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jonathan Brandis at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jonathan Brandis.
Quick answers about Jonathan Brandis’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jonathan Brandis?
- Jonathan Brandis was an Aries: born April 13, 1976, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Jonathan Brandis's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 13, 1976 birth.
- What was Jonathan Brandis's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jonathan Brandis's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jonathan Brandis's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jonathan Brandis's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
