Jonathan Larson
Jonathan Larson (born February 4, 1960, White Plains, United States; died 1996), was an American composer and playwright. Larson is best remembered for Superbia, Tick, Tick... Boom! and Rent. Larson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Tony Award for Best Original Score.
Jonathan Larson’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Jonathan
Jonathan Larson’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
The SSA recorded 3,343 American boys and 11 girls named Jonathan in 1960: 118th among boys and 4,027th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jonathan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
6
Soul Urge · being needed
3
Personality · bright, quick
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 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Violet · Ivory · Gold
The record
What sets Jonathan apart
Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931) and Jenny Shipley (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Jonathan, according to the stars
Core essence
Jonathan is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Jonathan is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Jonathan is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Jonathan needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How Jonathan wants to be loved
Jonathan wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Jonathan you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Jonathan creates
How Jonathan makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Jonathan creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Jonathan is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Jonathan does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Larson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above White Plains 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 White Plains that night
Computed for 41.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at White Plains was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 86.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.
White Plains sits at 41.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from White Plains on any night.
Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon up and 55% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Jonathan's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Sun · A leaning bowl
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
Jonathan Larson's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 4, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Rat
Earth RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Jonathan Larson was born on February 4, 1960, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
Jonathan Larson's birth date, February 4, 1960, 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 Larson's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jonathan Larson combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Jonathan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Taurus 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
stableSunsquareMoon0.0° to 6.7° orb
Jonathan’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
stableMoontrineMars0.1° to 5.7° orb
Jonathan’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileNeptune0.7° to 1.9° orb
Jonathan’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.4° to 3.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn2.3° to 2.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.2° to 4.3° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.4° to 5.6° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune5.3° to 6.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.4° to 5.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Jonathan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 26°36′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 23°10′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 6°28′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 25°24′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°33′ (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 Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.4°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.0°
- Eros square Neptune 2.7°
Jonathan’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Jonathan’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.
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.7°
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Jonathan’s cards
Computed from February 4, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
4 · Architect♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jonathan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q449002 (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 Jonathan Larson 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 Larson.
Quick answers about Jonathan Larson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jonathan Larson?
- Jonathan Larson was an Aquarius: born February 4, 1960, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Jonathan Larson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 4, 1960 birth.
- What was Jonathan Larson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jonathan Larson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jonathan Larson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jonathan Larson's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
