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Jordan McLaughlin

Jordan McLaughlin (born April 9, 1996, Pasadena, United States), aged 30, is an American basketball player. McLaughlin has played for Minnesota Timberwolves, USC Trojans men's basketball and Long Island Nets.

Jordan McLaughlin’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Jordan McLaughlin’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Diplomat

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Jordan in the U.S.?

#131

US rank in 2025

~536,795

Americans share it since 1880

1990

its peak year

The SSA recorded 13,852 American boys and 6,299 girls named Jordan in 1996: 27th among boys and 49th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jordan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

11

Soul Urge · insight

7

Personality · composed, private

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

Jordan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 3

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 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, 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 Jordan apart

The schooling ran through Etiwanda High School and University of Southern California.

Jordan McLaughlin was 22 when the work began in 2018.

Wikipedia files Jordan McLaughlin under Sportspeople from Rancho Cucamonga, California, Basketball players from Pasadena, California and Etiwanda High School alumni.

Giovani Lo Celso and Chase McLaughlin shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Etiwanda High School and University of Southern California
Working from
2018
Sport
basketball
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
13

What the chart says

Jordan, according to the stars

Core essence

Jordan 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 Jordan 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.

How Jordan wants to be loved

Jordan wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Jordan like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Jordan creates

How Jordan makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Jordan creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.

Instinct

Instinct: Jordan 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Jordan is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Jordan gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Jordan's birth date. Working below.

Where Jordan sits

Six lines

Jordan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Jordan

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Jordan

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Jordan

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jordan

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Jordan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Jordan

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jordan McLaughlin

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pasadena 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 Pasadena that night

Computed for 34.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Pasadena was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 76.5° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 101 catalog stars were up in all.

Pasadena sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 60% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 20° below the horizon.

How unusual Jordan's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Aries · No Water planets · 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.

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The quick version

Aries Sun

Runs at it head first.

Jordan McLaughlin's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 9, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Fire Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Jordan McLaughlin was born on April 9, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 2

Listens first, then decides.

Jordan McLaughlin's birth date, April 9, 1996, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Jordan’s chart

Jordan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 1° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 1.2° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.5° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.5° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.5° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.6° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 3° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.5° orbSun in Aries · 20°12′☉20°Moon in Capricorn · 4°26′☽4°Mercury in Taurus · 3°14′☿3°Venus in Gemini · 5°45′♀5°Mars in Aries · 12°31′♂12°Jupiter in Capricorn · 16°42′♃16°Saturn in Aries · 0°17′♄0°Uranus in Aquarius · 4°14′♅4°Neptune in Capricorn · 27°39′♆27°Pluto in Sagittarius · 2°47′ · retrograde♇℞2°

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

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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

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.1° to 2.0° orb

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

  • stableVenustrineUranus1.1° to 2.0° orb

    Jordan’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.4° to 1.5° orb

    Jordan’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSaturntrinePluto2.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto2.5° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.6° to 2.7° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter3.0° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMarssquareJupiter3.8° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus3.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune4.6° to 6.5° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune6.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars7.6° to 7.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 10°27′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 15°50′

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 1°47′ (moves 0.94° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 26°08′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 21°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.4°
  • Eros square Saturn 1.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.5°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 2.1°

Jordan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Jordan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree 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.

  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
  • Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.1°

Born the same day as Jordan

2 other people here were born on April 9, 1996, 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 34.1°N, the sky above Pasadena stops at −55.9° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Jordan’s cards

Computed from April 9, 1996. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Diplomat

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Fire.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jordan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q55583972 (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 Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Jordan McLaughlin at Wikipedia, Instagram and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jordan McLaughlin.

Quick answers about Jordan McLaughlin’s chart

How old is Jordan McLaughlin?
Jordan McLaughlin is 30 years old, born April 9, 1996 in Pasadena, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jordan McLaughlin?
Jordan McLaughlin is an Aries: born April 9, 1996, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Jordan McLaughlin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 9, 1996 birth.
How tall is Jordan McLaughlin?
Jordan McLaughlin is 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Jordan McLaughlin's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Jordan McLaughlin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jordan McLaughlin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jordan McLaughlin's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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