Justin Kaplan
Justin Kaplan (born September 5, 1925, Manhattan, United States; died 2014), was an American writer and editor. Kaplan's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, National Book Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Justin Kaplan’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Justin
Justin Kaplan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Justin in the U.S.?
#233
US rank in 2025
~794,273
Americans share it since 1880
1988
its peak year
In 1925, 132 American boys were registered Justin — 534th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Justin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
5
Soul Urge · freedom
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
Justin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
22 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
The record
What sets Justin apart
Freddie Mercury (1946) and Bukayo Saka (2001) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Justin, according to the stars
Core essence
Justin notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Justin is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Justin runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Justin needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Justin wants to be loved
Justin wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Justin gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Justin creates
How Justin makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Justin 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: Justin is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Justin is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Justin channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Justin's birth date. Working below.
Where Justin sits
Six lines
Justin’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Justin Kaplan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Manhattan was Vega, in Lyra, 84.3° up.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Manhattan on any night.
Sun 18° below the horizon, Moon down and 87% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Justin's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Venus · 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.
Score your own chart →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Justin Kaplan's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 5, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Justin Kaplan was born on September 5, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
Justin Kaplan's birth date, September 5, 1925, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Justin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Justin Kaplan's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Justin Kaplan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
Justin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Aries 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
stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
Justin’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMarssextilePluto0.4° to 1.0° orb
Justin’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextilePluto1.4° to 2.4° orb
Justin’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.7° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn2.1° to 3.0° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter2.1° to 2.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars2.4° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussquarePluto2.6° to 3.7° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.3° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter4.3° to 5.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Justin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°51′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 27°12′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 6°30′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 12°49′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.3°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.3°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.8°
Justin’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Saturn; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Justin’s chart
T-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Pluto, VenusAn 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.
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.2°
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Justin’s cards
Computed from September 5, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
22 · Master Builder☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Justin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6317756 (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 Justin Kaplan at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Justin Kaplan.
Quick answers about Justin Kaplan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Justin Kaplan?
- Justin Kaplan was a Virgo: born September 5, 1925, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Justin Kaplan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 5, 1925 birth.
- What was Justin Kaplan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Justin Kaplan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Justin Kaplan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Justin Kaplan's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
