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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Ox, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Justin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Justin sits
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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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
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
No documented birth time exists for Justin Kaplan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Justin’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableSunsextileSaturn2.1° to 3.0° orb
Justin’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineJupiter2.1° to 2.8° orb
Justin’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMars2.4° to 2.8° orb
Justin’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableVenussquarePluto2.6° to 3.7° orb
Justin’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.6° to 2.7° orb
Justin’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.3° to 3.5° orb
Justin’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableVenussquareJupiter4.3° to 5.5° orb
Justin’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSaturntrinePluto4.4° orb
Justin’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°51′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Justin may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCancer 27°12′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Justin is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosLeo 6°30′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Justin loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaCancer 12°49′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Justin is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 29°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Justin guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Justin’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Justin is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Justin’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Justin Kaplan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Justin’s cards
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☿ Ruled by Mercury
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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
No birth time is on public record for Justin Kaplan, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Justin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6317756, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same Justin Kaplan at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Ox.
- 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 time was Justin Kaplan born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Justin Kaplan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the September 5, 1925 birth date.
- What was Justin Kaplan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 5, 1925 birth date.
- 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.
