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KJ Apa

KJ Apa (born Keneti James Fitzgerald Apa; June 17, 1997, Auckland, New Zealand), aged 29, is a New Zealand actor. Notable films include Riverdale, A Dog's Purpose and The Hate U Give.

KJ Apa’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Ox, with Life Path 22 in numerology.

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KJ Apa’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Explorer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.

How common is the name KJ Apa in the U.S.?

#7021

US rank in 2025

~229

Americans share it since 1993

2021

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Kj falls under that line for 1997. Its peak came in 2021, and 229 Americans have carried it since 1993.

US Social Security Administration public records

What KJ Apa’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Keneti James Fitzgerald Apa, not the name they published under.

22

Expression · building at scale

6

Soul Urge · being needed

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on K (2) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

KJ Apa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

22 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy

Rose pink · Lilac · 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 1997, 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 KJ Apa apart

Training came by way of King's College, Auckland.

The working life starts in 2013, at 16.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for KJ Apa: New Zealand male soap opera actors, Samoan chiefs and People educated at King's College, Auckland.

Barry Manilow (1943) and Venus Williams (1980) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
King's College, Auckland
Instruments
voice
Working from
2013
Citizenship
New Zealand
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
34

What the chart says

KJ Apa, according to the stars

Core essence

KJ Apa is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. KJ Apa needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, KJ Apa feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What KJ Apa needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How KJ Apa wants to be loved

KJ Apa wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. KJ Apa gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How KJ Apa creates

How KJ Apa makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. KJ Apa creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

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

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. KJ Apa 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 KJ Apa 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 KJ Apa's birth date. Working below.

Where KJ Apa sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
KJ Apa

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
KJ Apa

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
KJ Apa

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
KJ Apa

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
KJ Apa

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
KJ Apa

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to KJ Apa

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Auckland on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

KJ Apa’s birth-night reference starMenkentwarm orange · CentaurusMenkent, in Centaurus. A warm orange star, 86.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkent →The warmest lightRigil Kentaurusyellow · CentaurusRigil Kentaurus, in Centaurus. A yellow star, 65.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Rigil Kentaurus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Auckland that night

Computed for 36.85°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Auckland at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkent of Centaurus, within 3.1° of the exact zenith.

Canopus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 66 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 36.8°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

The Moon, 87% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Keneti James Fitzgerald Apa
Known as
KJ Apa
Born in
Auckland, New Zealand

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for KJ Apa: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual KJ's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 planet at a critical degree

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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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

KJ Apa's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 17, 1997, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Fire Ox

Stubborn, and usually right.

KJ Apa was born on June 17, 1997, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 22

The cathedral builder.

KJ Apa's birth date, June 17, 1997, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 22 means →

What stands out in KJ Apa’s chart

KJ Apa’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.3° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.4° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 3° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 3.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.2° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.3° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.2° orbSun in Gemini · 25°51′☉25°Moon in Scorpio · 8°29′☽8°Mercury in Gemini · 15°19′☿15°Venus in Cancer · 15°40′♀15°Mars in Virgo · 28°59′♂28°Jupiter in Aquarius · 21°52′ · retrograde♃℞21°Saturn in Aries · 18°38′♄18°Uranus in Aquarius · 8°12′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Capricorn · 29°26′ · retrograde♆℞29°Pluto in Sagittarius · 3°38′ · retrograde♇℞3°

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

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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

  • stableMoonsquareUranus0.0° to 6.7° orb

    KJ Apa’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune0.2° to 0.7° orb

    KJ Apa’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn2.3° to 4.3° orb

    KJ Apa’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn2.4° to 3.6° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars2.9° to 3.4° orb

  • stableJupitersextileSaturn3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter3.5° to 4.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto4.4° to 4.9° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto4.6° orb

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 1.4° to 12.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 2.7° to 15.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

KJ Apa’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 25°43′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 12°39′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries or Taurus during this date

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 0°51′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 9°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Sun 0.1°
  • Eros square Neptune 0.5°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 1.4°
  • Hygiea trine Mars 1.9°
  • Ceres square Mercury 2.7°
  • Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.8°

KJ Apa’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in KJ Apa’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 sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.0°
  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.3°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
  • Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.1°
  • Venus quintile Mars 1.3°

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KJ Apa’s cards

Computed from June 17, 1997. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Emperor

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

22 · Master Builder

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

KJ Apa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q24186718 (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 Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same KJ Apa at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by KJ Apa.

Quick answers about KJ Apa’s chart

How old is KJ Apa?
KJ Apa is 29 years old, born June 17, 1997 in Auckland, New Zealand.
What zodiac sign is KJ Apa?
KJ Apa is a Gemini: born June 17, 1997, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is KJ Apa's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 17, 1997 birth.
What is KJ Apa's Life Path number?
Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
What is KJ Apa's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is KJ Apa's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is KJ Apa's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 1 major aspect). Uranus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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