Maynard James Keenan
Maynard James Keenan (born James Herbert Keenan; April 17, 1964, Ravenna, United States), aged 62, is an American singer.
Maynard James Keenan’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Maynard
Maynard James Keenan’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Maynard in the U.S.?
#10325
US rank in 2025
~14,940
Americans share it since 1880
1922
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1964, Maynard came 917th, carried by 69 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Maynard’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name James Herbert Keenan, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
9
Soul Urge · meaning
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Maynard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
The record
What sets Maynard apart
Victoria Beckham (1974) and Jennifer Garner (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Maynard, according to the stars
Core essence
Maynard 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 Maynard 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Maynard is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Maynard needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Maynard wants to be loved
Maynard 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 Maynard like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Maynard creates
How Maynard 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. Maynard 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: Maynard is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Maynard is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Maynard 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 Maynard's birth date. Working below.
Where Maynard sits
Six lines
Maynard’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Maynard James Keenan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ravenna 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 Ravenna that night
Computed for 41.16°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Ravenna at 9 p.m. that evening, 89.5° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 38% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 19° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- James Herbert Keenan
- Known as
- Maynard James Keenan
- Born in
- Ravenna, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Maynard James Keenan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Maynard's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Maynard James Keenan's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 17, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Maynard James Keenan was born on April 17, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Maynard James Keenan's birth date, April 17, 1964, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Maynard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Maynard James Keenan's date-only chart is Mercury trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Maynard James Keenan combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Maynard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Cancer 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
stableMercurytrinePluto0.4° orb
Maynard’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquarePluto0.8° to 1.8° orb
Maynard’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.0° to 1.2° orb
Maynard’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileMars1.6° to 1.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter3.2° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.8° to 5.0° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune5.5° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.7° orb
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Maynard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 17°02′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 6°33′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 15°21′ (moves 0.83° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°13′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 10°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.0°
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.4°
- Eros opposition Neptune 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 2.8°
Maynard’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Maynard’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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 2.1°
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More charts like Maynard’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Kevin FederlineAmerican rapper and entertainer (born 1978)
- Blake Fielder-CivilBritish actor
- David HarbourAmerican actor (born 1975)
Born in Dragon years
- Ivan PerišićCroatian footballer (born 1989)
- Ayumu SekoJapanese association football player
- Pedro NetoPortuguese footballer (born 2000)
Also born on April 17
- Victoria Beckham1974
- Jennifer Garner1972
- J. P. Morgan1837
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- Phoebe Dynevor1995
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
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- NinjaAmerican livestreamer and vlogger
- Kate SpadeAmerican fashion designer
Other Aries Dragon charts
- Corneille HeymansBelgian physiologist
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- Gary RuvkunAmerican geneticist
- Anatole FranceFrench writer
Other Radiant Pioneers
- Anthony James LeggettBritish physicist
- Adolf WindausGerman chemist
- Kenzaburō ŌeJapanese writer and Nobel Laureate
- John Robert SchriefferAmerican physicist
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Bruno MarsAmerican singer-songwriter and record producer
- George MichaelEnglish singer
- Uma ThurmanAmerican actress and model
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Maynard’s cards
Computed from April 17, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Maynard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q311621 (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 swimfinfan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Maynard James Keenan.
Quick answers about Maynard James Keenan’s chart
- How old is Maynard James Keenan?
- Maynard James Keenan is 62 years old, born April 17, 1964 in Ravenna, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Maynard James Keenan?
- Maynard James Keenan is an Aries: born April 17, 1964, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Maynard James Keenan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 17, 1964 birth.
- What is Maynard James Keenan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Maynard James Keenan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Maynard James Keenan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Maynard James Keenan's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
