Terry Jones
Terry Jones (born February 1, 1942, Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom; died 2020), was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer. Jones is best remembered for Absolutely Anything. Jones's honours include Children's Book Award (UK), European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award and Time Machine Award.
Terry Jones’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Terry
Terry Jones’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Terry in the U.S.?
#1116
US rank in 2025
~521,478
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1942, Terry came 52nd among boys and 235th among girls, carried by 4,810 American boys and 818 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Terry’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on T (2) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Terry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Terry apart
Gabriel Batistuta (1969) and Lisa Marie Presley (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Terry, according to the stars
Core essence
Terry is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Terry is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Terry needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Terry needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Terry wants to be loved
Terry wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Terry be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Terry creates
How Terry makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Terry creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Terry is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Terry is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Terry leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Terry is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Terry's birth date. Working below.
Where Terry sits
Six lines
Terry’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Terry Jones
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Colwyn Bay 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 Colwyn Bay that night
Computed for 53.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Capella stood nearest the zenith over Colwyn Bay at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.0° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 110 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 53.3°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −36.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Colwyn Bay on any night.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.
How unusual Terry's chart is
Chart pattern score
75 / 100 · Rare
6 planets retrograde · 3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Mars
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 →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Terry Jones's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 1, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Terry Jones was born on February 1, 1942, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Terry Jones's birth date, February 1, 1942, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Terry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Terry Jones' date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Eight of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Terry Jones combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Terry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Leo 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 1.1° orb
Terry’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSunoppositionMoon0.1° to 6.8° orb
Terry’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 7.9° orb
Terry’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysquareUranus0.6° to 0.7° orb
stableSunsquareMars1.0° to 1.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.3° to 2.9° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter2.3° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussquareMars2.8° to 3.9° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.2° to 5.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed8 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.
Terry’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 11°24′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 13°20′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 29°32′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°52′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Eros square Neptune 0.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.5°
- Chiron opposition Sun 0.6°
- Chiron square Mars 0.7°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.7°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 1.4°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 2.3°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.5°
- Chiron opposition Venus 2.6°
- Ceres square Mars 2.6°
Terry’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Pluto; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Terry’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.8°
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Fellow Aquarius suns
- Jenny ShipleyNew Zealand politician
- Peter SaganSlovak cycling champion
- Sasha PieterseSouth African actress, singer
Born in Snake years
- Eugene KasperskyRussian specialist in the information security field
- Lyudmila KoganRussian businesswoman
- David GreenAmerican businessman, founder of Hobby Lobby, born 1941
Also born on February 1
- Gabriel Batistuta1969
- Lisa Marie Presley1968
- Ronda Rousey1987
- Michael C. Hall1971
- Rick James1948
- Lauren Conrad1986
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Frank X WalkerAfrican-American poet from Kentucky (1961- )
- George Ella LyonAmerican writer from Kentucky (1949- )
- Joe SurvantAmerican Kentucky poet laureate (1942- )
Other Aquarius Snake charts
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- Chord OverstreetAmerican actor, singer and musician
- Maura TierneyAmerican actress
- Hudson WilliamsCanadian actor (born 2001)
Other Evergreen Scholars
- JisooSouth Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and model
- Doja CatAmerican singer and rapper
- Isla FisherAustralian actress and author
- Elizabeth HurleyEnglish actress and model
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Kristi YamaguchiAmerican figure skater
- Rachel ZoeAmerican fashion stylist
- Pete WentzAmerican musician
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Terry’s cards
Computed from February 1, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
1 · Pioneer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Terry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q166159 (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 Eduardo Unda-Sanzana, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Terry Jones at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 Terry Jones.
Quick answers about Terry Jones’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Terry Jones?
- Terry Jones was an Aquarius: born February 1, 1942, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Terry Jones's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 1, 1942 birth.
- What was Terry Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Terry Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Terry Jones's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Terry Jones's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
