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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.How compatible are you with Terry Jones?
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Terry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Terry sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
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
No documented birth time exists for Terry Jones, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Leo 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 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
Terry’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquareMars1.0° to 1.5° orb
Terry’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.3° to 2.9° orb
Terry’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineJupiter2.3° to 2.9° orb
Terry’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableVenussquareMars2.8° to 3.9° orb
Terry’s affections grind against their drive.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.3° orb
Terry’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.6° orb
Terry’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb
Terry’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareSaturn5.2° to 5.3° orb
Terry’s mind grinds against their discipline.
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
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 ℞Leo 11°24′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Terry performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresAquarius 13°20′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Terry is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosSagittarius 29°32′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Terry attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 25°52′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Terry is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Terry that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Terry’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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Terry is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Terry’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.
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 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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Terry Jones, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Also born on February 1
- Gabriel Batistuta1969
- Lisa Marie Presley1968
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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
Every card is computed from February 1, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Terry Jones, 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
Terry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q166159, 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.
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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
- 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 time was Terry Jones 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 Terry Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the February 1, 1942 birth date.
- What was Terry Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 1, 1942 birth date.
- 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.
