Vaughan Jones
Vaughan Jones (born December 31, 1952, Gisborne, New Zealand; died 2020), was a New Zealand mathematician and Fields Medalist. Jones's honours include Fields medal, Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit and Rutherford Medal.
Vaughan Jones’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dragon, with 
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Vaughan Jones’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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Americans share it since 1880
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Vaughan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Ivory · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Vaughan, according to the stars
Core essence
Vaughan is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Vaughan is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Vaughan 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 Vaughan needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Vaughan wants to be loved
Vaughan 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 Vaughan be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Vaughan creates
How Vaughan makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Vaughan creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Vaughan 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Vaughan is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Computed from Vaughan's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Vaughan 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 keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Vaughan Jones's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 31, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Vaughan Jones was born on December 31, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Vaughan Jones's birth date, December 31, 1952, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Vaughan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Vaughan Jones' date-only chart is Venus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Vaughan Jones combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Vaughan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Vaughan Jones, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Cancer 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.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Vaughan’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionPluto0.2° to 1.4° orb
Vaughan’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
Vaughan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.2° to 2.3° orb
Vaughan’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.7° to 3.1° orb
Vaughan’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.9° to 3.0° orb
Vaughan’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb
Vaughan’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.5° to 3.8° orb
Vaughan’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.1° to 3.3° orb
Vaughan’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.2° orb
Vaughan’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineSaturn3.6° to 4.3° orb
Vaughan’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarstrineNeptune6.0° to 6.7° orb
Vaughan’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Vaughan’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.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 13°31′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Vaughan is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 4°48′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Vaughan feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosCapricorn 19°24′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Vaughan is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 14°24′ (moves 0.03° 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. Vaughan is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 0°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Vaughan exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.4°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 2.5°
- Eros opposition Uranus 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°).
Vaughan’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. ♀ Venus8 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune7 pts
disposes Mars; 6 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Vaughan is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Vaughan’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Sun quintile Saturn 1.1°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 1.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Vaughan Jones, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Vaughan’s cards
Every card is computed from December 31, 1952, 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 Metal.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Vaughan 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
Vaughan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q369638, 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 David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Vaughan Jones 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 Vaughan Jones.
Quick answers about Vaughan Jones’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Vaughan Jones?
- Vaughan Jones was a Capricorn: born December 31, 1952, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon.
- What was Vaughan Jones's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 31, 1952 birth.
- What time was Vaughan 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 Vaughan Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the December 31, 1952 birth date.
- What was Vaughan Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 31, 1952 birth date.
- Where was Vaughan Jones's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Vaughan Jones's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
