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Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933, Tokyo, Japan, 20:30), aged 93, is a Japanese artist and activist based in the United States. Ono is best known for Wish Tree for Washington, DC and SKY. Ono's honours include Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Music Film and MOJO Awards.

Yoko Ono’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Yoko Ono’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Yoko in the U.S.?

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outside the current top list

~476

Americans share it since 1923

1981

its peak year

In 1933, 11 American girls were registered Yoko — 2,682nd on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Yoko’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

6

Soul Urge · being needed

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on Y (7) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

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

Yoko’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1933, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Yoko apart

SKY and Wish Tree for Washington, DC. That is the work the name is attached to.

The schooling ran through Gakushuin University.

Yoko Ono was 28 when the work began in 1961.

On the family side, Yoko Ono was born to Isoko Ono and Eisuke Ono, married John Lennon and Anthony Cox and raised 4 children.

On Wikipedia the categories read Fluxus, Japanese conceptual artists and Family of John Lennon.

Toni Morrison (1931) and John Travolta (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
SKY and Wish Tree for Washington, DC
Educated at
Gakushuin University
Instruments
piano and voice
Awards
Grammy Award for Album of the Year (1981), Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (2005) and Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award (2010)
Nominated for
Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and Grammy Award for Best New New Jack Swing Artist
Working from
1961
Citizenship
Japan and United States
Languages
Japanese and English
Wikipedia editions
98

What the chart says

Yoko, according to the stars

Core essence

Yoko is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Yoko 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, Yoko is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Yoko needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Yoko wants to be loved

Yoko 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 Yoko be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Yoko creates

How Yoko 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. Yoko 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: Yoko is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Yoko is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Yoko 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 Yoko's birth date. Working below.

Where Yoko sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Yoko

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Yoko

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Yoko

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Yoko

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

PracticalVisionary
Yoko

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Yoko

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Yoko Ono

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

Read from the sky above Tokyo at 20:30, Yoko Ono’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Tokyo that night

Computed for 35.68°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Tokyo was Mebsuta, in Gemini, 79.5° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.

Tokyo sits at 35.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Tokyo at all: they sit past the −54.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon down and 40% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Tokyo, Japan
Lives in
Tokyo · London

Wikidata records Tokyo and London as Yoko Ono's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

Tokyo is both the birthplace and the home on record. Shared Places reads Tokyo as weak for this chart: 44 of 100, 127th of 173 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Boston, United States, at 100.

Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.

What Yoko's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Strategist 天機, The Elder 天梁 in 辰

Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Wealth

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 6/2

Emotional authority · Triple Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

69 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Moon

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.

Score your own chart →

If you only read one paragraph

Aquarius Sun

Ahead of the room by a decade.

Yoko Ono's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time.

What Aquarius means →

Water Rooster

Sharp eye, sharper tongue.

Yoko Ono was born on February 18, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 9

Endings come naturally.

Yoko Ono's birth date, February 18, 1933, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Yoko’s chart

Yoko’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbUranus grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.1° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.2° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.4° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.1° orbMoon opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 3.2° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 4° orbSun in Aquarius · 29°23′ · house 5☉29°Moon in Sagittarius · 11°08′ · house 3☽11°Mercury in Pisces · 7°54′ · house 6☿7°Venus in Aquarius · 13°47′ · house 5♀13°Mars in Virgo · 15°08′ · house 12 · retrograde♂℞15°Jupiter in Virgo · 20°42′ · house 12 · retrograde♃℞20°Saturn in Aquarius · 9°44′ · house 5♄9°Uranus in Aries · 20°33′ · house 7♅20°Neptune in Virgo · 9°05′ · house 12 · retrograde♆℞9°Pluto in Cancer · 21°38′ · house 10 · retrograde♇℞21°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLib 8°31′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAri 8°31′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCCnc 9°25′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICCap 9°25′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantLibra
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • JupitersextilePlutoseparating · 0.9° orb

    Yoko’s growth opens doors for their depths.

  • UranussquarePlutoapplying · 1.1° orb

    Yoko’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • MercuryoppositionNeptuneapplying · 1.2° orb

    Yoko’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.

  • MoonsextileSaturnseparating · 1.4° orb

  • MoonsquareNeptuneseparating · 2.1° orb

  • MoonsextileVenusapplying · 2.7° orb

  • MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 3.2° orb

  • MoonsquareMarsapplying · 4.0° orb

  • VenusconjunctionSaturnseparating · 4.0° orb

  • MarsconjunctionJupiterseparating · 5.6° orb

  • MarsconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 6.0° orb

  • MercuryoppositionMarsapplying · 7.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Yoko’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 23°44′ · House 8

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 0°30′ · House 6

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 17°44′ · House 3

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

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 25°49′ · House 2

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°32′ · House 9

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Sun 1.1°
  • Chiron sextile Pluto 2.1°
  • Eros square Mars 2.6°
  • Eros trine Uranus 2.8°
  • Eros square Jupiter 3.0°

Yoko’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☽ Moon6 pts

    disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Yoko’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Venus, SaturnThree 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Moon · Mercury, Neptune, MoonAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Moon · Mercury, Mars, MoonAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.1°
  • Mars biquintile Saturn 0.6°
  • Mars biquintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.7°
  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.9°
  • Saturn quintile Uranus 1.2°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.3°
  • Venus quincunx Mars 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.8°

Yoko’s houses

Yoko’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LibraVenus in Aquarius, house 5emptyself, body, how you arrive
2ScorpioPluto in Cancer, house 10emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3SagittariusJupiter in Virgo, house 12Moonmind, siblings, the local world
4CapricornSaturn in Aquarius, house 5emptyhome, family, roots
5AquariusUranus in Aries, house 7Sun, Venus, Saturncreativity, romance, play
6PiscesNeptune in Virgo, house 12Mercurywork, habits, health
7AriesMars in Virgo, house 12Uranuspartnership, marriage, open rivals
8TaurusVenus in Aquarius, house 5emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9GeminiMercury in Pisces, house 6emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10CancerMoon in Sagittarius, house 3Plutocareer, reputation, public life
11LeoSun in Aquarius, house 5emptyfriends, community, the future
12VirgoMercury in Pisces, house 6Mars, Jupiter, Neptunethe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Yoko’s family here

One relative of Yoko Ono also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Yoko’s cards

Computed from February 18, 1933. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

9 · Healer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

癸

yin Water

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Yoko’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q117012 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Yoko Ono at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Yoko Ono.

Quick answers about Yoko Ono’s chart

How old is Yoko Ono?
Yoko Ono is 93 years old, born February 18, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan.
What zodiac sign is Yoko Ono?
Yoko Ono is an Aquarius: born February 18, 1933, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
What is Yoko Ono's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 18, 1933 birth.
What time was Yoko Ono born?
20:30 local time in Tokyo, Japan, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Yoko Ono's rising sign?
Libra rising, calculated from the documented 20:30 birth time in Tokyo, Japan (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What is Yoko Ono's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Yoko Ono's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 23°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Yoko Ono's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 2°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Yoko Ono's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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