Jack Kerouac’s birth chart
Born 12 March 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts, at 17:00 (Rodden B).
Pisces Sun · Virgo Moon · Virgo rising
Jack Kerouac’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on 12 March 1922, a Sunday. The Sun was in Pisces, so Pisces was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Virgo and Virgo rising. Jack died on 21 October 1969, aged 47. The birth time, 17:00, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of B, which means it was taken from a biography or autobiography.
By element the count is four water, three air, two fire and one earth. By modality the count is five mutable, three cardinal and two fixed. Sun, Venus and Uranus all fall in Pisces. Closest of the aspects is the square between Mars and Uranus, 0.3° from exact. Four planets were retrograde: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was full.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 12 March, among them Mitt Romney, Liza Minnelli and Stromae.
See the sky the night Jack was born: the stars over Lowell, Massachusetts at 17:00, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Jack Kerouac’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
21° Pisces 33'
A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make Jack Kerouac the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Virgo
13° Virgo 42'
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, Jack is likely to look for the practical cause and to calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. The lesson of this Moon is to accept help without a to-do list attached.
Rising sign
Virgo
13° Virgo 14'
Virgo rising gives Jack a first impression that is precise, observant and modest. People tend to trust the judgement of a Virgo rising and sometimes mistake that reserve for coolness, until they see how much help is on offer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 17:00 on 12 March 1922, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 21° Pisces 33' | House 7 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 13° Virgo 42' | House 1 |
| Mercury | 24° Aquarius 02' | House 6 |
| Venus | 29° Pisces 18' | House 7 |
| Mars | 10° Sagittarius 34' | House 4 |
| Jupiter | 16° Libra 44'℞ | House 2 |
| Saturn | 5° Libra 14'℞ | House 1 |
| Uranus | 10° Pisces 16' | House 6 |
| Neptune | 13° Leo 39'℞ | House 11 |
| Pluto | 7° Cancer 57'℞ | House 10 |
| North Node | 8° Libra 46' | House 2 |
| South Node | 8° Aries 46' | House 8 |
Jack Kerouac’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Jack Kerouac’s private life.
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and Jack Kerouac's vitality tends to ebb and flow with their surroundings. The thing to watch is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. There may be days when they feel unstoppable, and others when they need to disappear for a while.
The Sun in the seventh house brings a person into focus through one-to-one relationships, and Jack may see themselves most clearly through someone close. Partnership can seem less optional to Jack than to others, and a long stretch alone can feel like half a conversation.
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Jack's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Jack's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
The Moon in the first house tends to make Jack's moods visible almost immediately, so that how they feel colours how they come across before a single word has been said. Other people are apt to read that emotional weather quickly, sometimes before it has been named.
In Jack's chart, Mercury in Aquarius describes thinking that is original and a step removed from convention, and communication that works best through ideas rather than small talk. The stubborn streak is holding a position out of principle after the evidence has moved on. In a group, this is the person who asks the question nobody else thought to ask.
Jack thinks in systems and checklists, and in how to make an everyday process work a little better than it did before. With Mercury in the sixth house, analysing the small details of a routine is satisfying in itself, not a chore they merely put up with.
Venus in Pisces loves without much guard, and Jack probably values emotional and even spiritual connection over anything practical. The temptation can be to idealise a partner before really seeing them. Generosity in relationships comes easily here, and so does missing the moment when giving starts to outweigh getting.
In the seventh house, Venus points to a knack for making a relationship feel balanced, fair and warm, and in Jack's chart it suggests partnership is where their charm shows most. Committed pairing tends to appeal more than casual or short-term connection.
Mars in Sagittarius acts boldly and wants room to move while doing it, and its anger flares fast over anything that feels like a limit on freedom. Jack may speak bluntly in the heat of the moment and smooth it over later. Given the choice, this placement walks away from a fight rather than staying to work it out.
Mars in the fourth house puts a lot of energy into home and family, and in Jack's chart it points to a protective instinct towards the people close to them. The placement is also linked with an urge to build, repair and rearrange, so that home is rarely a place that stands still.
Jupiter in Libra
16° Libra 44' ℞ · second house
growth and excess
In Jack's chart, Jupiter in Libra suggests growth through partnership and a gift for bringing people together. Excess here looks like pleasing people so broadly that every expectation becomes a commitment. Someone with this Jupiter is often the connector whose introductions and events other people benefit from more than they realise.
Open-handedness is the mark of Jupiter in the second house, and Jack would probably rather share a good thing than guard it. Their values widen as more of the world is seen, and rarely stay fixed for long.
For Jack, Saturn in Libra means discipline built around relationships, and fairness and commitment are trusted slowly. The doubt is overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. With time, people with this Saturn tend to become the ones others rely on to negotiate and to keep things fair.
Seriousness tends to arrive early with Saturn in the first house, and Jack's self-confidence is the kind that comes through lived experience rather than being handed over at the start. They would rather build slowly and with care, and trust what is made that way.
Uranus in Pisces
10° Pisces 16' · sixth house
freedom, generational
Jack has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
With Uranus in the sixth house, Jack is often the inventive one at work, finding shortcuts or better systems that other people miss. A rigid, unchanging routine is apt to wear on Jack faster than on most, however sensible it looks.
Neptune in Leo
13° Leo 39' ℞ · eleventh house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Jack alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Friendships and causes with an idealistic edge draw Jack, who may hold a vision for their community that reaches well beyond the practical. With Neptune in the eleventh house, disappointment can follow when a group falls short of that vision, even when its effort was sincere.
Pluto in Cancer
7° Cancer 57' ℞ · tenth house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Jack to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Influence may matter more to Jack than surface status, and with Pluto in the tenth house, a working life that stops meaning something may well be reinvented. Pluto here is associated with caring more about public power than public popularity, two things that are easy to confuse.
Aspects in Jack Kerouac’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Mars square Uranus
0.3° separating
This square can make drive turn abrupt, leading to sudden decisions or breaks that surprise Jack Kerouac as much as they surprise everyone nearby. A brief pause before the impulsive move keeps the courage and loses the recklessness.
Saturn square Pluto
2.7° separating
Saturn square Pluto sets the need for control against the instinct for transformation, and Jack may grip a structure most tightly at the very moment it needs to change. Each old form that is let go leaves a strength behind that is more real than the grip was.
Mars trine Neptune
3.1° applying
An inspired, almost effortless way of pursuing creative or compassionate goals belongs to Mars trine Neptune, which puts Jack's drive and imagination in step. Energy and vision arrive together, so starting a meaningful project is likely to feel far less daunting than it looks from outside.
Jupiter sextile Neptune
3.1° applying
Inspired ideas are within Jack's reach without any loss of footing, since possibility and imagination are gently linked by this sextile. The optimism is soft and workable, useful for keeping a project hopeful without letting it drift far from what is real.
Moon square Mars
3.1° separating
Feeling and the impulse to act can clash when the Moon is square Mars, and the result is quick reactions that Jack may later have to walk back. A breath between feeling and acting turns all that energy into something more useful.
Moon opposition Uranus
3.4° separating
The Moon opposite Uranus pairs a wish for emotional closeness with a reflex to pull back the moment things feel too settled. For Jack, naming that reflex out loud to the people closest to them is likely to work better than acting on it silently.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Uranus trine Pluto2.3°
- Moon sextile Pluto5.8°
- Venus opposition Saturn5.9°
- Sun conjunction Venus7.7°
- Sun opposition Moon7.8°
Pisces Sun and Virgo Moon, like Jack Kerouac
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How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (Bio/autobiography). Birth time rated B on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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