John Travolta’s birth chart
Born 18 February 1954, in Englewood, New Jersey, at 14:53 (Rodden AA).
Aquarius Sun · Virgo Moon · Cancer rising
John Travolta’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
18 February 1954 was a Thursday: the day John Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey. Their zodiac sign is Aquarius, with the Moon in Virgo and Cancer rising. John turns 72 in 2026. The birth time, 14:53, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was quoted from a birth certificate or birth record.
By element the count is four water, three air, two fire and one earth. Mutable signs hold five, fixed signs three and cardinal signs two. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Venus and Mars: a square, 0.5° from exact. Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 18 other people born on 18 February, among them Yoko Ono, Dr. Dre and Roberto Baggio. Wikidata links John with one person in the dataset: Kelly Preston (married from 1991 until 2020).
See the sky the night John was born: the stars over Englewood, New Jersey at 14:53, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
John Travolta’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Aquarius
29° Aquarius 38'
An Aquarius Sun sees differently. Ideas ahead of their time, a wide circle of friends and a stubborn streak of independence are the marks of this placement in John Travolta's chart. The growth is letting people close without feeling caged.
Moon sign
Virgo
11° Virgo 10'
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, John 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
Cancer
29° Cancer 05'
With Cancer rising, John tends to come across as approachable and a little guarded. People often confide in a Cancer rising early and find that they are noticed in return; the shell opens on its own schedule.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 14:53 on 18 February 1954, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 29° Aquarius 38' | House 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 11° Virgo 10' | House 2 |
| Mercury | 15° Pisces 56' | House 9 |
| Venus | 4° Pisces 25' | House 8 |
| Mars | 4° Sagittarius 58' | House 5 |
| Jupiter | 16° Gemini 31' | House 11 |
| Saturn | 9° Scorpio 21'℞ | House 4 |
| Uranus | 19° Cancer 34'℞ | House 12 |
| Neptune | 25° Libra 55'℞ | House 4 |
| Pluto | 23° Leo 39'℞ | House 2 |
| North Node | 23° Capricorn 35' | House 6 |
| South Node | 23° Cancer 35' | House 12 |
John Travolta’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about John Travolta’s private life.
John Travolta's purpose, with the Sun in Aquarius, probably lies in being useful to a group or an idea bigger than themselves, with a vitality that rises around causes and communities. The tension can be detaching from their own needs while championing everyone else's. It is the placement of the reliable one at meetings who is the hardest person to reach one to one.
John is apt to go looking for what lies beneath the surface, in themselves and in the people close to them, and shallow exchanges may leave them cold. With the Sun in the eighth house, trust tends to become the ground their identity is built on, and opening up may wait until it exists.
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle John's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when John's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
Security, with the Moon in the second house, comes from familiar things and clearly held values, and for John sudden change or big leaps hold little appeal. When their sense of what matters is shaken, their whole mood follows it.
Mercury in Pisces thinks in images and impressions more than straight lines, and John is likely to communicate through metaphor, tone and instinct rather than clean argument. Explaining a conclusion they nonetheless feel certain about can be the struggle. It is the kind of mind that knows something is off before it can say why.
With Mercury in the ninth house, John thinks in big frameworks and enjoys following an idea all the way to where it leads, even if that means a change of mind along the way. Foreign ideas, languages and philosophies excite them more than familiar, well-worn ones.
Venus in Pisces loves without much guard, and John 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.
Venus in the eighth house wants intimacy that goes all the way down, not the kind that stays comfortably light, and John is inclined to build trust slowly and value it highly once it exists. The placement suggests that whatever John shares with someone means more when the bond behind it is solid.
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. John 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.
With Mars in the fifth house, John is apt to go after what excites them without much hesitation, and creative and romantic pursuits can carry intensity. The placement brings competition and passion alive in this part of life, and is rarely satisfied by a half-hearted effort.
Jupiter in Gemini
16° Gemini 31' · eleventh house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Gemini grows through learning and exposure to as many ideas as can be gathered, and its optimism is contagious in conversation. John may overreach by knowing a little about everything and claiming more certainty than the depth supports. This is someone who can be the best-read person in the room on subjects they have never studied closely.
With Jupiter in the eleventh house, John brings enthusiasm to the causes and community projects that catch their interest, and keeps a wide and varied circle of friends. In a group working towards a shared goal, that enthusiasm spreads.
Saturn in Scorpio builds its discipline around trust and control, and for John letting go of either is unlikely to come easily. The doubt is bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given no reason for it. Comfort with vulnerability can come in the end, and the work it takes is seldom seen by others.
Saturn sits in the fourth house of John's chart, a placement linked with the weight of home and family responsibility on a person's shoulders, often from early on. With this placement, a stable home is apt to be built by sustained effort, and the security created there tends to mean more because of the work it takes.
Uranus in Cancer
19° Cancer 34' ℞ · twelfth house
freedom, generational
Uranus in Cancer belongs to an age group rather than to John alone. Its mark is a generation that redefines home and family, departing from the structures the previous generation grew up inside. At the personal level it is read as a pull to build family life differently.
Uranus in the twelfth house brings sudden insight in quiet or solitude, often surprising even John with where it comes from. Their inner world is apt to hold ideas that run ahead of language, waiting for the right moment to surface.
Neptune in Libra
25° Libra 55' ℞ · fourth house
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, John among them. It idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by images of love on screen that outpace real relationships. The personal echo is a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.
John is likely to be sensitive to the underlying mood of a household in ways that other people in the same room often miss. With Neptune in the fourth house, home can take on an idealised or slightly hazy quality, and the sense of family is apt to be more emotional than literal.
Pluto in Leo
23° Leo 39' ℞ · second house
power, generational
Pluto in Leo is held by a whole generation, one that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. At a personal scale, for John, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Pluto in the second house means John holds their values with intensity; the placement is associated with rebuilding a sense of what matters from the ground up. Security comes from the inside for them and not from anything they own, and what they value they value completely.
Aspects in John Travolta’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Venus square Mars
0.5° applying
Desire and the need for harmony can clash where Venus squares Mars, and John Travolta may be caught between wanting something and wanting to keep the peace. What the aspect asks for is a want voiced directly, before it leaks out sideways.
Mercury square Jupiter
0.6° applying
Thinking can run ahead of the evidence when Mercury is square Jupiter, leading to overconfident claims or promises made faster than John can check them. Matching enthusiasm to what has been verified makes their confidence more durable, not less.
Moon sextile Saturn
1.8° separating
John's feelings have a sense of structure to lean on, which gives them a workable, grounded way of managing difficult emotions. Call it quiet resilience rather than avoidance, the kind that holds up over a long stretch of time.
Mercury trine Uranus
3.6° applying
Insight is likely to come to John fast and without much effort, the product of thinking and originality that flow together easily. With Mercury trine Uranus, new ideas tend to arrive when they are needed, often faster than they can be written down.
Sun trine Neptune
3.7° separating
John's identity and imagination flow together easily, giving them an intuitive, artistic quality that feels natural rather than performed. With the Sun trine Neptune, compassion comes without much effort, and other people often sense it before a word has been said.
Moon opposition Mercury
4.8° applying
When the gut says one thing and the analysis another, John is left deciding which to trust. With the Moon opposite Mercury, letting the two inform each other rather than compete tends to produce the best decisions, above all in moments that call for both a fast read and a careful one.
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.
- Neptune sextile Pluto2.3°
- Sun conjunction Venus4.8°
- Venus trine Saturn4.9°
- Sun square Mars5.3°
- Moon square Jupiter5.4°
- Sun opposition Pluto6.0°
- Moon square Mars6.2°
- Uranus square Neptune6.3°
- Mercury trine Saturn6.6°
- Moon opposition Venus6.8°
John Travolta in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Aquarius Sun and Virgo Moon, like John Travolta
Also born on 18 February
John Travolta in the StarMap archive
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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 (Quoted BC/BR). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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