John Wayne’s birth chart
Born 26 May 1907, in Winterset, Iowa. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Gemini Sun · Scorpio Moon
John Wayne’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
John Wayne was born on Sunday, 26 May 1907, in Winterset, Iowa. The Sun was in Gemini, so Gemini was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Scorpio. John died on 11 June 1979, aged 72. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Water carries the most weight: four of the ten planets, against earth three, air three and fire none. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is four, two and four. Three planets stand together in Gemini: Sun, Mercury and Pluto. The tightest aspect is Jupiter opposition Uranus, about 0.4° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. One planet was retrograde: Uranus. Over the course of the day the Moon went from waxing gibbous to full.
StarMap's dataset holds 14 other people born on 26 May, among them Miles Davis, Helena Bonham Carter and Lenny Kravitz. Wikidata links John with one person in the dataset: Marlene Dietrich (listed as partners in Wikidata).
See the sky the day John was born: the stars over Winterset, Iowa, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
John Wayne’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Gemini
about 4° Gemini at midday
A Gemini Sun connects. Ideas, people and conversations are its element, and John Wayne probably learns by talking things through. This placement is happiest with two projects and a question nobody has answered yet.
Moon sign
Scorpio
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For John that suggests trust that is slow, private and absolute; betrayal, once it happens, is not forgotten. This Moon is restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Winterset, Iowa, at each hour of the day.
John Wayne’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for John yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 26 May 1907, computed for Winterset, Iowa.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:55 | Aquarius rising |
| 00:55 to 02:05 | Pisces rising |
| 02:05 to 03:15 | Aries rising |
| 03:15 to 04:40 | Taurus rising |
| 04:40 to 06:35 | Gemini rising |
| 06:35 to 09:00 | Cancer rising |
| 09:00 to 11:30 | Leo rising |
| 11:30 to 14:05 | Virgo rising |
| 14:05 to 16:35 | Libra rising |
| 16:35 to 19:10 | Scorpio rising |
| 19:10 to 21:30 | Sagittarius rising |
| 21:30 to 23:25 | Capricorn rising |
| 23:25 to 24:00 | Aquarius rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 26 May 1907, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 4° Gemini 19' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Scorpio |
| Mercury | 7° Gemini 15' |
| Venus | 4° Taurus 56' |
| Mars | 18° Capricorn 20' |
| Jupiter | 11° Cancer 40' |
| Saturn | 25° Pisces 52' |
| Uranus | 12° Capricorn 06'℞ |
| Neptune | 10° Cancer 57' |
| Pluto | 22° Gemini 47' |
| North Node | 24° Cancer 30' |
| South Node | 24° Capricorn 30' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
John Wayne’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about John Wayne’s private life.
Sun in Gemini
4° Gemini 19' at midday
purpose and vitality
For John Wayne, the Sun in Gemini means vitality that comes from variety, and purpose that feels most real when they are learning or explaining something new. What suffers is focus, with energy scattered across too many half-finished things at once. Several projects and three hobbies on the go at the same time would be in character.
Moon in Scorpio
Scorpio, all day
needs and habits
For John, the Moon in Scorpio means emotional needs that run deep and private, and a preference for managing a hard feeling alone over explaining it while it is still raw. Trust builds slowly and is rarely given back once broken. Even among the people closest to them, this Moon is likely to need real privacy.
Mercury in Gemini
7° Gemini 15' at midday
mind and voice
John's Mercury in Gemini describes a mind that moves fast across many subjects at once and communicates easily in almost any setting. The tension is skimming the surface of a topic and moving on before going deep enough to be sure of it. The result is knowing a little about a great many things.
Venus in Taurus
4° Taurus 56' at midday
love and values
Venus in Taurus loves steadily and shows it through consistency, touch and shared comfort rather than grand gestures, and in John's chart it is likely to value loyalty and things built to last. Because change feels like loss, this Venus can hold on to a relationship past its natural end. Months in, people with this placement tend to remember exactly how someone takes their coffee.
Mars in Capricorn
18° Capricorn 20' at midday
drive and anger
Mars in Capricorn acts with discipline and patience, playing a longer game than most, and in John's case its anger tends to be controlled, arriving as coldness rather than heat. The tendency is to go quiet and distant instead of saying what is wrong. A frustration is something to outwork rather than voice.
Jupiter in Cancer
11° Cancer 40' at midday
growth and excess
For John, Jupiter in Cancer means growing by nurturing others and building a home that people want to return to. The excess can be protecting loved ones past the point they need it. Generosity here takes the form of home-cooked meals, open doors and an instinct to take in anyone who needs somewhere to land.
Saturn in Pisces
25° Pisces 52' at midday
discipline and doubt
Saturn in Pisces builds discipline around boundaries, and it usually starts from a habit of carrying feelings that belong to other people. For John, the doubt is likely to take the form of guilt for protecting their own time and energy. What this Saturn works towards is a quiet, mature compassion, once it is clear that a boundary and a closed heart are not the same thing.
Uranus in Capricorn
12° Capricorn 06' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Many people within a few years of John's age share Uranus in Capricorn, the mark of a generation that dismantles and rebuilds old institutions and structures of authority. Personally, that can mean scepticism towards any system that asks for trust without having shown why it deserves it.
Neptune in Cancer
10° Cancer 57' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by John and many people born in the same decade or so. The generation idealises home and family, often carrying a wider nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never quite have existed. Personally it can be a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
Pluto in Gemini
22° Gemini 47' at midday
power, generational
John shares Pluto in Gemini with many people born in the same long stretch of years. That generation transforms communication and collective thought, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. The personal portion is an intense relationship with what counts as truth.
Aspects in John Wayne’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Jupiter opposition Uranus
about 0.4° at midday
One side of this opposition wants John Wayne to expand along a familiar path; the other wants them to leave it entirely for something untested. Neither impulse needs to win outright, and trying the new direction on a smaller scale first tends to serve them well.
Jupiter conjunction Neptune
about 0.7° at midday
For John, growth is likely to be idealistic and compassionate, a matter of causes, beliefs or visions bigger than daily concerns. Jupiter conjunct Neptune supplies the inspiration and leaves them the job of checking a beautiful idea against what can be achieved.
Sun conjunction Mercury
about 2.9° at midday
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, John's sense of self and way of thinking are fused, so an opinion can feel like a statement of who they are. They are likely to speak their mind readily, and telling a passing thought apart from their identity is a practice worth keeping up.
Saturn square Pluto
about 3.1° at midday
Saturn square Pluto sets the need for control against the instinct for transformation, and John 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 conjunction Uranus
about 6.2° at midday
Mars conjunct Uranus makes for a sudden, independent drive, and John probably acts fastest at the exact moment someone says it cannot be done. Courage and originality come with the aspect, and so does the need to check an impulsive decision against longer-term goals before committing to it.
Mars opposition Jupiter
about 6.7° at midday
Mars opposite Jupiter pits John's own direct action against other people's grander plans or expectations, which can end in overcommitting to someone else's vision. John's own sense of scale is usually a better guide than anyone else's.
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 opposition Neptuneabout 1.2°
- Mars opposition Neptuneabout 7.4°
John Wayne in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Gemini Sun and Scorpio Moon, like John Wayne
Also born on 26 May
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; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their 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. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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