John Glenn’s birth chart
AstronautBorn July 18, 1921, Cambridge, Ohio, United StatesDied December 8, 2016
Remembers birthdays, old jokes and who needed help.
- SunCancerThe Protector
- MoonCapricornThe Steady Hand
- VenusGeminiThe Charmer
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Cancer, the Protector
Remembers birthdays, old jokes and who needed help. Loyalty runs deep, and so does the need to belong. Purpose and patience worked as a team: he built slowly and got better with every year.
The Sun sextile Saturn (wide at 4.7°)
What he needed
Moon in Capricorn, the Steady Hand
Keeps feelings under control and feels safest when life is organised and secure. His head and his feelings argued: he knew what he thought before he knew what he felt, or the other way round.
The Moon opposition Mercury (almost exact at 0.5°)
How he loved
Venus in Gemini, the Charmer
Playful, curious and charming in love. Wants variety, banter and a mind to match. Love came in sudden starts and stops: he fell for people quickly and needed room just as quickly.
Venus square Uranus (close at 1.4°)
How he thought
Mercury in Cancer, the Remembering Mind
Thinks through feeling and memory. Listens well and remembers exactly how something was said. A quick, original mind: ideas arrived in flashes, and he saw answers others missed.
Mercury trine Uranus (close at 2.0°)
What drove him
Mars in Cancer, the Defender
Protective to the core. Puts every ounce of strength behind family and the people dearest to him. His drive and his discipline worked together easily: he could push hard and keep going.
Mars sextile Saturn (close at 1.0°)
The shape of his chart
In his chart, his identity, his mind, his drive and his intensity (the Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto) gather in Cancer, and that part of life drew his attention first. Most of his planets are in water signs: feeling and intuition.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
John Glenn was born the day before a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 98% lit, in Capricorn. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Monday, twenty-six days after the June solstice.
Mercury retrograde
Mercury was retrograde all the day John Glenn was born, as it was on 66 days of 1921. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For John Glenn, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 2008 and 2009, at 87: his third Saturn return, after the second in 1979 and 1980. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Cancer
You and John Glenn
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The chart
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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
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What is John Glenn’s zodiac sign?
Cancer. John Glenn was born on July 18, 1921, with the Sun in Cancer, the Protector. Remembers birthdays, old jokes and who needed help. Loyalty runs deep, and so does the need to belong.
What is John Glenn’s Moon sign?
Capricorn, the Steady Hand. Keeps feelings under control and feels safest when life is organised and secure.
What is John Glenn’s rising sign?
The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on July 18, 1921. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is John Glenn’s Venus sign?
Gemini, the Charmer. Playful, curious and charming in love. Wants variety, banter and a mind to match.
How does your chart compare with John Glenn’s?
Set your chart beside John Glenn’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.
Sources and credits
Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and John Glenn’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: U.S. Senate Historical Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The file and its full credit.
The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.
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