Director & composer
John Carpenter
Halloween and The Thing, and he wrote the scores himself.
John Howard Carpenter is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a master of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award and lauded him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions". On April 3, 2025, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- Born
- 1948-01-16, Carthage, USAA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Pisces
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1948-01-16, Carthage, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 25°29′ | Direct |
| Moon | Pisces | 24°05′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 3°51′ | Direct |
| Venus | Aquarius | 28°17′ | Direct |
| Mars | Virgo | 7°10′ | Retrograde |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 18°24′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Leo | 21°03′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Gemini | 22°54′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Libra | 12°59′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 14°11′ | Retrograde |
John Carpenter is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment John Carpenter was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.