Derrick Jones Jr. Birth Chart

Aquarius is also the sign of the collective, of teams and movements and the individual serving the greater whole. Jones has bounced between franchises — Phoenix, Miami, Portland, Chicago, Dallas, and now the Los Angeles Clippers — but has consistently found a role, consistently contributed to winning environments.

The Moon in Gemini reflects an inner life defined by speed, curiosity, and adaptability. Gemini is the sign of the twins — of duality, of holding two things at once, of the mind that moves faster than the body can follow. A Gemini Moon person finds emotional security through variety, through conversation, through keeping multiple doors open simultaneously.

In a career context, a Gemini Moon supports extraordinary adaptability. Moving between franchises, adjusting to new systems, learning new teammates, reading different defensive schemes — these are Gemini Moon strengths. For a player who has suited up for six different NBA organizations, this is not a liability. It is the equipment that makes the journey possible.

Mercury governs how we think, communicate, and process information. In Aquarius, Mercury is the mind of the inventor, the analyst who approaches problems from an angle nobody else considered. Jones's Mercury at 9°37' Aquarius sits in close conjunction with both Jupiter and Uranus — a triple gathering of intellectual electricity in the same sign.

This Mercury does not think in straight lines. It skips steps, arrives at conclusions through intuition, and is most alive when the situation is genuinely novel.

Mercury is also trine Jones's Gemini Moon, an aspect that deepens the connection between mind and instinct, thought and feeling. When these two parts of a chart speak the same language, the result is someone who can think and feel simultaneously without one overriding the other.

Venus in Aquarius describes the approach to beauty, pleasure, connection, and relationships through the Aquarian filter: equality, intellectual compatibility, and freedom within commitment.

Venus is in conjunction with Mercury here, linking the aesthetic and relational world directly to the intellectual one. The things Jones finds beautiful are likely things that also fascinate him — objects, people, and experiences that contain something genuinely surprising.

Mars in Libra is already a nuanced placement: the planet of drive and aggression in the sign of balance and fairness. Mars does not operate at its most direct in Libra — instead of forward charge, it calibrates, considers, and seeks the most elegant path through conflict.

With Mars in retrograde at birth, this tendency toward internalized drive is amplified. Mars retrograde in Libra suggests that Jones's most potent competitive force is not visible in the heat of the moment but has been built, quietly, over years of disciplined refinement.

His value — the reason teams invest in him — lies in precision athleticism: elite shot-blocking, switchable defense, and the specific kind of explosive play that comes from a body trained to an extraordinary standard.

This is the most remarkable aspect in Jones's entire chart. Jupiter and Uranus were nearly exactly conjunct on February 15th — separated by just 0.07 degrees. Jupiter expands whatever it touches. Uranus electrifies, disrupts, and breaks through. Together, especially in Aquarius, this conjunction describes potential for sudden, dramatic, unexpected breakthrough.

This conjunction is also central to a Grand Aquarian Stellium — four planets (Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus) clustered in Aquarius, with the Sun completing a five-planet concentration in the sign.

Saturn in Aries places the planet of structure and discipline in the sign of the pioneer. In tight opposition to Mars (orb: 0.24°), Saturn forms one of the most precise and defining aspects in the chart.

Neptune in Capricorn is a generational placement. Neptune forms a tight trine to Jones's North Node (orb: 0.73°), connecting his generation's idealism to his personal sense of direction and purpose.

In Jones's chart, Pluto participates in several tight aspects — most significantly a sextile to Mars (orb: 0.15°) and a sextile to Jupiter-Uranus.

With an orb of 0.24°, the Mars-Saturn opposition is one of the tightest and most defining aspects in Jones's natal chart. Mars wants to act, move, pursue, compete. Saturn wants to slow down, plan, build, endure. When these two are in exact opposition, the chart belongs to someone whose greatest achievements come from holding both impulses simultaneously.

This is the tightest aspect in the entire chart. Mars-Pluto in sextile produces physical intensity with a regenerative quality: the capacity to go deep into exhaustion and emerge stronger.

With Mars forming trines to both Jupiter and Uranus in Aquarius (all within a degree), Jones carries what might be called a Grand Air Trine at the outer-planet level.

The three air signs form a perfect geometric triangle in Jones's chart. The Gemini Moon trines the Aquarius cluster and the Libra Mars.

Derrick Jones Jr. attended Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania, where he finished as the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,645 career points. He went on to play for the UNLV Runnin' Rebels before entering the NBA.

Undrafted in 2016, Jones worked his way into the league through the G League and training camps. After stints with the Phoenix Suns and then the Miami Heat, he won the 2020 NBA Slam Dunk Contest over Aaron Gordon in one of the closest finals in the event's history.

He has since played for the Portland Trail Blazers, Chicago Bulls, Dallas Mavericks, and signed with the Los Angeles Clippers on a three-year, $30 million deal.

Venus in Aquarius approaches connection with warmth but also with a need for freedom and intellectual chemistry. Mars retrograde in Libra adds a further layer: in relational conflict or tension, the impulse is not toward confrontation but toward finding the fair and balanced resolution.

The North Node in Virgo points toward a soul path built on mastery of craft, precision, service through excellence, and the humility to keep refining even when the surface-level results are already impressive.

Neptune's trine to this North Node (orb: 0.73°) suggests that idealism and inspiration have a role to play in that journey.

Derrick Jones Jr.'s birth chart is one of the most concentrated configurations in contemporary professional sport. The Aquarius stellium — Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Uranus all in the same sign — stamps the chart with an unmistakable signature of originality. The Jupiter-Uranus conjunction at 0.07° of separation is an extraordinary feature. Balancing this electric openness is the Mars-Saturn opposition, tight to within a fraction of a degree, which provides the structural discipline that turns raw ability into repeatable performance.

The nickname "Airplane Mode" turns out to be astrology in plain English.

Methodology: Planetary positions in this profile were calculated using Swiss Ephemeris via Kerykeion 5.x. Derrick Jones Jr.'s birth time is not available in any verified astrological registry (Rodden Rating X); noon on February 15, 1997, was used as a calculation fallback. Rising sign, house placements, and Midheaven are excluded. All planetary sign positions and degree-level aspects described here are reliable for the known birth date. This profile was generated with the assistance of AI. All astrological claims have been verified against the Swiss Ephemeris output.

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