Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967, South Dakota, United States), aged 59, is an American novelist and short story writer. Johnson's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction and Berlin Prize.
Adam Johnson’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Adam
Adam Johnson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Adam in the U.S.?
#101
US rank in 2025
~582,453
Americans share it since 1880
1984
its peak year
In 1967, 2,524 American boys and 7 girls were registered Adam — 118th among boys and 5,457th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Adam’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
5
Soul Urge · freedom
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on A (1) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Adam’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The record
What sets Adam apart
Pablo Neruda (1904) and Vinícius Júnior (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Adam, according to the stars
Core essence
Adam feels the room before entering it. The core of Adam is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Adam, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Adam wants to be loved
Adam wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Adam and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Adam creates
How Adam makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Adam creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Adam is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Adam is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Adam fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Adam's birth date. Working below.
Where Adam sits
Six lines
Adam’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Adam Johnson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above South Dakota on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over South Dakota that night
Computed for 44.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at South Dakota was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 79.4° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
South Dakota sits at 44.5°N, high enough that Capella never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −45.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from South Dakota on any night.
The Moon, 32% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat -3° below the horizon.
How unusual Adam's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 unaspected planets
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Adam Johnson's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 12, 1967, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Goat
Fire GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Adam Johnson was born on July 12, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Adam Johnson's birth date, July 12, 1967, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Adam’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Adam Johnson's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Adam Johnson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Adam’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 0° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableUranussextileNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb
Adam’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextilePluto0.7° to 1.7° orb
Adam’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileUranus1.0° to 1.9° orb
Adam’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineNeptune1.6° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn2.1° to 2.6° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.6° to 2.8° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto2.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.2° to 5.7° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Adam’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 29°47′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 10°44′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 6°09′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 6°15′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.1°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.4°
Adam’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
Configurations in Adam’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
More people like Adam
Other writers
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- Mary Robinette Kowal1969
- J. R. Moehringer1964
- Ree Drummond1969
- Ann Leckie1966
- Junot Díaz1968
Born in United States
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- Clifford J. LevyAmerican journalist
- Layne StaleyAmerican rock musician
- Nicole KidmanAustralian-American actress, producer, and model
- Joe RoganAmerican broadcaster, comedian, and actor
More charts like Adam’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Camillo GolgiItalian physician, pathologist, scientist, and Nobel laureate
- Léon JouhauxFrench trade unionist
- Igor TammSoviet physicist
Born in Goat years
- Lois WilleAmerican journalist and author
- Price DayAmerican war correspondent
- Michael ParksPulitzer Prize winning journalist and educator
Also born on July 12
- Pablo Neruda1904
- Vinícius Júnior2000
- Tupou VI of Tonga1959
- Phoebe Tonkin1989
- Hilary Knight1989
- Bill Cosby1937
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Black SherifGhanaian singer and rapper
- Pommelien ThijsBelgian actress and singer
- Miyū YamashitaJapanese professional golfer
Other Cancer Goat charts
- Shōgo TaniguchiJapanese association football player
- Junnosuke SuzukiJapanese association football player
- Oscar BobbNorwegian footballer (born 2003)
- Víctor MuñozSpanish association football player (born 2003)
Other Radiant Diplomats
- Amari WilliamsBritish basketball player (born 2002)
- Jamal MurrayCanadian basketball player (born 1997)
- Baba MillerSpanish basketball player (born 2004)
- Chris MañonAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Connor HeywardAmerican football player (born 1999)
- JC LathamAmerican football player (born 2003)
- Tyjae SpearsAmerican football player (born 2001)
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Adam’s cards
Computed from July 12, 1967. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
6 · Guardian☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Adam’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4679309 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Roms69, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Adam Johnson at Wikipedia, profiles.stanford.edu and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Adam Johnson.
Quick answers about Adam Johnson’s chart
- How old is Adam Johnson?
- Adam Johnson is 59 years old, born July 12, 1967 in South Dakota, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Adam Johnson?
- Adam Johnson is a Cancer: born July 12, 1967, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Adam Johnson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 12, 1967 birth.
- What is Adam Johnson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Adam Johnson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Adam Johnson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Adam Johnson's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
