John Bardeen
John Bardeen (born May 23, 1908, Madison, United States, 05:00; died 1991), was an American physicist and engineer. Bardeen served as professor. Bardeen's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize in Physics and National Medal of Science.
John Bardeen’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
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John Bardeen’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name John in the U.S.?
#23
US rank in 2025
~5,204,377
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta
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What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. John needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, John is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What John needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. John gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. John creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: John is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. John is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of John leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means John does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from John's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where John sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFascinating, then gone.
John Bardeen's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
John Bardeen was born on May 23, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
John Bardeen's birth date, May 23, 1908, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in John’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in John Bardeen's timed chart: Sun in the 1st house, Moon in the 10th house, Mercury in the 1st house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in John Bardeen's timed chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- John Bardeen combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
John’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
JupitertrineSaturnseparating · 0.4° orb
John’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
VenusconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 0.8° orb
John’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
VenusoppositionUranusapplying · 2.6° orb
John’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
UranusoppositionNeptuneapplying · 3.4° orb
John’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
MercuryconjunctionPlutoapplying · 4.7° orb
John’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoontrineNeptuneapplying · 5.3° orb
John’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SaturnsquareNeptuneapplying · 5.7° orb
John’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunsquareMoonseparating · 5.9° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their feelings.
MoontrineVenusapplying · 6.1° orb
John’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
VenussquareSaturnseparating · 6.5° orb
John’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarssquareSaturnapplying · 6.8° orb
John’s drive grinds against their discipline.
MarsconjunctionPlutoseparating · 6.8° orb
John’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s.
⚷ ChironAquarius 23°22′ · House 9
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has John making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresLibra 4°24′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. John is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosLeo 22°03′ · House 3
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has John loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 27°20′ · House 12
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. John is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°47′ · House 3
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. John is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.4°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.5°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 2.9°
- Eros sextile Mercury 3.0°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
John’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect
2. ☽ Moon8 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: John is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in John’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated.
- Moon quincunx Jupiter 0.0°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
- Moon semi-sextile Saturn 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
John’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini | Mercury in Gemini, house 1 | Sun, Mercury, Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 10 | Venus, Mars, Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Leo | Sun in Gemini, house 1 | Jupiter | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Virgo | Mercury in Gemini, house 1 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Libra | Venus in Cancer, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Scorpio | Pluto in Gemini, house 1 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 3 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Capricorn | Saturn in Aries, house 11 | Uranus | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Aquarius | Uranus in Capricorn, house 8 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Pisces | Neptune in Cancer, house 2 | Moon | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Aries | Mars in Cancer, house 2 | Saturn | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Taurus | Venus in Cancer, house 2 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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John’s cards
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q949, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Bardeen at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about John Bardeen’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Bardeen?
- John Bardeen was a Gemini: born May 23, 1908, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey.
- What was John Bardeen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 23, 1908 birth.
- What time was John Bardeen born?
- 05:00 local time in Madison, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was John Bardeen's rising sign?
- Gemini rising, calculated from the documented 05:00 birth time in Madison, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was John Bardeen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the May 23, 1908 birth date.
- What was John Bardeen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 23, 1908 birth time.
- Where was John Bardeen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 15°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Bardeen's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Pluto; angular in the first house; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
