John Berger
John Berger (born November 5, 1926, Hackney, London, United Kingdom; died 2017), was a British painter, writer and art critic. Berger's honours include Booker Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Groeneveld Award.
John Berger’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with John
John Berger’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
In 1926, 56,108 American boys and 385 girls were registered John — 2nd among boys and 339th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
7
Soul Urge · understanding
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Crimson · Scarlet
The record
What sets John apart
Vivien Leigh (1913) and Art Garfunkel (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John does not do surface. The core of John is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from John is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, John feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What John needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with John even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. John is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means John is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from John's birth date. Working below.
Where John sits
Six lines
John’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Dedicate a star to John Berger
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London Borough of Hackney 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 London Borough of Hackney that night
Computed for 51.54°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at London Borough of Hackney at 9 p.m. that evening: Caph of Cassiopeia, within 7.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London Borough of Hackney at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 41° below the horizon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde
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.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
John Berger's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 5, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
John Berger was born on November 5, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
John Berger's birth date, November 5, 1926, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Berger's date-only chart is Saturn square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Berger combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.0° to 7.0° orb
John’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableMoonoppositionMars0.0° to 6.7° orb
John’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
John’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunoppositionMars0.8° to 2.2° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus0.8° to 0.9° orb
stableVenusoppositionMars1.7° to 3.3° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.4° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.8° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 29°14′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 1°21′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°32′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 24°09′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 16°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Eros sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.4°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.6°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, SaturnThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.1°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 2.3°
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John’s cards
Computed from November 5, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q382604 (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 Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Berger at Wikipedia, johnbergerhome.com and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Berger.
Quick answers about John Berger’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Berger?
- John Berger was a Scorpio: born November 5, 1926, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was John Berger's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 5, 1926 birth.
- What was John Berger's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Berger's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Berger's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Berger's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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