John Berryman
John Berryman (born October 25, 1914, McAlester, United States; died 1972), was an American poet and scholar. Berryman is best remembered for The Dream Songs. Berryman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and National Book Award.
John Berryman’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with John
John Berryman’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
Of the names registered in 1914, John came 1st among boys and 408th among girls, carried by 37,947 American boys and 169 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
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
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Crimson · Forest
The record
What sets John apart
Pablo Picasso (1881) and Katy Perry (1984) 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.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with John and watch them fall for you again.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. John builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. John is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means John runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 John Berryman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above McAlester 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 McAlester that night
Computed for 34.93°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Scheat stood nearest the zenith over McAlester at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.5° above the horizon in Pegasus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from McAlester at all: they sit past the −55.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 52% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Sun · No Earth 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 →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
John Berryman's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 25, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
John Berryman was born on October 25, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
John Berryman's birth date, October 25, 1914, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Berryman's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Berryman combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.0° to 8.0° orb
John’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrinePluto0.1° to 1.2° orb
John’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto0.1° orb
John’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrineSaturn0.2° to 1.3° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune0.5° to 1.5° orb
stableVenussextileUranus1.6° to 2.0° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.2° to 3.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.4° to 4.9° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.9° to 5.6° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus5.2° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.7° to 6.7° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 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 ℞Pisces 14°47′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 18°07′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 21°47′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 29°26′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 7°10′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mars 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.5°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 1.0°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.0°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
T-square onto Sun · Uranus, Neptune, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.4°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.5°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.9°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.8°
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Other Evergreen Architects
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Famous people with Life Path 5
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John’s cards
Computed from October 25, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q522192 (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.
The same John Berryman at Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Berryman.
Quick answers about John Berryman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Berryman?
- John Berryman was a Scorpio: born October 25, 1914, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was John Berryman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 25, 1914 birth.
- What was John Berryman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Berryman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Berryman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Berryman's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
