John Bersia
John Bersia (born November 23, 1956, Orlando, United States; died 2019), was an American journalist. Bersia's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
John Bersia’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Monkey, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Monkey, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with John
John Bersia’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood 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
Of the names registered in 1956, John came 5th among boys and 638th among girls, carried by 80,804 American boys and 224 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
1 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Gold · Rose-gold · Scarlet
The record
What sets John apart
Vincent Cassel (1966) and Gwynne Shotwell (1963) 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 is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of John is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, John needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What John needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. John gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
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 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; John slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Bersia
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Orlando 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 Orlando that night
Computed for 28.53°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Mirach stood nearest the zenith over Orlando at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.8° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 96 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 28.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −61.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Acrux were never visible from Orlando on any night.
The Moon was at last quarter, 61% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →John Bersia at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
John Bersia's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 23, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Fire Monkey
Fire MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
John Bersia was born on November 23, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Goes first. Works it out.
John Bersia's birth date, November 23, 1956, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Bersia's date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Bersia combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Leo 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
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.4° orb
John’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquarePluto0.5° to 1.5° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb
John’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn1.9° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableVenussextilePluto2.1° to 3.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune2.9° to 4.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.4° to 4.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter3.4° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.4° to 4.5° orb
stableSuntrineUranus5.0° to 6.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 7°19′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 6°50′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 12°02′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 2°55′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 9°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.1°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.4°
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.5°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.6°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.0°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 2.5°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 1.2°
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Also born on November 23
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
John’s cards
Computed from November 23, 1956. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6221719 (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 Bersia at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Bersia.
Quick answers about John Bersia’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Bersia?
- John Bersia was a Sagittarius: born November 23, 1956, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was John Bersia's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 23, 1956 birth.
- What was John Bersia's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Bersia's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Bersia's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Bersia's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
