John Boorman
John Boorman (born January 18, 1933, Shepperton, United Kingdom), aged 93, is a British film director, producer and screenwriter. Boorman's honours include Cannes Best Director Award, BAFTA Fellowship and Knight Bachelor.
John Boorman’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Water Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with John
John Boorman’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, 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 1933, John came 3rd among boys and 430th among girls, carried by 46,224 American boys and 226 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
1
Soul Urge · independence
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
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
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1932, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets John apart
John Boorman took the Cannes Best Director Award in 1970, at 37.
Salesian School, Chertsey shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1962, at 29.
On the family side, John Boorman was raised 3 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for John Boorman: British people of Dutch descent, Governors of the British Film Institute and BBC television producers.
Kevin Costner (1955) and Paul Keating (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Salesian School, Chertsey
- Awards
- BAFTA Fellowship (2004), Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director (1987) and Cannes Best Director Award (1970)
- Nominated for
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
- Working from
- 1962
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- German and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 43
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of John is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, John cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What John needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show John you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. John is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means John channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Boorman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shepperton 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 Shepperton that night
Computed for 51.40°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Capella stood nearest the zenith over Shepperton at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.4° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 51.4°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Shepperton at all: they sit past the −38.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 55% lit at last quarter.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · 3-planet stellium in Capricorn · 1 unaspected planet
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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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
John Boorman's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 18, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
John Boorman was born on January 18, 1933, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
John Boorman's birth date, January 18, 1933, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Boorman's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Boorman combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° 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
stableJupitersextilePluto0.9° orb
John’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableMarssextilePluto2.0° orb
John’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquarePluto2.6° orb
John’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus3.8° to 5.4° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune4.1° to 5.4° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter4.4° to 5.4° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.4° to 6.0° orb
stableMercurytrineMars4.5° to 6.0° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto5.2° to 6.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto6.4° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 23°40′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 18°23′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 26°57′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 17°40′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 29°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.6°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.6°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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 Uranus · Mercury, Pluto, UranusAn 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.
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.0°
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Born in Monkey years
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- Jason Segel1980
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Other Evergreen Strategists
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- Dmitri MendeleevRussian chemist
- Lyndon B. JohnsonPresident of the United States from 1963 to 1969
- Aung San Suu KyiFormer State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
John’s cards
Computed from January 18, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
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 Q55277 (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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Boorman at Wikipedia 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 Boorman.
Quick answers about John Boorman’s chart
- How old is John Boorman?
- John Boorman is 93 years old, born January 18, 1933 in Shepperton, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is John Boorman?
- John Boorman is a Capricorn: born January 18, 1933, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is John Boorman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 18, 1933 birth.
- What is John Boorman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Boorman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Boorman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Boorman's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
