John Boyd Orr
John Boyd Orr (born September 23, 1880, Kilmaurs, United Kingdom; died 1971), was a Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Orr served as Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization and member of the House of Lords. Orr's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Knight Bachelor and baron.
John Boyd Orr’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with John
John Boyd Orr’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 22, 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
John ranked 1st among boys and 229th among girls in 1880, the year of this birth, with 9,655 American boys and 46 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
22 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Blush · Silver
The record
What sets John apart
Bruce Springsteen (1949) and Ray Charles (1930) 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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of John is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. John creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: John is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. John is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. John fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 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 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 Boyd Orr
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kilmaurs 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 Kilmaurs that night
Computed for 55.64°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kilmaurs was Alderamin, in Cepheus, 83.0° up.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Kilmaurs sits at 55.6°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −34.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Kilmaurs on any night.
Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon up and 74% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
58 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Libra · No Water planets · 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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
John Boyd Orr's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 23, 1880, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonBorn for the big room.
John Boyd Orr was born on September 23, 1880, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Structure for the many.
John Boyd Orr's birth date, September 23, 1880, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Boyd Orr's date-only chart is Sun trine Pluto, with an orb of about 3°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Boyd Orr combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.1° to 6.2° orb
John’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrinePluto2.1° to 3.1° orb
John’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter3.1° to 4.5° orb
John’s affections pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.6° to 5.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter4.8° to 5.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars4.9° to 6.0° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn6.6° to 7.9° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 2.2° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 6.3° to 18.4° depending on birth time
possibleMercurytrinePlutoorb from 6.6° to 8.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 17°15′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 14°39′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 11°35′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 19°00′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 0°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mars 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 0.5°
- Eros square Uranus 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.2°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 1.7°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.9°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Venus, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
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Born in Dragon years
- Nancy PelosiAmerican politician (born 1940)
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- Grigori RasputinRussian mystic
Also born on September 23
- Bruce Springsteen1949
- Ray Charles1930
- Julio Iglesias1943
- Michel Temer1940
- Napheesa Collier1996
- Jason Alexander1959
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Jean BourgainBelgian mathematician and Fields Medalist
- Richard BorcherdsBritish-American mathematician (born 1959)
- Michel MayorSwiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
Other Libra Dragon charts
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- Daxton HillAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Kenneth Walker IIIAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Penei SewellAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Evergreen Pioneers
- Mike NicholsAmerican director and comedian
- Shmuel Yosef AgnonUkrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature
- Arthur HendersonBritish politician
- Léon BourgeoisFrench statesman
Famous people with Life Path 22
- Deion SandersAmerican football and baseball player and football coach
- Amy SedarisAmerican comedian and actor
- Jodie Turner-SmithBritish actress
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John’s cards
Computed from September 23, 1880. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
DeathAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
22 · Master Builder♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q315143 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Boyd Orr.
Quick answers about John Boyd Orr’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Boyd Orr?
- John Boyd Orr was a Libra: born September 23, 1880, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was John Boyd Orr's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 23, 1880 birth.
- What was John Boyd Orr's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Boyd Orr's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Boyd Orr's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Boyd Orr's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
