John C. Mather
John C. Mather (born August 7, 1946, Roanoke, United States), aged 80, is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. Mather's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics and Benjamin Franklin Medal.
John C. Mather’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with John
John C. Mather’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
The SSA recorded 79,267 American boys and 208 girls named John in 1946: 3rd among boys and 548th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
3
Soul Urge · being heard
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5).
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 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
The record
What sets John apart
Charlize Theron (1975) and Abbie Cornish (1982) 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 warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of John is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, John is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What John needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with John and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. John creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: John is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 C. Mather
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Roanoke 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 Roanoke that night
Computed for 37.27°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Roanoke at 9 p.m. that evening: Kornephoros of Hercules, within 16.0° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
Roanoke sits at 37.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −52.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 78% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 7° below the horizon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · No Water 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 →The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
John C. Mather's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 7, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
John C. Mather was born on August 7, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
John C. Mather's birth date, August 7, 1946, 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 C. Mather's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Water.
- John C. Mather combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 20° Sagittarius 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
stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 5.9° orb
John’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 0.5° orb
John’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableVenusconjunctionMars0.4° to 0.9° orb
John’s affections and drive act as one.
stableJupitertrineUranus0.7° to 0.8° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn1.6° to 2.1° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn2.0° to 3.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto2.6° to 3.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto4.9° to 5.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto5.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn5.4° to 6.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune7.4° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 17°40′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 4°11′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 17°35′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 1°04′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 10°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Saturn 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.1°
- Ceres opposition Mercury 2.1°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.3°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Saturn, PlutoThree 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.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.6°
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on August 7
- Charlize Theron1975
- Abbie Cornish1982
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- Yves MissiCameroonian basketball player (born 2004)
- Jeremy SochanAmerican-Polish basketball player
Other Leo Dog charts
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Other Tidal Scholars
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John’s cards
Computed from August 7, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104651 (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 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope from Greenbelt, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John C. Mather 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 C. Mather.
Quick answers about John C. Mather’s chart
- How old is John C. Mather?
- John C. Mather is 80 years old, born August 7, 1946 in Roanoke, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John C. Mather?
- John C. Mather is a Leo: born August 7, 1946, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is John C. Mather's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 7, 1946 birth.
- What is John C. Mather's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is John C. Mather's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John C. Mather's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John C. Mather's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
