John Cazale
John Cazale (born August 12, 1935, Revere, United States; died 1978), was an American actor. Cazale is best remembered for The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter.
John Cazale’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Pig, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Pig, with 
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John Cazale’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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
US Social Security Administration public records
John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
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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.
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 cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. John creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: John is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. John is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where John sits
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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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
John Cazale's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 12, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
John Cazale was born on August 12, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
John Cazale's birth date, August 12, 1935, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Cazale's date-only chart is Mars trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Air.
- John Cazale combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for John Cazale, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
John’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.5° to 1.6° orb
John’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionUranus2.1° to 2.7° orb
John’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.3° to 3.3° orb
John’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.7° orb
John’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableVenussextilePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb
John’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
John’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.6° to 6.8° orb
John’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.8° to 7.3° orb
John’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironGemini 15°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has John turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresVirgo 9°20′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has John caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 1°17′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. John is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 11°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. John is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 13°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has John exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 0.0°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 1.1°
- Ceres sextile Mars 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Chiron square Neptune 1.9°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.1°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
John’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: John is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in John’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Cazale, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
Every card is computed from August 12, 1935, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for John Cazale, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296177, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Changing Windows, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Cazale at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about John Cazale’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Cazale?
- John Cazale was a Leo: born August 12, 1935, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Pig.
- What was John Cazale's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 12, 1935 birth.
- What time was John Cazale born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was John Cazale's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the August 12, 1935 birth date.
- What was John Cazale's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 12, 1935 birth date.
- Where was John Cazale's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Cazale's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
