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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Pig, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Pig, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with John
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
John ranked 3rd among boys and 449th among girls in 1935, the year of this birth, with 47,509 American boys and 208 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.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, 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
The shelf John Cazale is read from: The Godfather, The Deer Hunter and Dog Day Afternoon.
Oberlin College and Buxton School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1962, at 27.
Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer; the grave is at Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum.
Wikipedia's editors put John Cazale under Buxton School (Massachusetts) alumni, Male actors from Suffolk County, Massachusetts and Actors from Revere, Massachusetts.
Erwin Schrödinger (1887) and George Soros (1930) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- The Godfather, The Deer Hunter and Dog Day Afternoon
- Educated at
- Oberlin College, Buxton School and Boston University College of Fine Arts
- Nominated for
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture
- Working from
- 1962
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Buried at
- Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 48
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. 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 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.
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 Cazale
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Revere 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 Revere that night
Computed for 42.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Eltanin stood nearest the zenith over Revere at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.5° above the horizon in Draco.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Revere on any night.
The Moon was at full moon, 97% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Revere, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1978.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Cazale: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air 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 →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 15° to 0° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
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
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.7° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb
stableVenussextilePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.1° to 5.2° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn6.6° to 6.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.8° to 7.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 15°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 9°20′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 1°17′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 11°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 13°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
John’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in John’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.7°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.7°
More people like John
Other actors
- Frederic Forrest1936
- Sophia Loren1934
- Ronald Lacey1935
- Daniel Massey1933
- Keir Dullea1936
- Brigitte Bardot1934
Born in United States
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- Wilford BrimleyAmerican actor and singer
- Kenneth LangoneAmerican businessman
- M. Emmet WalshAmerican actor
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Born in Pig years
- Fritz Albert LipmannGerman-American biochemist
- Saul PerlmutterAmerican astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
- Alfonso García RoblesMexican diplomat and politician
Also born on August 12
- Erwin Schrödinger1887
- George Soros1930
- Cara Delevingne1992
- LaKeith Stanfield1991
- Dream1999
- Casey Affleck1975
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- George F. KennanAmerican advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
- Susan GlaspellAmerican writer
- Lawrence H. GipsonAmerican writer
Other Leo Pig charts
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- Lucille BallAmerican actress
- Sanjay DuttIndian actor and politician
- Ke Huy QuanAmerican actor and stunt choreographer
Other Gilded Guardians
- Shane WarneAustralian cricketer
- Bill HaderAmerican comedian and actor
- Daisy Edgar-JonesBritish actress
- Behati PrinslooNamibian model
Famous people with Life Path 2
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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 August 12, 1935. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
2 · Diplomat☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296177 (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 Changing Windows, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Cazale 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 Cazale.
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.
- 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 was John Cazale's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Cazale's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
