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John Clarke

John Clarke (born February 10, 1942, Cambridge, United Kingdom), aged 84, is a British physicist (born 1942). Clarke's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Fritz London Award and Hughes Medal.

John Clarke’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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John Clarke’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Scholar

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, 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 1942, John came 3rd among boys and 475th among girls, carried by 66,043 American boys and 241 girls.

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

1 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

The record

What sets John apart

Mia Khalifa (1993) and Lee Hsien Loong (1952) 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 two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of John is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

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 as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let John be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. John is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of John leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means John is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
John

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
John

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
John

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
John

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
John

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
John

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cambridge on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

John’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 83.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 35.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Cambridge that night

Computed for 52.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cambridge was Capella, in Auriga, 83.6° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

Cambridge sits at 52.2°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −37.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 27° below the horizon, Moon down and 26% lit at waning crescent.

How unusual John's chart is

Chart pattern score

52 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Aquarius · No Water planets · Venus retrograde

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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John Clarke in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

John Clarke's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 10, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Water Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

John Clarke was born on February 10, 1942, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 1

Front of the line, alone.

John Clarke's birth date, February 10, 1942, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in John’s chart

John’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.9° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.1° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.9° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.6° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.1° orbMoon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 4° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 4.3° orbSaturn fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 4.4° orbSun in Aquarius · 21°05′☉21°Moon in Sagittarius · 15°26′☽15°Mercury in Aquarius · 20°01′ · retrograde☿℞20°Venus in Aquarius · 8°48′ · retrograde♀℞8°Mars in Taurus · 15°41′♂15°Jupiter in Gemini · 11°26′♃11°Saturn in Taurus · 21°57′♄21°Uranus in Taurus · 26°22′♅26°Neptune in Virgo · 29°27′ · retrograde♆℞29°Pluto in Leo · 4°17′ · retrograde♇℞4°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 2.2° orb

    John’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn0.4° to 1.3° orb

    John’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn1.3° to 2.5° orb

    John’s mind grinds against their discipline.

  • stableVenustrineJupiter2.4° to 2.9° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune3.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars3.5° to 5.2° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto4.3° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.4° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus4.8° to 5.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars5.2° to 5.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus5.8° to 6.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water0 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal0 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable3 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 ℞Leo 10°44′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 16°52′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 5°06′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 7°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.4°
  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 1.0°
  • Ceres square Mars 1.2°
  • Chiron opposition Venus 1.9°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 2.7°

John’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects

Configurations in John’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Saturn quintile Pluto 0.3°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°

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John’s cards

Computed from February 10, 1942. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Scholar

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q555849 (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 UC Berkeley, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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 Clarke.

Quick answers about John Clarke’s chart

How old is John Clarke?
John Clarke is 84 years old, born February 10, 1942 in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is John Clarke?
John Clarke is an Aquarius: born February 10, 1942, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is John Clarke's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 10, 1942 birth.
What is John Clarke's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is John Clarke's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is John Clarke's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is John Clarke's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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