
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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 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
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John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Clarke's date-only chart is Sun square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Clarke combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for John Clarke, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° Sagittarius 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.
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
John’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.1° orb
John’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareMars3.5° to 5.2° orb
John’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionPluto4.3° to 4.8° orb
John’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus4.4° orb
John’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunsquareUranus4.8° to 5.8° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° orb
John’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareMars5.2° to 5.6° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysquareUranus5.8° to 6.9° orb
John’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 10°44′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has John performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresAquarius 16°52′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. John is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosCapricorn 5°06′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. John is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°43′ (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 LilithGemini 7°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of John that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- 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°
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. ♅ Uranus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: John is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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.
Stellium 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 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.
- Saturn quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Clarke, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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John’s cards
Every card is computed from February 10, 1942, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for John Clarke, 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 Q555849, 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 UC Berkeley, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Clarke at Wikipedia.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Snake.
- 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 time was John Clarke 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 is John Clarke's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the February 10, 1942 birth date.
- What is John Clarke's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 10, 1942 birth date.
- 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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