John Clute
John Clute (born September 12, 1940, Toronto, Canada), aged 86, is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary critic (born 1940). Clute's honours include Hugo Award for Best Related Work, Pilgrim Award and World Fantasy Special Award: Professional.
John Clute’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with John
John Clute’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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
Of the names registered in 1940, John came 3rd among boys and 463rd among girls, carried by 54,786 American boys and 208 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
5
Soul Urge · freedom
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
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 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, 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
John Clute took the Pilgrim Award in 1994, at 54.
New York University shaped the training.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for John Clute: Canadian male novelists, British emigrants to Canada and Speculative fiction editors.
The same date carries Joachim Frank. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- New York University
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Related Work (1998), Pilgrim Award (1994) and Ignotus Award for Best Non-Fiction Book (1997)
- Nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Anthology and Otherwise Award
- Citizenship
- Canada and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 16
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of John is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore John openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. John creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: John is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Clute
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Toronto 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 Toronto that night
Computed for 43.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Toronto at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.9° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
From 43.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −46.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 88% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 15° down.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · Only two elements
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
John Clute's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 12, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
John Clute was born on September 12, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
John Clute's birth date, September 12, 1940, 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 Clute's date-only chart is Venus conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Clute combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° 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
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.6° orb
John’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
John’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
John’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 7.5° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn0.4° to 1.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.9° to 2.6° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.0° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars4.3° to 4.6° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn4.7° to 5.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.9° to 5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.
⚷ ChironCancer 28°41′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 19°45′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 24°07′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 0°11′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Neptune 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 2.6°
- Eros square Mercury 2.7°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun8 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 6 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Mars, NeptuneThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.0°
Born the same day as John
Joachim Frank was born on September 12, 1940 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Toronto, at 43.7°N, nothing below −46.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Dragon years
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Other Steadfast Storytellers
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
John’s cards
Computed from September 12, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3133864 (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 Johan Jönsson (Julle), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Clute at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Clute.
Quick answers about John Clute’s chart
- How old is John Clute?
- John Clute is 86 years old, born September 12, 1940 in Toronto, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is John Clute?
- John Clute is a Virgo: born September 12, 1940, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is John Clute's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 12, 1940 birth.
- What is John Clute's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is John Clute's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John Clute's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John Clute's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
