John Cornforth
John Cornforth (born September 7, 1917, Sydney, Australia; died 2013), was an Australian-British chemist. Cornforth's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Knight Bachelor and Copley Medal.
John Cornforth’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Snake, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Snake, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with John
John Cornforth’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
The SSA recorded 51,852 American boys and 253 girls named John in 1917: 1st among boys and 397th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
9
Soul Urge · meaning
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
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
7 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
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 1917, 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 Corday-Morgan Prize came in 1953, when John Cornforth was 36.
The schooling ran through Sydney Boys High School and St Catherine's College.
John Cornforth lies at Clayton Wood Natural Burial Ground.
On the family side, John Cornforth was married Rita Harradence.
Wikipedia files John Cornforth under Chemists from Sydney, Australian deaf people and British scientists with disabilities.
Evan Rachel Wood (1987) and Ariarne Titmus (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Sydney Boys High School, St Catherine's College and University of Sydney
- Awards
- Copley Medal (1982), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975) and Davy Medal (1968)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Buried at
- Clayton Wood Natural Burial Ground
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
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 beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. John gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. John creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. John is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means John does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Cornforth
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sydney 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 Sydney that night
Computed for 33.87°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sydney was Nunki, in Sagittarius, 71.5° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Canopus in Carina, and 68 catalog stars were up in all.
From 33.9°S, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 59% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Sydney, Australia
The death is recorded at Brighton, Brighton and Hove in 2013.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Cornforth: 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
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →John Cornforth at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
John Cornforth's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 7, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
John Cornforth was born on September 7, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
John Cornforth's birth date, September 7, 1917, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Cornforth's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- John Cornforth combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableMercurysquarePluto1.3° to 1.5° orb
John’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileSaturn1.3° orb
John’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineUranus1.5° to 2.8° orb
John’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.0° to 2.2° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.6° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter6.5° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.2° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 1.7° to 15.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 28°16′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 18°01′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 6°18′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 27°45′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 3°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Neptune 0.3°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.7°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.5°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.6°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.8°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4 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.
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.7°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.0°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°
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John’s cards
Computed from September 7, 1917. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q135154 (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 Unknown (Associated Press), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Cornforth at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Cornforth.
Quick answers about John Cornforth’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Cornforth?
- John Cornforth was a Virgo: born September 7, 1917, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was John Cornforth's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 7, 1917 birth.
- What was John Cornforth's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Cornforth's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Cornforth's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Cornforth's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
