John G. Thompson
John G. Thompson (born October 13, 1932, Ottawa, United States), aged 94, is an American mathematician. Thompson is best known for Thompson subgroup, Thompson order formula and Thompson factorization. Thompson's honours include De Morgan Medal, Wolf Prize in Mathematics and National Medal of Science.
John G. Thompson’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Water Monkey, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with John
John G. Thompson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, 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
John ranked 3rd among boys and 374th among girls in 1932, the year of this birth, with 48,624 American boys and 298 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
9
Soul Urge · meaning
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
11 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets John apart
Margaret Thatcher (1925) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989) 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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of John is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, John runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What John needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. John creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: John is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. John is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means John fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 G. Thompson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ottawa 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 Ottawa that night
Computed for 38.61°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Ottawa was Scheat, in Pegasus, 74.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Ottawa on any night.
Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Pluto · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
John G. Thompson's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 13, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
John G. Thompson was born on October 13, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
John G. Thompson's birth date, October 13, 1932, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John G. Thompson's date-only chart is Sun opposition Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- John G. Thompson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Aries 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
stableSunoppositionUranus0.7° to 1.8° orb
John’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.1° to 2.7° orb
John’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.3° to 2.4° orb
John’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranussquarePluto2.0° orb
stableSunsquarePluto2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto4.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.6° to 6.5° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 3.4° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 4.1° to 16.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 27°52′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 17°13′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 4°26′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 10°58′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 18°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Saturn 0.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.5°
- Eros conjunction Venus 2.9°
- Ceres square Sun 3.0°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in John’s chart
T-square onto Pluto · Sun, Uranus, PlutoAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
More people like John
Other mathematicians
- David Mumford1937
- Stephen Smale1930
- Grigory Margulis1946
- René Thom1923
- Michael Freedman1951
- John Milnor1931
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John’s cards
Computed from October 13, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313168 (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 Renate Schmid, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John G. Thompson 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 G. Thompson.
Quick answers about John G. Thompson’s chart
- How old is John G. Thompson?
- John G. Thompson is 94 years old, born October 13, 1932 in Ottawa, United States.
- What zodiac sign is John G. Thompson?
- John G. Thompson is a Libra: born October 13, 1932, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is John G. Thompson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 13, 1932 birth.
- What is John G. Thompson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is John G. Thompson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is John G. Thompson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is John G. Thompson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
