
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy (born August 14, 1867, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom; died 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Galsworthy is best remembered for Saint's Progress, Strife and The Silver Box. Galsworthy's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature.
John Galsworthy’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Your match with John
John Galsworthy’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
No US figure exists for 1867 — the SSA series begins 13 years later. John opened it at 1st among boys and 229th among girls, 9,655 American boys and 46 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What John’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
The record
What sets John apart
Mila Kunis (1983) and Halle Berry (1966) 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 warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of John is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, John needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What John needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. John creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: John is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. John fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Galsworthy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kingston upon Thames 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 Kingston upon Thames that night
Computed for 51.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kingston upon Thames was Eltanin, in Draco, 84.3° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 51.4°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Kingston upon Thames at all: they sit past the −38.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 12° down.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Jupiter · 3-planet stellium in Leo · T-square onto Pluto
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Generous with the spotlight, mostly.
John Galsworthy's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 14, 1867, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Rabbit
Gentle, and never cornered.
John Galsworthy was born on August 14, 1867, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 8
Turns effort into standing.
John Galsworthy's birth date, August 14, 1867, 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 Galsworthy's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- John Galsworthy combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° 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
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 6.3° orb
John’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto1.8° orb
John’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunsquareSaturn2.8° to 3.8° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileMars3.2° to 3.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.6° to 4.7° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.8° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune4.5° to 5.7° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.7° to 6.9° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.8° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus6.8° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 25°45′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 25°37′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 5°09′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 2°55′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 6°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Mercury 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.8°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.7°
John’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
Stellium in Leo · 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.
T-square onto Sun · Saturn, Pluto, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Jupiter · Mercury, Mars, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.0°
- Mars semi-square Saturn 0.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.5°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.9°
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
John’s cards
Computed from August 14, 1867. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q82248 (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 authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Galsworthy at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Galsworthy.
Quick answers about John Galsworthy’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Galsworthy?
- John Galsworthy was a Leo: born August 14, 1867, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was John Galsworthy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 14, 1867 birth.
- What was John Galsworthy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Galsworthy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Galsworthy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Galsworthy's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.







