John Grant
John Grant (born November 22, 1949, Aberdeen, United Kingdom; died 2020), was a Scottish writer. Grant is best remembered for The Book of Time. Grant's honours include Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
John Grant’s zodiac sign was Scorpio or Sagittarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Earth Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Earth Ox, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with John
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 588th among girls in 1949, the year of this birth, with 81,178 American boys and 199 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
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 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Terracotta
The record
What sets John apart
Scarlett Johansson (1984) and Mark Ruffalo (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show John you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
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 steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: 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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Aberdeen 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 Aberdeen that night
Computed for 57.15°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Aberdeen at 9 p.m. that evening: Schedar of Cassiopeia, within 2.9° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 57.1°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Nothing below −32.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Aberdeen on any night.
The Moon, 9% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 41° below the horizon.
How unusual John's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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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Scorpio or Sagittarius Sun
John Grant was born on a day when the Sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Ox
Earth OxStubborn, and usually right.
John Grant was born on November 22, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
John Grant's birth date, November 22, 1949, 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 Grant's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.6° orb
John’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.1° to 1.0° orb
John’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.7° to 1.6° orb
John’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.0° to 1.8° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.0° to 2.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb
stableVenustrineMars2.4° to 2.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.6° to 4.0° orb
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 4.4° to 18.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 4.5° to 18.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 11°04′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 8°14′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 16°08′ (moves 0.48° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 10°39′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 24°27′ (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°
- Eros opposition Pluto 2.1°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 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.
- Mercury quintile Saturn 0.0°
- Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.9°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.6°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.8°
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
John’s cards
Computed from November 22, 1949. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3181632 (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.
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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by John Grant.
Quick answers about John Grant’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Grant?
- John Grant was born on a day when the Sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was John Grant's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 22, 1949 birth.
- What was John Grant's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Grant's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Grant's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Grant's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
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