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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), and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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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

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John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is 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.

John’s birth-night reference starSchedarwarm orange · CassiopeiaSchedar, in Cassiopeia. A warm orange star, 87.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Schedar →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 50.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

John Grant in 15 seconds

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

Stubborn, and usually right.

John Grant was born on November 22, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.

Life Path 11

Bright signal, thin skin.

John Grant's birth date, November 22, 1949, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.

What stands out in John’s chart

John’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for John Grant, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.3° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.6° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.1° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.4° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.7° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 2.6° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSun in Scorpio · 29°52′☉29°Moon in Sagittarius · 29°48′☽29°Mercury in Sagittarius · 0°11′☿0°Venus in Capricorn · 17°01′♀17°Mars in Virgo · 14°23′♂14°Jupiter in Capricorn · 28°29′♃28°Saturn in Virgo · 18°10′♄18°Uranus in Cancer · 4°16′ · retrograde♅℞4°Neptune in Libra · 16°28′♆16°Pluto in Leo · 18°12′ · retrograde♇℞18°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • 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

    John’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter1.0° to 2.4° orb

    John’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb

    John’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenustrineMars2.4° to 2.9° orb

    John’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.6° to 4.0° orb

    John’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • 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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 11°04′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has John building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 8°14′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. John is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 16°08′ (moves 0.48° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. John is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • ⚕ HygieaScorpio 10°39′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has John carrying stress in the body until it is named.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 24°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has John carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Eros trine Neptune 0.3°
  • Eros opposition Pluto 2.1°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

John’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: John is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in John’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • 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°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Grant, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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John’s cards

Every card is computed from November 22, 1949, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

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Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

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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

No birth time is on public record for John Grant, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3181632, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

The same John Grant at Wikipedia.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Ox.
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 time was John Grant born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What was John Grant's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the November 22, 1949 birth date.
What was John Grant's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 22, 1949 birth date.
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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