John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (born March 13, 1899, Middletown, United States; died 1980), was an American physicist. Vleck's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Lorentz Medal and Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with John
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal 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
John ranked 1st among boys and 462nd among girls in 1899, the year of this birth, with 6,990 American boys and 40 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.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 3: drive against voice.
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 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
The record
What sets John apart
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1929, at 30.
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Madison Central High School shaped the training.
The grave is at Forest Hill Cemetery.
On the family side, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was born to Edward Burr Van Vleck.
Wikipedia's editors put John Hasbrouck Van Vleck under Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford, Burials at Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin) and Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
Kaya Scodelario (1992) and Coco Gauff (2004) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison Central High School and Harvard University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1977), Lorentz Medal (1974) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1929)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Buried at
- Forest Hill Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 68
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of John is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
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 as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let John be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. John creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: John is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Hasbrouck Van Vleck
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Middletown 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 Middletown that night
Computed for 41.56°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Middletown at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Middletown on any night.
The Moon, 7% lit at waxing crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 34° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Middletown, United States
The death is recorded at Cambridge, Middlesex County in 1980.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for John Hasbrouck Van Vleck: 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
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · No Earth planets
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 →Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 13, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was born on March 13, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's birth date, March 13, 1899, 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 Hasbrouck Van Vleck's date-only chart is Sun square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 25° 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
stableSunsquareSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
John’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.4° to 1.4° orb
John’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter0.7° to 1.8° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus1.2° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableSuntrineMars1.9° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 3.0° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.7° to 5.8° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto5.7° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 12°57′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 10°51′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 8°33′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 16°37′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 1°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Venus 0.1°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.8°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.1°
- Eros opposition Jupiter 1.2°
- Ceres square Venus 2.4°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.9°
John’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in John’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Saturn, Neptune, SunAn 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.
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°
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Born in Pig years
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Other Gilded Seekers
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
John’s cards
Computed from March 13, 1899. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193655 (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 JH_van_Vleck_and_HBG_Casimir,_1974.jpg: Unknown derivative work: Materialscientist, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Hasbrouck Van Vleck 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 Hasbrouck Van Vleck.
Quick answers about John Hasbrouck Van Vleck’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck?
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was a Pisces: born March 13, 1899, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 13, 1899 birth.
- What was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Hasbrouck Van Vleck's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
